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Matt Ridley: My life as a climate change lukewarmer | The Times
2024-03-11 (or before) in Archive Today - web archiveTagged under: Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Disinformation and Misinformation
We must end the Net Zero delusion before it’s too late
2024-03-11 (or before) in The TelegraphEnough of the pretence. The current path threatens our economy, society and democracy, and we urgently need a change of direction
Tagged under: UK Politics | Net Zero | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Disinformation and Misinformation
Institute of Economic Affairs
2024-03-11 (or before) in DeSmogInstitute of Economic Affairs (IEA) Background The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) is a London-based free-market thinktank and educational charity founded in 1955 by the late Sir Antony Fisher and Lord Harris with the mission “to improve understanding of the fundamental institutions of a free society by analysing and expounding the role of markets in solving […]
Tagged under: Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Fish | Disinformation and Misinformation
Now here’s the good news on global warming | The Times
2024-03-11 (or before) in Archive.is - web archiveTagged under: Media | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Disinformation and Misinformation
Nine questions for the Times about Matt Ridley
2024-03-11 (or before) in openDemocracyAs the Times faces serious criticism over its climate change coverage, openDemocracy has some questions for the paper about the coal-baron at the centre of the scandal.
Tagged under: Media | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Disinformation and Misinformation
Mainstream Climate Science: The New Denialism? - Jonathon Porritt
2024-03-07 by in jonathonporritt.comThis is a bit of a long one! So here’s my “Executive Summary” so you can decide whether to commit the time to the rest of it: mainstream climate scientists run the risk of becoming the new climate deniers.
Tagged under: The Paris Agreement | IPCC | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Science | Activism | Disinformation and Misinformation
Exxon CEO blames public for failure to fix climate change
2024-02-28 in The HillThe world isn’t on track to meet its climate goals — and it’s the public’s fault, a leading oil company CEO told journalists. Exxon Mobil Corp. CEO Darren Woods told editors from …
Tagged under: Exxon | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Disinformation and Misinformation
First Thing: Populism imperils fight against climate breakdown, says John Kerry
2024-02-28 in The GuardianUS climate chief hits out at ‘disinformation’ and ‘demagoguery’ by special interests to delay climate action. Plus, the lost 80s song baffling the internet
Tagged under: Politics | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | US Politics | Disinformation and Misinformation
Opinion | Does High-Profile Climate Science Tell the Full Story?
2024-02-27 in The Chronicle of Higher EducationSocial feedbacks and career incentives cause scientists to leave out a lot.
Tagged under: Communication | Science | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Disinformation and Misinformation
Third of UK teenagers believe climate change exaggerated, report shows
2024-01-16 in The GuardianYouTube criticised for amplifying lies about the climate with disinformation videos watched by young people
Tagged under: Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Disinformation and Misinformation
Article 3 – Thank You Trump leans into climate denialism
2024-01-08 in E&E News | Essential Energy and Environment NewsCLIMATEWIRE | Former President Donald Trump isn’t known for his subtlety, especially when it comes to climate change — which […]
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Disinformation and Misinformation
Climate and vaccine misinformation seemed worlds apart – but it turned out the Cranky Uncle was a universal figure
2024-01-06 in The GuardianA game that teaches people how to spot climate misinformation is now being rolled out – with the same cantankerous central character – to combat vaccine hesitancy in the developing world
Tagged under: Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Disinformation and Misinformation | Health | Africa
Don't Fall for Big Oil's Carbon Capture Deceptions
2023-12-05 (or before) by in Scientific AmericanCarbon capture technology is a PR fig leaf designed to help Big Oil delay the phaseout of fossil fuels
Tagged under: Fossil Fuels | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Carbon Capture and Storage | Disinformation and Misinformation
Climate Science Denial Rife at Launch of Jordan Peterson’s ARC Project
2023-11-03 by in DeSmogCanadian climate science denier Jordan Peterson’s new right-wing project launched this week with claims that carbon emissions have “declined” and that the climate crisis is a “secular religion”. The three-day Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in London featured speeches from UK Cabinet ministers Michael Gove and Kemi Badenoch, and culminated with a high-profile event […]
Tagged under: Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Disinformation and Misinformation
Revealed: the industry figures behind ‘declaration of scientists’ backing meat eating
2023-10-27 in The GuardianDocument used to target top EU officials over environmental and health policies but climate experts view it as propaganda
Tagged under: Health | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Disinformation and Misinformation
Unfounded concerns about photovoltaic module toxicity and waste are slowing decarbonization - Nature Physics
2023-10-05 in NatureUnsubstantiated claims that fuel growing public concern over the toxicity of photovoltaic modules and their waste are slowing their deployment. Clarifying these issues will help to facilitate the decarbonization that our world depends on.
