DeSmog, (formerly The DeSmogBlog) founded in January 2006, is a journalistic and activist website that focuses on topics related to climate change. The

Smog, or smoke fog, is a type of intense air pollution. The word "smog" was coined in the early 20th century, and is a portmanteau of the words smoke and

annual journalism fellowship named in honor of Tony Blankley. According to DeSmog, the organization "has regularly provided a platform for climate change

The Great Smog of London, or Great Smog of 1952, was a severe air pollution event that affected London, England, in December 1952. A period of unusually

Hope, Mat; Farand, Chloe (7 June 2019). "DeSmog's Pro-Brexit Climate Science Denier Map — A User's Guide". DeSmog. Retrieved 9 June 2023. "Gove allies say

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DCI Group DCI Group Background DCI Group, LLC. is a Republican lobbying and public relations firm with offices in Washington, Brussels, and Houston. DCI …

Background The late Robert M. (Bob) Carter was a research professor at James Cook University, Queensland, Australia, and advisor to multiple climate scie…

In 2006, Craig Idso also incorporated Cenospheres.net Inc., a company serving the oilfield industry. According to the Arizona Corporation Commission, the…

Background Mark Steyn is the author and columnist of SteynOnline.com, where he writes “Steynposts”—commentary on current events—Monday through Friday, co…

Background Larry Bell is a professor of architecture and space architecture at the University of Houston. He is the founding director of the Sasakawa Int…

Lee Fang at the Republic Report has a great post noting the media’s obsession with the shiny penny of the who/how story surrounding the leaked documents …

Tom Tanton Thomas (Tom) Tanton Credentials B.S. Chemistry, California State University, San Diego (1972).1 “AMERICAN TRADITION INSTITUTE, et al., Plainti…

Background Viv Forbes is the chairman of the Carbon Sense Coalition, which was created to “defend the role of carbon on earth and in the atmosphere,” and…

David Koch served as executive vice president and board member of Koch Industries Inc., a company spanning a range of industries including petroleum, min…

In August 2013, Ernst was invited to a gathering of wealthy conservative donors and received hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of television ads fr…

Zinke joined the elite Navy SEALs in 1986, retiring as a commander in 2008. He was named acting commander of the Combined Joint Special Operations Task F…

Background Todd Myers is a public relations professional and director of the Center for the Environment at a small think tank located in Seattle, Washing…

Bast studied economics as an undergraduate at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several free-market books promoting free-market solutions to…

According to Marc Morano’s archived profile at the Heartland Institute, he “joined the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee as the majority Comm…

Background Viscount Matthew White Ridley is a Conservative hereditary peer in the British House of Lords, a science writer, journalist, and popular autho…

According to an article in Vanity Fair, “Though he likes to bash scientists for working outside their degreed fields, Ebell, it turns out, isn’t a scient…

Cordato also worked as a full-time economics professor at the University of Hartford and at Auburn University, and as adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins Un…

Ollier has written articles for the Lavoisier Group, an organization with close to the Australian mining industry. He is also on a scientific advisory pa…

Ball was a former professor of geography at the University of Winnipeg from 1988 to 1996. The University of Winnipeg never had an office of Climatology. …

In a report based on research by the environmental organizations GRAIN and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), the UK sustainable farm…

Stance on Climate Change Covering a Just Stop Oil protest outside Buckingham Palace, GB News producer Ben Leo asked the protestors a series of questions …

Euroseeds Background Euroseeds is a trade association representing nearly 70 European companies that breed, produce, research, and market the seeds of “a…

According to its website, GOAL Sciences “aim[s] to curate such evidence topic-by-topic on the livestock sciences that is most relevant, accurate and obje…

The TV and Youtube ads for “Powering Progress” opened with a man who said, “In the UK, 1.4 million households use 100 percent renewable electricity from …

WPP had 55 contracts with fossil fuel clients across 2022 and 2023, more than any of the other five major holding companies in the advertising industry, …

i360 i360 Background i360 advertises itself as a data science, analytics, technology, and advertising company that maintains a “comprehensive data resour…

But a 2017 report by Influence Map, tracking 50 large corporations most influential in shaping climate policy globally, found that 35 of the firms were a…

Stance on Climate Change In 2021, Omnicom Group joined the Science Based Targets initiative in order to measure its carbon emissions and bring its emissi…

Donate to DeSmog Since 2006, the award-winning team at DeSmog has researched and reported hard-hitting news and information that has helped to shift the …

