DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2020

Read time: 11 mins Climate science deniers at think tanks with fossil fuel ties are doubling down on attempts to undermine the bases for regulating climate pollution, from attacking estimated carbon pollution costs used in regulatory analyses to urging the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2020

The very next day, the American Council on Science and Health ( ACSH ) published an article titled, “Coronavirus in the U.S.: ACSH is one of several organizations promoting climate science denial that are now spreading misinformation on the coronavirus, with potentially deadly consequences. How Bad Will It Be?”. “ it began. “No,

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Read time: 15 mins This article was published as part of the launch of DeSmog’s Agribusiness Database , where you can find a record of companies and organisations’ current messaging on climate change, lobbying around climate action, and histories of climate science denial. The speaker?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Read time: 17 mins This story is a part of Covering Climate Now’s week of coverage focused on stories with the theme of 'climate politics'. Covering Climate Now is a global journalism collaboration committed to strengthening coverage of the climate story. .

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 7, 2020

Read time: 1 min You thought you knew the story of climate denial, but what about its connection to cigarette filter tips or public broadcasting? Listen to the Drilled podcast and you’ll learn fascinating new details about the propaganda campaign of the century: the creation of climate denial.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 25, 2020

is suing the four largest investor-owned oil and gas companies — BP , Chevron, ExxonMobil , and Shell — for allegedly misleading consumers about climate change, including historically undermining climate science and even now using deceptive advertising about the companies’ role in leading solutions to the climate crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Climate and energy policy experts say electrifying vehicles is necessary to mitigate these emissions. Tags: electric vehicles Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) climate science denial ExxonMobil Koch Union of Concerned Scientists Energy and Policy Institute In the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2020

Read time: 8 mins You don’t have to look far to find misinformation about climate science continuing to spread online through prominent social media channels like YouTube. That’s despite the overwhelming scientific consensus that humans are driving the climate crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 14, 2020

Science gets a lot of respect these days. Seven in 10 Americans think the benefits from science outweigh the harms, and nine in 10 think science and technology will create more opportunities for future generations. On the other hand, Americans are surrounded by a rising tide of misinformation and fake science.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Tags: American Institute for Economic Research oregon petition COVID-19 COVID Denial This think tank, funded in part through a corporate investment firm with holdings in major oil and petrochemical companies, operates a network for the international business community that partners with other institutions backed by Koch and fossil fuel cash.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Read time: 4 mins Today, DeSmog and the Climate Investigations Center are co-launching a large collection of documents from Exxon's Canadian subsidiary, Imperial Oil, that DeSmog collected from a company archive in Calgary over the past several years. Tags: Imperial Oil #ExxonKnew ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM)

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Read time: 3 mins This article was published as part of the launch of DeSmog’s Agribusiness Database , where you can find a record of companies and organisations’ messaging on climate change, lobbying around climate action, and histories of climate science denial. Tags: Agribusiness Database

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

This story originally appeared in The Nation and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story. The country is paying a deadly price for its conservative politicians’ climate denialism. .

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 24, 2020

Read time: 7 mins Minnesota has officially joined the climate accountability movement with the announcement on Wednesday, June 24 of a groundbreaking lawsuit against fossil fuel behemoths such as ExxonMobil and Koch Industries and the nation's largest oil and gas lobbying group for alleged deception on climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 27, 2020

Read time: 5 mins Electric cars are better for the climate than gas-powered vehicles in nearly every part of the world. This study directly refutes myths perpetuated by climate science deniers and EV antagonists, who claim that EV s are really not all that green.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The investigation , published Monday, October 26, also describes how the auto giants largely dismissed those risks and actively lobbied to block action and fund climate science denial campaigns.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Read time: 3 mins Organisations promoting climate science denial and anti-environmentalism in Europe share the same rhetoric, narratives and right-wing links as their US counterparts, new research has found.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 9, 2020

Read time: 6 mins Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has doubled down on his refusal to strengthen his administration’s approach to climate policy as his country burns. Tags: infowars Newswars alex jones myron ebell patrick michaels Tony Abbott global warming policy foundation christopher monckton rupert murdoch

