Haydn Washington and John Cook’s work has wise words for climate change activists and deniers alike, says Jeremy Williams
… Climate Change Denial Jeremy Williams | 12th May 2011 Reviews Climate Change Denial Science Ecology Books Reviews climate-change-denial.jpg Haydn Washington and John Cook’s …
It’s easy to feel so overwhelmed by the problems facing our planet that we turn away to whatever will cheer us. Pat Thomas shows us the pattern of climate change denial
… How to beat denial - a 12-step plan Pat Thomas | 1st December 2006 News Denial Climate Change Stern Review Stern … Thomas shows us the pattern of climate change denial We live in a world haunted by the issue …
Lord Lawson was invited onto the BBC Radio 4 Today programme to debate the risk of climate change. Scientists, former BBC journalists and politicians have all questioned the wisdom of this decision. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports
… Lawson's climate denial met with 'rapid, referenced and robust' … | 14th August 2017 News Climate Change Denial Science BBC Today unknown.jpeg Lord … today tours the newsrooms advocating climate denial and an isolationist Brexit. The release …
What is the future for UK climate policy under May’s Brexit deal - ask UK attendees of the COP24 in Poland.
… Brexit and climate denial at COP24 Molly Scott-Cato | 10th … December 2018 Comment Brexit Climate Change Denial COP24 People's Vote … evidence of the close links between climate denial and the Brexit campaign. Many of the …
Don’t pronounce too harshly upon those who seem not to care about the environment, advises Renée Lertzman. They may only be paralysed by the size of the problem
… Renée Lertzman | 19th June 2008 Comment Denial Apathy Anxieties Psychoanalysis Global … a close second to apathy is the topic of denial; the stunning way in which people can … if the ways we are thinking about apathy and denial are themselves misguided, and …
ExxonMobil has been funding high quality science while also funding and supporting climate denial. So should scientists continue to accept money from oil companies and other vested interests? KATHARINE HAYHOE, a climate science professor, discusses her own early ExxonMobil funding and the ethical issues it raises
… Hayhoe | 6th September 2017 News Oil Denial Exxon Climate Change 405218.jpg … while also funding and supporting climate denial. So should scientists continue to … follow this familiar path: supporting science denial with the left hand, while giving to …
Anti-EU sentiment and climate change denialism go hand in hand, writes Kyla Mandel. But why? Partly it's down to a belief in unconstrained national sovereignty and economic freedom - threatened by the EU and climate change alike. But it's also because out of the EU, the UK could advance the anti-environment agenda the deniers so passionately believe in, with no one to get in the way.
… Anti-EU sentiment and climate change denialism go hand in hand, writes Kyla Mandel. … secretary Maria Eagle for letting his climate denial " blind him " to the dangers of future … instrumental in building up British climate denial .) And, shortly after the Paris climate …
Campaigner Georgina Downs has scored a significant victory in her 12 year battle against the UK Government. But DEFRA Ministers have still failed to secure protection from pesticides for people in the countryside.
… approved for agricultural use in the UK! Denial of the problem Until now the Government …
Lord Ridley, a card-carrying member of Britain's 1%, led the Northern Rock bank to collapse. Now he's causing another kind of catastrophe: the coal mined off his Northumberland estate is causing 1% of the UK's CO2 emissions. No wonder he's a climate sceptic!
… Lord Ridley is a powerhouse of climate denial in Britain - and a leading contender … large vested interest in stoking climate denial." Ridley declares an interest in coal …
Mainstream media reporting of the recent UK storms rapidly degenerated into narratives of blame focused on environmentalists, writes George Marshall. It's time they uncovered the real villains!
… Silence as discussed before on the Climate Denial blog. When climate change was … was originally published on the Climate Denial blog , another of George's creations. …
In his documentary, ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’, Martin Durkin presented the argument that the troposphere – Earth’s upper atmosphere – appeared to be cooler than climate models suggest. Durkin also argued that the global temperature fell in the post-war economic boom, despite rising levels of carbon dioxide.
… March 2007 News Climate Change Global Warming Denial Carbon Dioxide Carbon Dioxide Global …
A wholesale corruption of science underlies the UK Government's insistence that gas from fracking offers a 'low carbon', low cost route to energy abundance, writes Paul Mobbs. On the contrary: it's expensive, over-hyped - and just as bad for climate change as coal.