“Without modern crop protection solutions, integrated weed management, new breeding techniques, digital agriculture and carbon farming, there will be no r…

Founded in 1946, the group represents 212,000 individual members, 21,000 local syndicates, and dozens of regional and county-level farming federations, a…

CAR26 Background CAR26 is a UK climate science denial group that formed shortly before the COP26 climate summit held in Glasgow, Scotland. It claims to c…

Stance on Climate Change In 2020, Havas launched Havas Impact+, a corporate social responsibility program that aimed to reduce Havas’ direct emissions by…

Spiked Spiked Background Spiked is a UK-based online magazine and podcast series that aims to “change the world as well as report on it” and fight for “h…

In a case study of Beyond Petroleum posted on its website, Ogilvy wrote about its pitch to British Petroleum, which had just merged with Amoco and acquir…

This series is part of an ongoing investigation into historic attempts, starting in the 1960s, by polluting industries and corporations to obstruct and c…

Before merging with Cohn & Wolfe and Hill + Knowlton, Burson-Marsteller became well known for crisis communications, including advising Union Carbide aft…

In 2015, PragerU had hit “more than 50 million views as confirmed by YouTube and Facebook,” as Prager told The Daily Signal, a conservative news website.…

Edelman Edelman Background Edelman is the largest public relations and marketing company in the world by revenues. In 2021, the company had $1 billion in…

Perenco Perenco Background Perenco Oil & Gas, based in London and Paris, is one of the world’s largest family-owned oil companies. The company is owned e…

Ben Pile Credentials Background Ben Pile is a researcher, commentator and blogger. He is the co-founder and main writer of the Climate Resistanceblog, wh…

According to Heartland, Orr previously worked as an aide in the Wisconsin State Senate where he was a lead-office writer and policy advisor on frac sand …

#ShellKnew Big oil company Shell knew climate change was going to be big, was going to be bad, and that its products were responsible for global warming …

Shining a Light on Big Ag’s Climate Push The agricultural sector — a key driver of global warming — is coming under increasing pressure to cut emissions.…

Databases In DeSmog’s Climate Disinformation Database, you can browse our extensive research on the individuals and organizations that have helped to del…

“From the mid-1970s until about 1998 there was a significant amount of warming, but from 1998 until now there has been no statistically recognisable warm…

“In climate change as in all things, we must never let the perfect be the enemy of the good. We must focus on a low carbon future but the simple fact is …

Background Ruth Lea is a political economist and former civil servant. A commentator on economic and political affairs, Ruth Lea has criticised the “big …

Clexit Climate Exit (Clexit) Background Climate Exit (Clexit) is a climate science denial group formed shortly after the UK’s decision to leave the EU. A…

Background Roy W. Spencer is a research scientist at the University of Alabama, Huntsville.He operates his own blog on global warming where he describes …

After graduating from the University of Western Australia, Nova joined the Shell Questacon Science Circus, a Shell-sponsored program that employs univers…

After Phillips took over as president of the AFP in 2006, the organization expanded to over 17 states and increased its membership to 700,000. In 2007, P…

“Rather than continuing the current path to undermine and block America’s fossil fuel producers, the Trump Administration will encourage the production o…

While Attorney General, Pruitt established the “first federalism unit to combat unwarranted regulation and overreach by the federal government.” Pruitt’s…

Curry has been criticized by climate scientists for her climate outreach in the blogosphere based on assertions not necessarily supported by the evidence:…

According to Ross McKitrick’s profile at the Fraser Institute, he holds a BA in economics from Queen’s University, and an MA and Ph.D. in economics from …

According to its website, “The mission of the Cato Institute is to originate, disseminate, and increase understanding of public policies based on the pri…

Tony Heller describes himself as “an independent thinker who is considered a heretic by the orthodoxy on both sides of the climate debate.” He has degree…

Comment: 10 Years on from Deepwater Horizon, Coronavirus Shows Continued Need for a Just Transition Away from Big Oil Livelihoods lost and businesses clo…

“It beggars belief that instead of developing a safety-led regulated indigenous gas industry that would provide decades’ worth of energy, we face being i…

DeSmog UK was launched in September 2014 as an investigative media outlet dedicated to cutting through the spin clouding the debate on energy and environ…

DeSmog, (formerly The DeSmogBlog) founded in January 2006, is a journalistic and activist website that focuses on topics related to climate change. The

