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24 ORGANIZATIONS AND EXPERTS CALL ON GOOGLE TO STOP AMPLIFYING AND PROFITING FROM CLIMATE DENIAL CONTENT
24 ORGANIZATIONS AND EXPERTS CALL ON GOOGLE TO STOP AMPLIFYING AND PROFITING FROM CLIMATE DENIAL CONTENT Climate groups and academics call on Google to extend its climate disinformation policy, demonetize and stop amplifying climate denial content, and collaborate with NGOs and academic experts to update its policies. Download report Find out more In a letter to […]
Warnings of Doom, Amid a Smokescreen of Denial and Distraction
Warnings of Doom, Amid a Smokescreen of Denial and Distraction Photo Source reurinkjan | CC BY 2.0 The Trump administration predictably tried to bury the dire warnings contained in the fourth National Climate Assessment by releasing it the day after Thanksgiving, when many people would be distracted by the mass consumption frenzy known as Black Friday. […]
COP24: Climate Science Denial, Disinformation and Fake News at the UN Climate Talks
COP24: Climate Science Denial, Disinformation and Fake News at the UN Climate Talks In an age of “fake news” and disinformation, in which climate science deniers have been elected to the head of some of the world’s largest governments, the UN climate talks continue to act as a stage for those who wish to cast […]
Climate Change Bites Big Business
Climate Change Bites Big Business “Electoral politics is not the solution to the Earth-threatening problems we face.” – Jeffrey St. Clair, 10 August 2018, Counter Punch There is now no non-violent way to reverse climate change. Even with morally unrestrained action, it is probable that there is now no physical possibility of reversing climate change. […]
Remember What the Climate War Is About
Remember What the Climate War Is About Lately, I’ve been wondering if the battles being fought to maintain federal energy and environment policies and programs are clouding the nation’s collective understanding of what the war being waged against the Trump administration is really about? Before suggesting what it—the metaphorical war of which I write–should be […]
Climate Crisis Clobbers Trump Denials
Climate Crisis Clobbers Trump Denials Harken! A Trump appointee agrees that climate change is not a hoax. Granted, that is unimaginable, but it is the real thing. An ongoing climate crisis in America’s Southwest brings this rare specimen into the limelight. The climate crisis star of the year is Brenda Burman, commissioner of The Bureau […]
Ignorance and Greed: Trump’s War on the Environment
Ignorance and Greed: Trump’s War on the Environment Under Donald Trump, the environment has been the hardest hit of any sector of society, carried out by executive actions, the overturning of Obama-era regulations, and the enactment of new rules via cabinet review. This assault is occurring just as NASA reports that we’ve just had another […]
The faux insurgency of the climate change deniers and the need for closure Climate change deniers like to style themselves as latter-day Copernicuses and Galileos, lone visionaries bucking the established wisdom of the ages embodied back then in the teachings of the Catholic Church. There is a certain appeal to imagining oneself as isolated and embattled but unbowed. […]
Groups Hand 360,000 Signatures to Justice Department Calling for “Exxon Knew” Probe
Groups Hand 360,000 Signatures to Justice Department Calling for “Exxon Knew” Probe With the hottest October in world history recorded recently, a slew of advocacy groups have delivered 360,000 petition signatures to the U.S. Department of Justice, calling for a probe of petrochemical industry giant ExxonMobil’s history of funding climate change denial despite what the company knew about climate science. The […]
Exxon: We knew climate change was a real threat (but we didn’t want you to)
Exxon: We knew climate change was a real threat (but we didn’t want you to) One of the big complaints about climate change deniers is that they don’t fund any genuine primary scientific research into climate change. We are used to deniers extracting out-of-context passages from existing legitimate climate research and pretending those passages support […]
Chicken Little Meet the Friends of Science
Chicken Little Meet the Friends of Science Canada’s leading climate conspiracy theorists, the Friends of Science, are out this week with a critique on climate change that would make even Chicken Little blush. In a press release issued Thursday, the Friends of Science state that if plans proceed to move our country away from carbon-intensive fuel sources like oil and coal, “Canada […]
Exclusive: Major Climate Denial Funders Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund Handled $479 Million Of Dark Money
Exclusive: Major Climate Denial Funders Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund Handled $479 Million Of Dark Money More than $470 million of cash flowing into a key funding arm of the climate science denial movement in the United States is untraceable, a DeSmog investigation has found. Sister organisations Donors Trust (DT) and Donors Capital Fund (DCF) declared an income of […]
Charles Koch Admits Climate Change is Happening, Then Denies the Problem
Charles Koch Admits Climate Change is Happening, Then Denies the Problem As the nation warily watches every Republican presidential candidate kiss the ring of billionaire donor Charles Koch for a shot at his network’s $300,000,000 pool of presidential cash, Charles Koch did something unusual. Last week’s USAToday interview with Charles Koch noted his shifting opinion on what he calls […]