… 'dodgy dossier' [1] - a straightforward denial of the uncertainties and the likely …
Last week the Upper Tribunal of the Royal Courts of Justice ordered Defra to release key information about the badger cull based on a 'public interest' argument, writes Lesley Docksey. Could this judgment open a new era of transparent and accountable government?
… complicit in torture " . Except that, despite denials, we always have been - and if this is …
Just as 2014 is looking like going down as the hottest year since records began, motor-mouthed climate change deniers are shrinking into the shadows, writes Richard Heasman.
… has led the siren chorus of climate change denial - claiming that a recent plateau in …
A culture of environmental denialism is deeply embedded in the institutions of government, writes Duncan Brack. So how to put that right? How about a powerful new Office for Environmental Responsibility? And an annual 'natural resource budget' complete with bright green box?
… A culture of environmental denialism is deeply embedded in the …
Never mind Cameron's mealy mouthed denials that he or his family benefit from tax havens, writes Donnachadh McCarthy. The real problem is systemic: Britain's entire political establishment has long been owned by tax haven wealth. Finally a senior politician, Jeremy Corbyn, has the courage to stand up to the unaccountable super-rich.
… Never mind Cameron's mealy mouthed denials that he or his family benefit from tax …
The mainstream British media have long acted as cheerleaders for GMOs, but none quite so much as The Times and its disgraced correspondent Matt Ridley, writes Colin Todhunter. His most recent article on the topic is a strange concoction of misrepresentations, falsehoods and blunders dressed up as science, and reflects both his ignorance of the real facts and his deep ideological commitment to corporate profit and power.
… Rock bank and his support for climate change denialism - adheres to the belief that GM …
The shocking death of Zane Gbangbola, killed by toxic gas from a 'forgotten' landfill under his home, exposes the UK's dangerous legacy of contaminated land, writes Paul Mobbs. Without action, these polluted sites will damage health and even kill for centuries to come. But governments, local authorities, landowners and developers are united in a shameful policy of silence and denial.
… united in a shameful policy of silence and denial. In the early hours of 8th February …
Should it be Heathrow or Gatwick? The answer, writes Keith Taylor, is neither. For climate and pollution reasons alone the UK should be scaling back on aviation, and in any case projections of future demand have been monstrously exaggerated. Step 1: a 'frequent flyer' tax on the 15% of people who take 70% of flights.
… in the UK at all is a form of climate change denial. Theresa May has promised to ratify …
In one reality, the government recognises climate change, signs the Paris agreement, and commits to its 1.5C target, writes Matthew Adams. In another, it promises a new London runway that's predicated on sending aviation emissions soaring for decades to come. Now repeat after me: 'Everything will be fine!'
… - as individual and collective forms of denial . It is even claimed that the closer a … and trade unions. These dynamics of denial and displacement are precisely those …
With Trump denying climate change and threatening to reject the Paris Agreement, it's more important than ever for society to hold a firm ethical line, writes Chris Garrard. The last thing we need is our most revered museums and galleries muddying the water by courting the sponsorship of leading climate criminals.
… museum invented a whole new form of climate denial. But with a genuine climate denier …
Would UKIP be riding so high if voters knew of the party's links with powerful right-wing US corporate interests promoting fossil fuels, denying climate change, opposing gun control, and supporting big tobacco, teaching creationism in schools, healthcare privatisation and the lifting of nuclear power regulation? An Ecologist investigation exposes the real UKIP.
… numerous Heartland Institute climate change denial conferences including the 7th - taking …
Seven out of ten Tory MP's think there's no proof that climate change is caused by people, and one in five thinks the idea is 'environmentalist propaganda', a new poll shows. Labour and Lib-Dem MPs are far more likely to accept climate science, but Parliament as a whole is remarkably 'climate sceptic'.
… Conservatives are the party of climate change denial. "Man-made climate change is one of …
The battle for the soul of the Conservative party will intensify on the volatile issue of climate change, write Brendan Montague and Matteo Civillini. Energy Secretary Amber Rudd may be among the Tories' greenest but the 'grey blob' led by Owen Paterson may yet defeat her.
… because Lynton Crosby feared climate denial was going to destroy Tory support among …