Tagged under: Solar Energy | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Disinformation and Misinformation
Climate Science Denial Looms Large in GB News Linked ‘ARC’ Venture
2023-09-05 by in DeSmog“The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice”. This Martin Luther King quote was used by Conservative peer Baroness Stroud to introduce the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC), which launched in March. Set up by the owners of GB News and involving “senior leaders from politics, media, culture, business, and […]
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Disinformation and Misinformation | Climate Justice
Texas fracking billionaire brothers fuel rightwing media with millions of dollars
2023-09-05 in The GuardianFarris and Dan Wilks’ deep pockets fund climate denialism education, conservative politicians and pro-fossil fuel projects
Tagged under: Texas | Fracking | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Religion | Disinformation and Misinformation
Meet the Money Behind The Climate Denial Movement
2023-05-20 (or before) by in Smithsonian MagazineNearly a billion dollars a year is flowing into the organized climate change counter-movement
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Economics | Disinformation and Misinformation
Willie Soon
2023-05-09 (or before) in DeSmogWillie Wei-Hock Soon Credentials Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern California (1991). [1] M.Sc. University of Southern California (1987). [1] B.Sc. University of Southern California (1985). [1] Background Willie Wei-Hock Soon is an aerospace engineer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Since 1992, Dr. Soon has been an astronomer at the Mount Wilson Observatory. Soon is also a receiving […]
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Disinformation and Misinformation | California
Big Oil v the World 1 - Denial
2023-04-09 (or before) in YouTubeThe story of what the fossil fuel industry knew about climate change more than four decades ago. Scientists who worked for the biggest oil company in the wor...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Oil Industry | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Disinformation and Misinformation
Steve Milloy
2022-11-12 (or before) by in DeSmogSteven J. Milloy Photo of Steve Milloy by Zach Roberts (c) 2017. Credentials Juris Doctorate, University of Baltimore. Master of Laws (Securities regulation), Georgetown University Law Center. Master of Health Sciences (Biostatistics), Johns Hopkins University School of […]
Tagged under: Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Disinformation and Misinformation
Daily Mail and Telegraph produce 'least accurate climate coverage'
2021-08-18 in The London EconomicRight-wing UK newspapers have some of the least accurate climate change articles in the English-speaking world.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | UK | Media | Disinformation and Misinformation
Login • Instagram
2020-02-24 (or before) in InstagramWelcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.
Tagged under: Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Oil Industry | Climate Change | Disinformation and Misinformation
Opinion: Green energy will gut more than the oil market
2019-11-20 (or before) in Detroit NewsTagged under: Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Oil Industry | Renewable Energy | Climate Change | Disinformation and Misinformation
Exxon sowed doubt about climate crisis, House Democrats hear in testimony
2019-10-23 by Emily Holden in The GuardianSubcommittee laid out four decades of evidence just a day after oil behemoth began a trial over misleading investors
Tagged under: US Politics | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Exxon | Climate Change | Disinformation and Misinformation
St. Greta Spreads the Climate Gospel
2019-09-22 (or before) by in The Wall Street Journal - Breaking News, Business, Financial & Economic News, World News and VideoA movement that believes in sin, penance and salvation doesn’t sound very scientific.
Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Climate Change | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Disinformation and Misinformation
The Truth About Greenhouse Gases | William Happer
2019-03-03 (or before) in First Things | America's Most Influential Journal of Religion & Public LifeThe object of the Author in the following pages has been to collect the most remarkable instances . . . .
Tagged under: Environmental Protection Agency USA | CO2 | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Climate Change | Disinformation and Misinformation
Climate Science Deniers Respond to IPCC 1.5C Report with Anger, Fear, and Distortion
2018-10-11 by in DeSmogA big UN report arrived on Monday, saying in no uncertain terms that the world has up to two decades to massively cut emissions by transforming the global economy if we want to avoid terrible climate impacts. Given the implications of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) findings — government intervention, progressive social policies, more international aid […]
Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Climate Change | Disinformation and Misinformation | Climate Change Impacts | Economics
Atlas Network, the right-wing libertarians | MR Online
2018-09-07 in MR OnlineAram Aharonian and Álvaro Verzi Rangel, co-directors of the Observatory in Communication and Democracy (OCD) and Latin-American Centre of Strategic Analysis (CLAE), wrote a detailed analysis of the Atlas Network and its deep impacts in Latin America. We will be sharing a translated version of this article in parts, the first part is about the network itself and the later parts will address specific country cases.
Tagged under: Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Climate Change Impacts | Disinformation and Misinformation
Anti-coal protesters arrested after storming climate change sceptic's land
2015-10-26 in The GuardianNine held by police after blocking entrance to mine on Lord Ridley’s Northumberland estate and forcing operations to shut down
Tagged under: Coal | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Activism | Disinformation and Misinformation
Ask Randall: Climate Change - Who Are The Real Deniers?
2015-10-16 in Sacred Geometry International - The World Is Our ClassroomIt is too bad that the term “denial” has become such a weasel word, invoked whenever a global warming proponent attempts to avoid any real debate. But what does this name calling say about the intellectual integrity these modern pharisees?
Tagged under: Global Warming | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Climate Change | Disinformation and Misinformation
How To Win The Media War Against Grassroots Activists: Stratfor's Strategies
2013-07-29 in MintPress NewsThe playbook: isolate the radicals, "cultivate" the idealists and "educate" them into becoming realists. Then co-opt the realists., Activists, Bart Mongoven, Global Intelligence Files, Intelligence, radicals, Stratfor, Wikileaks,
Tagged under: Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Activism | Climate Change | Disinformation and Misinformation
How climate change sceptic Ian Plimer dodges valid criticism | James Randerson
2009-12-14 by James Randerson in The GuardianJames Randerson: His book Heaven and Earth has fuelled sceptics the world over, but when I talked to Professor Plimer he sidestepped vital points
Tagged under: Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Climate Change | Disinformation and Misinformation
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