DeSmog
Clearing the PR pollution that clouds climate science.
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 Zia Yusuf Wants to be the UK’s Elon Musk The Reform chair has long expressed his admiration for the DOGE chief, and is now trying to replicate his policies in local government. 📝 @rtakver.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/05/08/z...
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 Reform Chair Zia Yusuf Accused of ‘Power Grab’ Through New Constitution Farage’s right-hand man has been accused of awarding himself sweeping, unchecked authority within the party. 📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
- New Reform Think Tank ‘Resolute 1850’ Run by Mining Magnates
- 🛑 BREAKING 🛑 Corporate Welfare vs. Community Needs: Just as Trump announces domestic budget cuts, Louisiana is handing over $2.8 billion in tax breaks to LNG giant Woodside—leaving locals facing “harsh economic reality.” 🔗 Read More: loom.ly/BIjzScs #corporatewelfare #trump #louisiana
- Andrea Jenkyns Vows Climate Cuts in Flood Risk Lincolnshire
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 Thames Water’s Prospective New Owner Donated $1 Million to Trump’s Inauguration The U.S. private equity firm KKR contributed to the president’s swearing-in ceremony. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social & @adambarnett.bsky.social
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 What Have Reform’s Key Candidates Said About Climate Change? Despite widespread public support for clean energy and climate action, Nigel Farage’s party is running on an aggressively anti-net zero ticket. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
- 🟡 BREAKING: Alleged Exxon Hacker-for-Hire Loses Extradition Fight In London Court Amit Forlit, who is accused of conducting hacking operations against 128 targets, faces up to 45 years behind bars if found guilty. 📝 Latest from @rebeccajohn.bsky.social 👇 www.desmog.com/2025/04/30/b...
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 Reform Candidate Andrea Jenkyns Vows Climate Cuts in Flood Risk Lincolnshire The would-be mayor has claimed that carbon dioxide “is not pollution”. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 GB News Broadcast Almost 1,000 Anti-Climate Attacks Before and After 2024 Election Concerns have been raised about the channel’s “wild and paranoid conspiracy claims” ahead of May’s local elections. 📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social
- From Victory to Setback: Michael Mann's Legal Battle Continues: After securing a $1 million defamation verdict last year, climate scientist Michael Mann now faces unexpected court sanctions and reduced damages. Discover the latest twists in this high-profile case: www.desmog.com/2025/04/22/c....
- 🔥 Did you know that a supposed grassroots energy campaign in Canada is actually a gas industry front, with direct ties to Conservative Party candidate Pierre Poilievre’s team? Read DeSmog's exposé: www.desmog.com/2025/04/25/p...
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 Farage’s Top Fundraiser Targets Oil and Gas Donations Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy has been attempting to extract cash from fossil fuel executives. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
- ‘Canada First’ Conservative MP attended prayer breakfast with Trump. Bob Zimmer’s praise for Trump used to raise eyebrows locally. Now he’s trying to distance himself from a second MAGA administration. desmog.com/2025/04/24/c...
- 🔴 NEW! 🔴 From Victory to Setback: Michael Mann's Legal Battle Continues: After securing a $1 million defamation verdict last year, climate scientist Michael Mann now faces unexpected court sanctions and reduced damages. Discover the latest twists in this high-profile case.
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 Donald Trump’s Fossil Fuel Executive UK Ambassador Donated $4 Million to President’s Inauguration Fund Warren Stephens made the donation alongside big tech firms and oil giants. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social & @writesbright.bsky.social
- ‘I’m Not a Scientist’: Net Zero Opponent Nigel Farage Admits Climate Ignorance
- We're excited to partner with @levernews.com to publish a wild scoop from Canada. @geoffdembicki.bsky.social obtained audio of Amazon and TC Energy reps discussing how Pierre Poilievre could import DOGE to Canada and cut bureaucracy ‘more quickly’ than Trump. www.desmog.com/2025/04/23/r...
- Revealed: Media Blitz Against Heat Pumps Funded by Gas Lobby Group 📝 DeSmog story from July 2023
- Earlier this year @geoffdembicki.bsky.social hung out with Trump allies and climate deniers at Jordan Peterson's ARC conference. He was joined by reporters from @nationalobserver.com, who're releasing episode 4 of their great podcast The Takeover today. www.nationalobserver.com/podcast/the-...
- We're excited to be part of a new podcast called The Takeover. It follows reporters from @nationalobserver.com and our own @geoffdembicki.bsky.social to London where they go deep inside a powerful anti-climate network created by Jordan Peterson. www.nationalobserver.com/podcast/the-...
- 🔴 Climate Disinformation ‘Normalised’ on French TV and Radio, Report Finds New findings from an alliance of NGOs challenges the belief that disinformation is confined to social media. 📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 TOMORROW, April 15, officials of a rural Virginia county will vote on rezoning hundreds acres of farmland to heavy industrial use, so a developer named Balico LLC can build a data center fueled by a 3,500MW gas-fired power plant. www.desmog.com/2025/04/14/f...
