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Purple Haze
Andy Rowell, January 9, 2013
As Australia scorches under a record heatwave and the US records its hottest year ever, the climate deniers and oil industry carry on regardless.
Big Coal Plays Dirty
Andy Rowell, September 3, 2012
One of America’s top reporters who exposes the antics of the coal industry is being sued for libel by one of the largest independent coal barons. Ken Ward JR, who has been labelled as “one of the nation’s top coal reporters” by Columbia Journalism Review, is being sued by Murray Energy and its owner Bob...
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Romney Aide Linked to Climate Denial
Andy Rowell, August 9, 2012
Good old Kert Davies. If you don’t know Kert he is the Research Director for Greenpeace US. I am sure Kert won’t mind me saying that he has a slightly unhealthy obsession with climate sceptics and those who push climate denial. He has had this obsession for a while. It was Kert who was behind...
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Exxon: Climate Change “Overblown”
Andy Rowell, July 2, 2012
As I write, two million people remain without power in the eastern United States, two days after extreme electrical storms brought down power lines and trees. They are struggling to remain cool in 100 degree heat. In Kansas the New York Times reports this morning “For five days last week, a brutal heat wave here...
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Haemorrhaging Heartland Still in Denial
Andy Rowell, May 21, 2012
Well the old adage is when you are in a hole, stop digging. Someone though has not told Joe Bast, the head of the Heartland Institute. Poor old Joe is feeling rather sorry that at his time of need his colleagues are deserting him. In a recent blog he criticises one such colleague saying that...
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Eleven Donors Dump Heartland
Andy Rowell, May 16, 2012
Next week the cream of the world’s climate deniers will descend on Chicago for the Heartland Institute’s latest annual sceptic-fest. The headline for the conference is “Real Science, Real Choices.” That’s more fact-twisting propaganda from Heartland that has pushed climate denial for years. The Institute was hoping for a bumper conference that would help it...
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Sponsors Dump Heartland After Ad Backfires
Andy Rowell, May 8, 2012
Last Friday, the long-standing climate denier think tank, the Heartland Institute ran an advert featuring the Unabomber on a billboard in Chicago that read “I still believe in Global Warming? Do you?” The Unabomber advert was going to be followed by images of Fidel Castro, Osama Bin Laden, and hostage-taker James J. Lee. According to...
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Why Outing Climate Sceptic Funders Matters
Andy Rowell, March 28, 2012
In the UK, David Cameron’s Conservative Government is still reeling from the “Cash for access” sting by the Sunday Times newspaper at the weekend where the Conservative co-party Treasurer, Peter Cruddas was caught promising access to the prime minister, including private dinners, in return for donations of over £250,000. In order to try and damage...
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Yet More Hypocrisy from Heartland
Andy Rowell, March 19, 2012
I have known the leading climate sceptic-watcher, Cindy Baxter, for many years. Once labelled by the Guardian newspaper as the “Antipodean scourge of the oil industry”, Baxter has long been a thorn in the side of those who deny climate change and carry drilling oil regardless of any consequences. And, like many who have watched...
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Climate Denial in Canada’s Classrooms
Andy Rowell, February 29, 2012
More bad news for the climate deniers at the Heartland Institute, which is still badly reeling from the controversial leak of information of its budget and strategy documents. It has now been revealed that an associate of the Institute taught a course at a top Canadian university that contained over 140 false, biased and misleading...
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