DeSmog Was Created to Combat Climategate-Style Misinformation. We’re Still Going

Read time: 4 minsDeSmog was launched in January 2006 to call out the public relations industry for working with fossil fuel industry clients to...

Where Are the Ring-Leaders of the Manufactured Climategate Scandal Now?

Read time: 12 minsTen years ago, leading climate scientists at the University of East Anglia had a mass of email correspondence stolen from their...

Why the Climategate Hack was More Than An Attack on Science

Read time: 5 minsFrom its tense soundtrack and flickering images of suspicious-looking wires, you could mistake the BBC’s latest documentary on climate change for...

Comment: We Need to Have a Prime-Time Debate on the Climate Emergency

Read time: 4 minsBy Jake Woodier, UK Student Climate Network campaigner The upcoming election comes at the end of an unprecedented year of mass climate action,...

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar Clarifies ‘Climate Change Has Benefits’ Statement

Read time: 4 minsIrish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar moved to distance himself from recent claims he made that climate change had potential “benefits” for Ireland,...

Election 2019: Here Are All the Brexit Party’s Climate Science Deniers

Read time: 12 minsClimate science denial and opposition to climate-friendly policies are widespread among Brexit Party general election candidates, analysis by DeSmog shows. Of prospective parliamentary...

Comment: Cuadrilla Has Failed in Lancashire, But Only a Full Ban Can End Fracking...

Read time: 4 minsBy Claire Stephenson, a campaigner with Frack Free Lancashire The announcement by the Conservative government last week, proclaiming they are ending their support...

Analysis: Why It’s Risky to Invest in Saudi Aramco’s Climate Wreckage Sale

Read time: 4 minsBy Andy Rowell for Oil Change International The board of the state-owned oil company of Saudi Arabia, known as Saudi Aramco, has given its final...

UK Government Implements Fracking Ban – For Now

Read time: 7 minsBy Ruth Hayhurst for Drill or Drop After seven years of promoting fracking, Conservative ministers have withdrawn their support and blocked the prospects...

Election 2019: The Anti-Climate Action MPs Standing Down

Read time: 4 minsMore than 60 MPs are standing down in the upcoming election. While it’s always sad to bid esteemed colleagues goodbye, some...

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