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 Group Behind ‘Autocratic’ Trump Agenda Working on Albanian Election The Heritage Foundation helped to “design” the manifesto of candidate Sali Berisha, who is accused of corruption. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 Revealed: Meat Industry Behind Attacks on Flagship Climate-Friendly Diet Report A new document shows that vested interests were behind a “mud slinging” PR campaign to discredit the 2019 EAT-Lancet study. 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 Reform Think Tank ‘Resolute 1850’ Run by Mining Magnates The group plans to fundraise from U.S. backers allied to Donald Trump. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social & @writesbright.bsky.social
- Trump supporter Ben Shapiro is one of Canada's 'allies' according to Alberta premier Danielle Smith. The premier’s remarks came during her speech to a conservative audience at the Canada Strong and Free Network Conference in Ottawa. www.desmog.com/2025/04/10/d...
- Pierre Poilievre says he's the right man to deal with Trump. But talks by his allies at Jordan Peterson’s ARC conferences sound just like MAGA followers. Read our deep dive into Peterson's influence on Canada's Conservative Party candidate: www.desmog.com/2025/04/08/j...
- Anonymous survey shows Big Oil knows the truth. While they publicly cheer Trump's chaos, privately they’re sounding the alarm: The president's unstable leadership is bad for their bottom line — and, ultimately, our planet. Read the full story from @sharonkelly.bsky.social: loom.ly/Ikkblxg
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 Hedge Fund Boss Paul Marshall Bet Big on Elon Musk Before Trump’s Election The UK media baron trebled his shareholding in Tesla, while his outlets pumped out pro-Musk content. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
- “Any politician who makes the ludicrous claim that climate change is a hoax is not fit to hold public office.” 📣 Bob Ward of @granthamlse.bsky.social
- 🔴 Reform Candidate Arron Banks Has Repeatedly Mocked Basic Climate Science The multi-millionaire Brexit funder has claimed “CO2 and climate change is the ultimate hoax”. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 Czech MEP Appointed to Climate Role While Paid £10k a Month as Car Consultant 📝 @phoebecooke.bsky.social with @denikreferendum.cz 👇 www.desmog.com/2025/03/31/c...
- DeSmog and @nationalobserver.com obtained audio of the private gala in Florida where AB premier Danielle Smith spoke with Ben Shapiro. They discussed how Canada can elect 'solid allies' to Trump and raised over $1M for PragerU. @geoffdembicki.bsky.social has more: www.desmog.com/2025/03/27/d...
- EXCLUSIVE: New DeSmog map shows links b/t Koch Industries, Elon Musk’s X Corp., Facebook and Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre. These are just a handful of the corporate interests linked to the inner circle of the man who could be Canada's next prime minister. www.desmog.com/2025/03/25/p...
- 🔴 EXCLUSIVE 🔴 Global ad giant WPP has closed specialist sustainability communications agency, AKQA Bloom, barely three years after its launch. Ellen Ormesher reports for DeSmog: loom.ly/x96AeKk
- Jordan Peterson is building a transatlantic movement to sabotage net-zero climate action. Reporters with @desmog.bsky.social and @nationalobserver.com went behind the scenes in London to track how he's doing it. Read more today from @geoffdembicki.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/03/24/h...
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 Kemi Badenoch Made Anti-Net Zero Speech at Shell Ad Agency The Tory leader was hosted by a firm that holds a major contract with one of the world’s biggest polluters. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 Supermarkets Accused of Major ‘Methane Blindspot’ 📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social 👇 www.desmog.com/2025/03/18/s...
- The US Has Never Been More Divided on Climate. Here’s How to Build Bridges (and It May Surprise You) 1️⃣: listen and acknowledge that people of all political stripes are feeling confused, overwhelmed, angry, and scared. Dr Renée Lertzman dives into this and more here🔗 loom.ly/-hM6fNU
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 Heritage Foundation and Allies Discuss Dismantling the EU The group behind the radical Project 2025 agenda is increasingly turning its attention to Europe. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 Heartland Institute UK Chief: Group Is Influencing Trump Policy ‘at the Highest Level’ The climate science denial group claims it has “strong” ties to “big individuals” in the U.S. administration. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
- "The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship is the global far-right Woodstock, with political and thought leaders mingling with the business elite, conservative nobodies – and me". ✏️ Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 Orbán-Backed Think Tank Breached Lobbying Rules, Claims EU Watchdog An official complaint slams MCC Brussels for failing to declare its funding, and warns that European democracy is under “severe attack”. 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social
- 🔴 Tory Peer to Lead Climate Science Denial Group Craig Mackinlay has taken over as the director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, which has claimed that carbon dioxide has been “mercilessly demonised”. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
