DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2024

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage , who is a vocal critic of green policies and climate science, is standing in a constituency threatened by rising sea levels and flooding due to global warming. The party’s manifesto claims that “scientists disagree as to how much” humans have had an impact on global warming.

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Green Living Guy

MARCH 28, 2022

As the planet heats up, severe weather events become more frequent and powerful, sea levels rise, food crops suffer from extended droughts, and many animal and plant species face extinction. It’s difficult to envision what we, as individuals, can do to address an issue of this magnitude and severity.

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Grist

MARCH 3, 2025

Plastic, like this refuse on a beach in Scotland, will become part of the geologic record and last millions of years. Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images Q: What about plastics? SG: Plastic has a chemical backbone that is incredibly strong and difficult to change, but it has only really been around since the 1900s.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 6, 2024

The international journal Oceans and Coastal Management also produced a study in 2022 suggesting that the Tendring area, which encompasses Clacton, is exposed to sea level rises – potentially affecting hundreds of homes. We need a serious national debate about the scale of the threat.”

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 27, 2024

Speaking on GB News in August 2021, Farage said that he was “very much an environmentalist” and that he couldn’t “abide things like plastics in our seas, pollution in our rivers.” Farage has himself denied established climate science.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

As of April 2022 , scientists have concluded that humanity has exceeded the safe operating space of biosphere integrity, freshwater change, novel entities (specifically plastic and microplastic), and biogeochemical flows. If this permafrost thaws, it will release CO2 and methane which can even further accelerate global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Between 2019 and 2023, the ASI accepted £40,000 from Nigel Vinson – one of the few known donors to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading climate science denial group – and £40,000 from Tory peer Lord Jon Moynihan. As DeSmog has revealed , Farage’s party received £2.3 to “drill baby drill” for more fossil fuels.

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