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‘Global warming is not a problem’ says Net Zero Watch Board Member Lord Lawson During COP26

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A board member of a new MP-backed ‘Net Zero Watch’ campaign group has said today that “global warming is not a problem”, defended burning fossil fuels, and said carbon dioxide’s “principal effect” is the growth of plants. Net Zero Watch and the Global Warming Policy Foundation did not respond to a request for comment. .

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Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Took £135,000 from Climate Science Deniers and Fossil Fuel Interests

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Mordunat is a director at the Global Warming Policy Foundation and served as its chair from April 2017 to November 2019. The GWPF was set up by the late Nigel Lawson , a former chancellor of the exchequer, in 2009, and has consistently spread climate science denial. billion invested in fossil fuels.

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Conservatives Have Taken £7.2 Million from Climate Denial Group Funders and Directors

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The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) was founded by Margaret Thatcher’s former Chancellor Nigel Lawson in 2009 in order to combat what it describes as “extremely damaging and harmful policies” designed to mitigate climate change.

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Nigel Lawson, Founder of Tufton St. Climate Denial Group, Quits Parliament

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The founder and honorary president of the Global Warming Policy Foundation has announced he will be retiring from parliament. The article neglects to mention that Lawson also set up the influential Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) think tank, a major source of climate science denial and unwavering supporter of fossil fuels.

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$650 million investment is the biggest so far in direct air capture

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” Formed in 2009, Climeworks is a prominent pioneer of DAC technology and describes itself as the most advanced industry player, with the world’s largest direct air capture and storage plant launched in September 2021. C, positively impacting the lives of billions of people. And this is what we will do starting now.”.

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Media Repeats Kremlin Anti-Fracking Claims – While Ignoring Russia’s Promotion of Climate Denial

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These include articles plugging the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), which is currently working with the Net Zero Scrutiny Group to use Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to demand more fossil fuel extraction. A November 2009 piece on RT titled “Global Tricks: Climate change we can’t believe in?”

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‘Brexit Hardman’ Steve Baker MP Joins Climate Denial Group

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Conservative MP Steve Baker has joined the UK’s principal climate science denial group the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). The GWPF was founded in 2009 to combat what it described as “extremely damaging and harmful policies” designed to mitigate climate change. “In March 2021, polling showed five in six U.K.