The coal industry in the United States was the first source of funding for climate denial during the late ‘80s and ‘90s. The industry knew that its survival depended on undermining climate change science and threw its considerable influence and power into funding climate denial. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
… denial. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates Coal produces the most carbon dioxide when burned … in global temperatures. No scientist has ever produced evidence that carbon dioxide does not …
John Blundell of the Institute of Economic Affairs opened the conference Environmental Risk: Perception and Reality in October 1995 - to promote climate denial. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
… businesses should be allowed to continue to produce products that endangered the lives of … to transfer massive quantities of wealth from producer to non-producer nations”. He said the IPCC procedures …
An open letter to the newly merged ethical certification standards, UTZ and Rainforest Alliance, urging them to maintain and improve on their certification criteria as they develop their new standard, from MACKENZIE DENYER, CLARE CARLILE and BRENDAN MONTAGUE
… UTZ in workers’ rights. You have promised to produce a certification that brings ‘together … in its ban on forced labour for certified producers. 2. Maintain UTZ’s rule that a … Agriculture Standard for farms and producer groups involved in crop and cattle …
The European Science and Environment Forum - set up by a staffer at the oil and tobacco funded Institute of Economic Affairs - played a vital role in the early, and vitriolic, attack on climate science. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
… in editing the two climate change books it produced, which echoed my thoughts at the time … the ESEF project that year. The think tank produced a paper for publication in the US and …
The COP26 conference has failed to usher in a new era where capital is constrained to prevent catastrophic climate breakdown.
… price A total of 88m barrels of oil were produced per day globally in 2020. The … a total of 7,741,600,000 tonnes of coal were produced globally in 2020. Again, the pandemic … of any country does not choose what or how it produces but instead is the flotsam of our …
Fakenomics: Oil giant funds climate deniers in vicious assault on hockey stick author Professor Michael Mann.
Exxon funnelled denier cash through think tanks Brendan Montague | 16th October 2018 Comment Fakenomics Exxonmobil Fraser Institute Ross Mckitrick Willie Soon Michael Mann Fakenomics Fakenomics: Oil …
Fakenomics: The tobacco industry’s PR tactics proved inspirational for the army of climate change deniers, writes BRENDAN MONTAGUE
How tobacco shills inspired climate denial Brendan Montague | 17th September 2018 Comment Fakenomics Tobacco Science And Environmental Policy Project Fred Singer Frederick Seitz The Marshall …
Lord Lawson is today the main voice of climate denial in Britain - and 30 years ago he was personally responsible for the British state losing control over our reserves of fossil fuels. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
How Lawson lost control of Britain's fossil fuels Brendan Montague | 13th August 2018 Comment Fakenomics Lord Lawson Fossil Fuels North Sea Oil Conservatives Energy Hayek x Lord Lawson is today the …
Trump and Brexit represent the final battle in a century long war for free market economics - and against the state provision of education, health and welfare services, and regulations designed to protect human health and the natural environment. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
… offered access to government ministers and to produce a report on a 'green Brexit' for the …
Scientists were warning about the dangers of climate change even before America discovered and used oil on an industrial scale. Here, we see how in the 1980s it appeared politicians would rise to the challenges it presents. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
… for the first time and sunk an oil well that produced a hundred thousand barrels a day—“the …
Fakenomics: This is the story of how the ideologically matched and politically inseparable John Blundell, of oil giant Koch Industries, and the climate denier Dr Fred Singer became close allies. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports
… then designed instruments for satellites and produced the first calculation of methane …
A senior executive at Shell Oil has told how the Greenpeace protests at Brent Spa in 1997 fundamentally changed how the oil company acted in the world. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
… resolution would force the oil executives to produce a fully audited environmental report, …
Fakenomics: This is the story of how John Blundell - close friend to US oil billionaires - challenged the young Roger Bate to set up the climate denying 'Environment Unit' inside free-market think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
… He knew exactly the right person to help produce a professional and reasonable-sounding …
Fakenomics: Professor Michael Mann tells of the exact moment he fully acknowledged humans were driving climate change – and how his conversion was thanks to the invention of the colour printer. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports
… but this was the first time Mann had produced or even seen one like this. …
Antony Fisher founded the IEA - the instigator of UK climate denial and now at the centre of the 'influencing Brexit' scandal. His dramatic life story is a vital morality tale for those concerned about climate change.
… hope that the motor of capitalism would produce plenty for everyone. Then the music … 1947, including the Durham pit which had produced the Fisher family fortune. The oil …
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was established by the United Nations to gather the scientific evidence on global warming for world leaders. Immediately, it was attacked by free market think tanks funded by oil. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
… of the two nations that had historically produced the most carbon emissions were poised …
If we heed the warning from the financial collapse of 2008, a complex system degrading towards chaos, we can avoid a food systems collapse that could cost millions of lives.
… with real grassroots farmers and food producers who have mud under their fingernails …