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Smog, or smoke fog, is a type of intense air pollution. The word "smog" was coined in the early 20th century, and is a portmanteau of the words smoke and

annual journalism fellowship named in honor of Tony Blankley. According to DeSmog, the organization "has regularly provided a platform for climate change

The Great Smog of London, or Great Smog of 1952, was a severe air pollution event that affected London, England, in December 1952. A period of unusually

Hope, Mat; Farand, Chloe (7 June 2019). "DeSmog's Pro-Brexit Climate Science Denier Map — A User's Guide". DeSmog. Retrieved 9 June 2023. "Gove allies say

Footer The American Council on Science and Health is a research and education organization operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code…

JavaScript is not available. We’ve detected that JavaScript is disabled in this browser. Please enable JavaScript or switch to a supported browser to con…

Web server is returning an unknown errorError code 520 Browser Host What happened? There is an unknown connection issue between Cloudflare and the origin…

About Us Who we are DeSmog was founded in January 2006 to clear the PR pollution that is clouding the science and solutions to climate change. Our team q…

DCI Group DCI Group Background DCI Group, LLC. is a Republican lobbying and public relations firm with offices in Washington, Brussels, and Houston. DCI …

Background The late Robert M. (Bob) Carter was a research professor at James Cook University, Queensland, Australia, and advisor to multiple climate scie…

In 2006, Craig Idso also incorporated Cenospheres.net Inc., a company serving the oilfield industry. According to the Arizona Corporation Commission, the…

Background Mark Steyn is the author and columnist of SteynOnline.com, where he writes “Steynposts”—commentary on current events—Monday through Friday, co…

Background Larry Bell is a professor of architecture and space architecture at the University of Houston. He is the founding director of the Sasakawa Int…

Lee Fang at the Republic Report has a great post noting the media’s obsession with the shiny penny of the who/how story surrounding the leaked documents …

Tom Tanton Thomas (Tom) Tanton Credentials B.S. Chemistry, California State University, San Diego (1972).1 “AMERICAN TRADITION INSTITUTE, et al., Plainti…

Background Viv Forbes is the chairman of the Carbon Sense Coalition, which was created to “defend the role of carbon on earth and in the atmosphere,” and…

David Koch served as executive vice president and board member of Koch Industries Inc., a company spanning a range of industries including petroleum, min…

In August 2013, Ernst was invited to a gathering of wealthy conservative donors and received hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of television ads fr…

Zinke joined the elite Navy SEALs in 1986, retiring as a commander in 2008. He was named acting commander of the Combined Joint Special Operations Task F…

Background Todd Myers is a public relations professional and director of the Center for the Environment at a small think tank located in Seattle, Washing…

Bast studied economics as an undergraduate at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several free-market books promoting free-market solutions to…

According to Marc Morano’s archived profile at the Heartland Institute, he “joined the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee as the majority Comm…

Background Viscount Matthew White Ridley is a Conservative hereditary peer in the British House of Lords, a science writer, journalist, and popular autho…

According to an article in Vanity Fair, “Though he likes to bash scientists for working outside their degreed fields, Ebell, it turns out, isn’t a scient…

Cordato also worked as a full-time economics professor at the University of Hartford and at Auburn University, and as adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins Un…

Ollier has written articles for the Lavoisier Group, an organization with close to the Australian mining industry. He is also on a scientific advisory pa…

Ball was a former professor of geography at the University of Winnipeg from 1988 to 1996. The University of Winnipeg never had an office of Climatology. …

In a report based on research by the environmental organizations GRAIN and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), the UK sustainable farm…

Stance on Climate Change Covering a Just Stop Oil protest outside Buckingham Palace, GB News producer Ben Leo asked the protestors a series of questions …

Euroseeds Background Euroseeds is a trade association representing nearly 70 European companies that breed, produce, research, and market the seeds of “a…

According to its website, GOAL Sciences “aim[s] to curate such evidence topic-by-topic on the livestock sciences that is most relevant, accurate and obje…

The TV and Youtube ads for “Powering Progress” opened with a man who said, “In the UK, 1.4 million households use 100 percent renewable electricity from …

WPP had 55 contracts with fossil fuel clients across 2022 and 2023, more than any of the other five major holding companies in the advertising industry, …

i360 i360 Background i360 advertises itself as a data science, analytics, technology, and advertising company that maintains a “comprehensive data resour…

But a 2017 report by Influence Map, tracking 50 large corporations most influential in shaping climate policy globally, found that 35 of the firms were a…

