DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Hintze, a Conservative peer and hedge fund manager, was one of the early funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , founded by the late Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson. The Conservative Party has received at least £600,000 since Rishi Sunak became prime minister from board members at leading Tufton Street groups.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2024

Neil Record , a millionaire Tory donor and founder of the investment firm Record Financial Group, is chair of Net Zero Watch (NZW), the campaign arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Based in 55 Tufton Street , Westminster, the GWPF is the UK’s leading climate science denial group.

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Grist

JANUARY 12, 2023

The chart below shows how global warming projections modeled by Exxon scientists compared to the actual temperature that ensued. Grist / Jessie Blaeser. The study comes at a time when oil giants are under pressure to curb carbon pollution and prepare for a future powered by renewables like wind and solar. Spencer Platt / Getty Images.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

It is curious how certain agencies, including Lynton Crosby’s, end up advising both the Tories and their friends,” Jolyon Maugham, director of the Good Law Project, told DeSmog. global warming target established by the 2015 Paris Agreement. This raises a number of interesting political questions.”

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Bespectacled, tall, and barrel-chested, with blonde hair and a beard punctuated by gray, Cole stood confidently before a classroom of conference attendees at a University of Oregon environmental law symposium in 2008, less than a year before his death. Abascal gave Cole a desk and a phone, and Cole got to work. Early Influences.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 30, 2024

In 2022 the Charity Commission, the UK’s independent charity regulator, launched a case into the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), set up by the (now late) Conservative peer Nigel Lawson in 2009. World temperatures reached their hottest levels ever measured in July this year.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 23, 2024

Hintze, a Conservative peer, was one of the early funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , the UK’s leading climate science denial group, which has claimed that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when it is a “benefit to the planet”.

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