It’s Saturday night, Laurent Fabius has brought his green hammer down on proceedings at the climate summit and the Paris Agreement is a done deal – now what will it all mean? Earlier this afternoon, while we were all still waiting for the announcement, the BBC’s Nicholas Owen interviewed Professor Mike Rosenberg of the IESE … Continue reading
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Can of Worms (2) Tellus Mater
Wherever you look in the strange world of Climate Campaign Funding, the same names keep popping up; philanthropic foundations set up by dead American billionaires; various offshoots of the United Nations and the European Commission; the Dutch National Lottery – and Tellus Mater. I’ve spent a morning idly googling around and this is what I … Continue reading
CAN of Worms (part 1)
COP21 is due to start with a mass demonstration on November 29th. The Guardian is reporting that doubts are being expressed about whether it will go ahead. They quote a spokesman for the Climate Action Network (France) which is part of the Climate Action Network (Europe) which is itself part of CAN: “a worldwide network … Continue reading
The “Well-funded campaign” myth
Myths, fairy stories and inventions regarding climate sceptics are often presented and promoted by climate scientists and their hangers-on in the social sciences, in the media, in NGOs and in politics. One thing that we’ll be doing on this blog is debunking some of these myths. One of the most wide-spread myths is that climate … Continue reading