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Jacobson questions the climate and health benefits of carbon capture technology against simply switching to renewable energy sources like wind and solar. Tags: carbon capture ccs clean coal renewable energy Mark Jacobson Read time: 7 mins New research from Stanford University professor Mark Z.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Read time: 4 mins DeSmog was launched in January 2006 to call out the public relations industry for working with fossil fuel industry clients to sow doubt and seed misinformation about climate science.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 11, 2019

Read time: 4 mins Climate science deniers are becoming desperate as their numbers diminish in the face of incontrovertible evidence that human-caused global warming is putting our future at risk. Tags: climate science denial Heartland Institute cornwall alliance ross mckitrick frank luntz

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Climate Change Countermovement Coalitions 1989-2015 , author Robert Brulle, looks at “key political coalitions that worked to oppose climate action. Climate Change Countermovement Coalitions 1989-2015 , author Robert Brulle, looks at “key political coalitions that worked to oppose climate action.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 30, 2019

Read time: 6 mins Back in 2015, if you’d searched YouTube for information about climate change, the videos offered up might have left you with a warped sense of the state of climate science and the degree of scientific certainty that people are heating the world’s climate, a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Communication suggests.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Read time: 7 mins Last month, 11,258 scientists from virtually every country in the world published a study on climate change, writing that they collectively declared “clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency.”.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Read time: 12 mins Ten years ago, leading climate scientists at the University of East Anglia had a mass of email correspondence stolen from their computers and broadcast around the world, in what became known as ‘Climategate’. Michaels Steve McIntrye ross mckitrick myron ebell

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 13, 2020

The first is a literature review led by Stanford’s Gabrielle Wong-Parodi that examines psychological studies on climate denial in the U.S. Although the press release is promisingly headlined as “ pathways to changing the minds of climate deniers ,” we remain skeptical that there’s any real way to change a denier’s mind.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Tags: Imperial Oil ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) climate science denial oil industry public relations Gasoline “The present trend in legislation will require substantial expenditures to reduce emissions and waste discharge for all facilities and reduce the impact on the environment of the products we sell.”.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Read time: 8 mins DeSmog UK ’s first editor, Brendan Montague, shares his personal experience of investigating climate science deniers at the time of Climategate. Tags: Climategate Nigel Lawson Christopher Monkton S. Fred Singer Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) Benny Peiser institute of economic affairs

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2019

Read time: 4 mins By Tim Radford for Climate News Network. The only period in which the world’s climate has changed, everywhere and at the same time, is right now. Tags: climate science little ice age

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Read time: 4 mins It may come as something of a surprise to regular readers of DeSmog that we are joining more than 250 other news outlets in a global collaboration called “ Covering Climate Now ,” led by The Nation and the Columbia Journalism Review.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Read time: 5 mins From its tense soundtrack and flickering images of suspicious-looking wires, you could mistake the BBC ’s latest documentary on climate change for some kind of cyber spy thriller. All because I decided to study applied math and physics, and move into climate science.”. And that’s kind of what it is. .

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Department of Education and the National Science Foundation, meet Next Generation Science standards. The curriculum unit, Engineering for the Earth , covers Earth systems through lessons on natural resources, processes, weather, climate and landforms.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2020

Environmental advocates say Pennsylvania’s participation in RGGI would be a “game-changer,” but climate science deniers and other fossil fuel allies claim it would be too costly and kill jobs in a state where the coal and fracked gas industries have long dominated the energy landscape.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 2, 2020

Read time: 3 mins In its latest end of year accounts, the Global Warming Policy Foundation ( GWPF ), the UK ’s most prominent climate science denial group, has reported that its total income has increased by around £75,000 over the last year – an increase of almost 20 percent.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 7, 2020

Read time: 4 mins This article originally appeared in The Guardian and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story. It too is now threatened by climate change. By Michael Mann. I witnessed this firsthand.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

s largest oil and gas industry lobbying group, the American Petroleum Institute ( API ) , was involved with a communications plan whose goal was promoting “uncertainties in climate science” among the American public. In September, API began running TV , billboard, and social media ads promoting natural gas as a climate solution.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Read time: 11 mins When written histories remember 2020 as the year that America’s anti-science obsessions completed their evolution from dangerous to deadly, the premier of Climate Hustle 2: Rise of the Climate Monarchy will be deserving of at least a footnote. Tags: climate hustle marc morano CFACT

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