Global Warming

Alaska's Climate Change Double Agent

Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) accepts the reality of global warming and man's contribution to it, and says she wants to do something about it.

Oil-Funded Gov Joins with Oil-Funded Front Group to Appeal Greenhouse Gas Regs

Although it seems a bit like a dog-bites-man story, the New York Times reported that Texas Governor and 2012 presidential aspirant Rick Perry (R-TX) has joined with the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) in challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to regulate carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. As the Center for Media and Democracy has documented on our SourceWatch site, CEI has been well-funded by Exxon and other oil companies, and is one of the main U.S. corporate front groups fighting efforts to address global warming and regulate the industry that feeds it funding. But, the courts are now stacked in Perry's favor, as noted below.

Oil Money Funds Climate Deniers and Attacks on Climate Scientists

The multinational energy company ExxonMobil has given hundreds of thousands of British pounds in grants to free-market, anti-climate change think-tanks to wage a coordinated, orchestrated campaign against climate change science, and undermine public acceptance of the idea that global warming has a man-made component. The campaign includes attacks against scientists who support the idea that climate change in man-made.

Reflections on COP15, Looking Ahead to COP16

Copenhagen Out of the Frying Pan, Part 8
Publisher's Note: I asked our guest writer, Alex Carlin, to send along a wrap-up piece reflecting on his experience at COP15, and looking ahead to COP16 later this year. He graciously agreed, and here are his reflections on the conference and climate change. --Lisa Graves, Executive Director

PR Exec Tells How Industry Manipulates Public Opinion

James Hoggan, the director of the James Hoggan & Associates public relations firm, has authored a book titled Climate Cover Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming, in which he describes PR techniques that industry groups use to create the impression of a scient

U.K. Police Lobbied Power Company to Sue Protesters

Documents obtained by the Guardian reveal that the chief constable of Kent police, Mike Fuller, lobbied the power generation company E.ON UK to seek injunctions to counter protests against the proposed Kingsnorth power station.

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