Matt Ridley has become embroiled in the dollars-for-denial scandal currently engulfing a British climate denial think tank with his position on the advisory board of Sense About Science looking increasingly…
Lord Lawson has taken the extraordinary decision to stand by a “distinguished” academic advisor to his charity who has become embroiled in a new scandal about climate denier groups being…
BY BRENDAN MONTAGUE AND KYLA MANDEL IN PARIS Coral Bleach, from the Billionaire United Mining Services, arrived this morning at the Heartland Institute's much vaunted Day of Examining Data repleat…
BY BRENDAN MONTAGUE AND KYLA MANDEL IN PARIS Fossil fuel subsides totalling $500 billion globally must be scrapped to prevent catastrophic climate change, the Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group…
Lord Matt Ridley, a card carrying member of Britain’s one percent, is responsible for one per cent of the entire country’s CO2. Lord Ridley is a powerhouse of climate denial…
BY BRENDAN MONTAGUE AND RICHARD HEASMAN Fracking is an incendiary issue: fractious campaigners are terrified drilling for shale gas will cause earthquakes and contaminate our water supplies. But the chancellor…
DeSmog UK’s epic history investigates how the former Institute of Economic Affairs director general, John Blundell, recruited British students with a flair for free market economics to the US for…
Lord Ridley, the landed aristocrat and prominent climate denier, will start work this year on two new profitable opencast coal mines close to his Grade I listed stately home and…
DeSmog UK tells the story of how the ideologically matched and politically inseparable Blundell and Dr Fred Singer became close and controversial allies, in our epic history series. One evening…
John Blundell is welcomed into the inner circle of the Koch elite at at time of inner-family squabbling and political scandal. He soon gains insight into an empire run by…
The beautiful and talented Dana Bate is living the American dream – her second populist chick-lit novel is currently arriving in bookstores across Britain and the United States. But never…
Climate denial was imported from the United States to Britain by a free market idealist employed by the billionaire oil baron Charles Koch. DeSmog UK tells their story for the…
Nine days after Lawson resigned protesters in East Berlin began tearing down the Berlin Wall, but a Lawson free from political restraints began forging his own doctrine in the newly…
This November marks the fifth anniversary of Climategate – when millions of emails were illegally hacked and spun as evidence that the world’s leading global warming researchers were engaged in…
This November marks the fifth anniversary of Climategate – when millions of emails were illegally hacked and spun as evidence that the world’s leading global warming researchers were engaged in…
Margaret Thatcher was at the height of her premiership when she took to the podium at the United Nations general assembly on the global environment held at the UN building…
Lawson is almost always introduced as Thatcher’s chancellor – but he was instrumental in her downfall. And once again, the tobacco and oil funded Institute of Economic Affairs and its…
Scientists had well understood for many decades that adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere could raise global temperatures and cause climate change. But when politicians finally took notice, and the…
Margaret Thatcher’s intellectual love affair with the economist Friedrich von Hayek continued despite divergent views on the importance of science, rationality and truth… Margaret Thatcher presented a clear argument before…
Thatcher had been in awe of her fellow free market apostle Reagan, but the two world leaders would diverge on the issue of the environment. By 1988, the American president…
