The truth is often extraordinary - perhaps because it is so rare that we are told it. This disturbing speech by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse shines the bright light of truth on the US's huge, shadow-dwelling climate denial industry.
… Time to wake up to the Climate Denial Beast Senator Sheldon Whitehouse | 26th … Change Corporations Politics USA climate-denial-beast.png The truth is often … on the US's huge, shadow-dwelling climate denial industry. I come to the floor today, …
Google and Facebook have both recently quit ALEC, the corporate-funded climate change-denying US body that drafts right-wing laws for adoption by state legislatures. In a letter to Google, ALEC claims it does not deny climate change - an assertion strongly challenged by campaign group Forecast the Facts.
… market policy perspectives for climate change denial." ALEC, a secretive and polluter-funded … organization, is unequivocally a climate denial organization that cloaks its polluter … the quintessential strategy of climate change denial. 3. ALEC's model science education bill …
They promote GMOs, defend toxic chemicals, and attack people who raise concerns about those products as 'anti-science'. But behind the slick 'astroturf' PR fronts lurk some very dubious funders: the same arch-conservative foundations that finance climate science denial. Stacy Malkan exposes the key players in the agribusiness and chemical industry propaganda wars.
… foundations that finance climate science denial. Stacy Malkan exposes the key players … of dark money and the story of climate change denial are the same story: two sides of the … fact that the funders behind climate-science denial also bankroll a network of PR …
The Paris Agreement is a severely inadequate response to the climate crisis the world now faces, writes Pete Dolack, full of vague aspirations and devoid of hard, enforceable commitments. But the impending US withdrawal is still bad news for us all - including the Trump-supporting Koch brothers, set to gain billions from their Alberta tarsands holdings. Short-term profits are a poor exchange for a less livable world, even for those making the money.
… There is a long history of energy company denial of global warming, a well-funded … good for you and so is a warming planet Such denialism is alive and well. A leading global warming denialist lobbying outfit, the Heartland …
We must shift the terms of the climate debate from 'science and denial' to 'rights and power'.
… terms of the climate debate from 'science and denial' to 'rights and power'. There are the … on from the false balance of ‘science’ and ‘denial’ to one about rights and power - the …
The 2011 Fukushima catastrophe is an ongoing disaster whose end only gets more remote as time passes. The government is desperate to get evacuees back into their homes for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, but the problems on the ground, and in the breached reactor vessels, are only getting more serious and costly, as unbelievable volumes of radiation contaminate land, air and ocean.
… relations campaign of disinformation and denial is under way, to brainwash the Japanese … is now under control and OK. Systematic denial of the radiation risks for the people's …
Bob Inglis is a true Republican, writes Zachary Davies Boren. But now he's a ex-Congressman. All because he reckons that climate change is real, serious and demands solutions - among them a carbon tax to stop free riders dumping their trash in the sky. And, he's certain: it's only a matter of time before the GOP will come to see things his way.
… Bob to discuss the genesis of climate change denial in the Republican party, what can be … or accept challenges. Climate change denialism, he believes, is a symptom of the …
How, and why, does the US Right and its evangelical 'Christian' wing campaign for mal-education, ignorance, corporate dominance, and the profligate consumption of fossil fuels? J P Sottile explores an alien planet ...
… for adherence to creationism, climate denialism or the idea that our destinies are … happening." Feeding the specter of doubt But denial is her bread and butter. She, like so …
A federal judge has ruled that the US Environmental Protection Agency is under no obligation to force pesticide makers to disclose supposedly 'inert' ingredients in their products - even where those ingredients are seriously hazardous to health or environment.
… this amended response constitutes a denial of the petitions." EPA then used its change of position and denial of the 2006 petition as a basis to have …
Climate change is perhaps our generation's greatest challenge, and few people are better placed to know it than academics in our top universities, writes James Dyke. But they are still accepting huge sums of fossil fuel money, in the process helping donors in their quest to extract and burn ever more coal, oil and gas. This must stop.
… setting fire to profits in a bonfire of denial. These hydrocarbons cannot be …
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 …
American NGO advocating for young people's future environmental rights has won a first key legal battle in its fight to force the United States to avoid dangerous climate change by cutting its greenhouse gas emissions, writes Sophie Marjanac. If upheld on appeal in higher courts, the ruling has huge implications for us all.
… victory a US magistrate judge has recommended denial of the national government and fossil …
G4S, the UK government outsourcer that supports Israeli security functions in the West Bank, will now supply 'custodial services' to Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, writes Clare Sambrook. Shocked? You shouldn't be. G4S is impervious to public criticism and defies international law with impunity.
… the British Labour government, after years of denial, eventually confirmed in a statement to …
The US is denying huge numbers of black and brown children their chance to achieve their cognitive potential by quietly poisoning them with lead and other toxins, writes Rita Turner. The offense is then compounded by providing the victims deeply unequal educational opportunities, and disregarding their civil rights.
… income inequality, and myriad egregious denials of institutional support for his … quietly poisoning them. We then compound this denial by providing deeply unequal educational …
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 …
With COP21 out of the way there is absolutely no time to lose, Greenpeace director Kumi Naidoo told Pavlos Georgiadis: 'Because by tomorrow, there might be no tomorrow.' We need substantial, structural, systemic change - and this change can only be led by the youth, who are not infected by the political pollution of the past. And whose future is it anyway?
… But our political leaders have been in denial about how serious the problem is." For …
Nuclear giant EDF could be heading towards bankruptcy, writes Paul Brown, as it faces a perfect storm of under-estimated costs for decommissioning, waste disposal and Hinkley C. Meanwhile income from power sales is lagging behind costs, and 17 of its reactors are off-line for safety tests. Yet French and UK governments are turning a blind eye to the looming financial crisis.
… and the company itself, seem to be in denial about this situation. Currently 17 … expected from governments. Despite official denials, however, the calculations of many …
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 …
The NYT's expose of Kevin Folta's PR role as a pro-GMO shill in the employ of Monsanto barely scratched the surface of a huge web of corporate money, influence and intrigue that permeates the US's premier universities and scientific institutions, writes Jonathan Latham - from Harvard and Cornell to the AAAS. Why the reticence to name all the names?
… that solidly contradicts Folta's previous denials of a relationship with Monsanto and …
The US Congress has outlawed the use of aid to Ethiopia to evict tribal peoples in the SW of the country - where violent expulsions are under way to clear land for cash-crop farming.
… direction, and shows that USAID's shameful denials of the human rights abuses being …
Despite the endless rhetoric about a 'nuclear renaissance', there are fewer power reactors today than there were a decade ago, writes Jim Green. The one country with a really big nuclear build program is China, but no one expects it to meet its targets. And with over 200 reactor shut-downs due by 2040, the industry will have to run very hard indeed just to stay put.
… didn't eventuate and isn't likely to. Denial and anger are very much in evidence, …