Stance on Climate Change In 2021, Omnicom Group joined the Science Based Targets initiative in order to measure its carbon emissions and bring its emissi…

Donate to DeSmog Since 2006, the award-winning team at DeSmog has researched and reported hard-hitting news and information that has helped to shift the …

“Without modern crop protection solutions, integrated weed management, new breeding techniques, digital agriculture and carbon farming, there will be no r…

Founded in 1946, the group represents 212,000 individual members, 21,000 local syndicates, and dozens of regional and county-level farming federations, a…

CAR26 Background CAR26 is a UK climate science denial group that formed shortly before the COP26 climate summit held in Glasgow, Scotland. It claims to c…

Stance on Climate Change In 2020, Havas launched Havas Impact+, a corporate social responsibility program that aimed to reduce Havas’ direct emissions by…

Spiked Spiked Background Spiked is a UK-based online magazine and podcast series that aims to “change the world as well as report on it” and fight for “h…

In a case study of Beyond Petroleum posted on its website, Ogilvy wrote about its pitch to British Petroleum, which had just merged with Amoco and acquir…

This series is part of an ongoing investigation into historic attempts, starting in the 1960s, by polluting industries and corporations to obstruct and c…

Before merging with Cohn & Wolfe and Hill + Knowlton, Burson-Marsteller became well known for crisis communications, including advising Union Carbide aft…

In 2015, PragerU had hit “more than 50 million views as confirmed by YouTube and Facebook,” as Prager told The Daily Signal, a conservative news website.…

Edelman Edelman Background Edelman is the largest public relations and marketing company in the world by revenues. In 2021, the company had $1 billion in…

Perenco Perenco Background Perenco Oil & Gas, based in London and Paris, is one of the world’s largest family-owned oil companies. The company is owned e…

Ben Pile Credentials Background Ben Pile is a researcher, commentator and blogger. He is the co-founder and main writer of the Climate Resistanceblog, wh…

According to Heartland, Orr previously worked as an aide in the Wisconsin State Senate where he was a lead-office writer and policy advisor on frac sand …

#ShellKnew Big oil company Shell knew climate change was going to be big, was going to be bad, and that its products were responsible for global warming …

Shining a Light on Big Ag’s Climate Push The agricultural sector — a key driver of global warming — is coming under increasing pressure to cut emissions.…

Databases In DeSmog’s Climate Disinformation Database, you can browse our extensive research on the individuals and organizations that have helped to del…

“From the mid-1970s until about 1998 there was a significant amount of warming, but from 1998 until now there has been no statistically recognisable warm…

“In climate change as in all things, we must never let the perfect be the enemy of the good. We must focus on a low carbon future but the simple fact is …

Background Ruth Lea is a political economist and former civil servant. A commentator on economic and political affairs, Ruth Lea has criticised the “big …

Clexit Climate Exit (Clexit) Background Climate Exit (Clexit) is a climate science denial group formed shortly after the UK’s decision to leave the EU. A…

Background Roy W. Spencer is a research scientist at the University of Alabama, Huntsville.He operates his own blog on global warming where he describes …

After graduating from the University of Western Australia, Nova joined the Shell Questacon Science Circus, a Shell-sponsored program that employs univers…

After Phillips took over as president of the AFP in 2006, the organization expanded to over 17 states and increased its membership to 700,000. In 2007, P…

“Rather than continuing the current path to undermine and block America’s fossil fuel producers, the Trump Administration will encourage the production o…

While Attorney General, Pruitt established the “first federalism unit to combat unwarranted regulation and overreach by the federal government.” Pruitt’s…

Curry has been criticized by climate scientists for her climate outreach in the blogosphere based on assertions not necessarily supported by the evidence:…

According to Ross McKitrick’s profile at the Fraser Institute, he holds a BA in economics from Queen’s University, and an MA and Ph.D. in economics from …

According to its website, “The mission of the Cato Institute is to originate, disseminate, and increase understanding of public policies based on the pri…

Tony Heller describes himself as “an independent thinker who is considered a heretic by the orthodoxy on both sides of the climate debate.” He has degree…

Comment: 10 Years on from Deepwater Horizon, Coronavirus Shows Continued Need for a Just Transition Away from Big Oil Livelihoods lost and businesses clo…

“It beggars belief that instead of developing a safety-led regulated indigenous gas industry that would provide decades’ worth of energy, we face being i…

DeSmog UK was launched in September 2014 as an investigative media outlet dedicated to cutting through the spin clouding the debate on energy and environ…