🔴 NEW - Telegraph Bidder Daily Mail Cashing in from Oil Industry Events
The Mail’s events business in the Middle East provides a quarter of its revenue. A previous Telegraph bid was rejected over petrostate influence fears.
@adambarnett.bsky.social
🔴 NEW 🔴
Nigel Farage Paid £27,000 to Speak at Pro-Trump U.S. Think Tank
www.desmog.com/2026/02/26/n...
📝 @phoebecooke.bsky.social & @adambarnett.bsky.social
🔴 NEW: Tory-Linked Climate Denial Group Seeks Funds in Trump’s America
www.desmog.com/2026/02/24/t...
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
🔴 NEW - Reform Candidate Matthew Goodwin’s MAGA Network
“Anti-elite” GB News presenter standing in Gorton and Denton has ties to powerful anti-climate groups allied to Donald Trump.
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
🔴 AI vs. Net Zero: The UK’s Next Climate Battle
Opponents of climate action are taking advantage of the AI boom to attack the government’s clean energy goals.
@rtakver.bsky.social
Climate and vaccine scientists @michaelemann.bsky.social and @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social on how everyone can do their bit to defend science, dissident-poet Yang Lian on translating Orwell into Chinese, and journalist @adambarnett.bsky.social on how to turn back the tide of climate apathy...
🔴 Big Tech Accused of AI ‘Greenwashing’
A new report has found that “the promises of planet-saving tech remain hollow”.
📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social
Lost Boys paperback is coming May 7. Top marks to @atlanticbooks.bsky.social for coming up with such a great cover
🔴 NEW - Trump Accused of Trying to ‘Divide and Destabilise’ Europe Through New MAGA Fund
UK and EU leaders have been called upon to “reject” MAGA’s “foreign interference”.
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social, @clarecarlile.bsky.social & @writesbright.bsky.social
Can you recommend any alternatives?
Which is more plausible, that Labour Together would try to discredit a (Jewish) Corbynite for being part of a paid anti-Israel campaign, or that Labour Together would invoke an anti-semitic conspiracy theory against him? I think the answer is obvious, but this is all speculation atm.
I read that as a reference to OSF funding Israel-critical groups, which seems more plausible and in keeping with LT’s politics?
Morgan McSweeny defies calls to sack Keir Starmer
Why yes, tech billionaires *are* serving wild new forms of greenwashing and climate denial - featuring space and fusion reactors and AI gods. Time to update the playbooks!
Want a how-to guide? Check out my Q&A with science journo @adambecker.bsky.social @desmog.com.
www.desmog.com/2026/02/04/q...
“Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata.
Shantih shantih shantih”
He’s the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now.
The US oil lobby will target the EU's landmark climate regs in 2026, per its new policy agenda.
But US oil cos have already been leveraging Trump and trade tensions to tear apart the law behind the scenes, documents show.
My latest with @desmog.com
www.exxonknews.org/p/top-us-oil...
PSA: Here's how the anti-net zero sausage gets made:
1. Oil companies fund climate denial groups
2. which incubate fake experts
3. who write policy papers for 'think tanks'
4. which get blurbed by politicians
5. & reported uncritically by right-wing media.
Voila!
www.desmog.com/2026/01/28/c...
Israel accepts Gaza death toll compiled by health authorities is broadly accurate
PSA: Here's how the anti-net zero sausage gets made:
1. Oil companies fund climate denial groups
2. which incubate fake experts
3. who write policy papers for 'think tanks'
4. which get blurbed by politicians
5. & reported uncritically by right-wing media.
Voila!
www.desmog.com/2026/01/28/c...
🔴 NEW - Claire Coutinho Touts Anti-Net Zero Reports by Oil-Linked Authors
Tory energy chief endorses debunked studies written by fossil fuel industry interests.
@adambarnett.bsky.social
DeSmog obtained audio of Mark Carney's former chief of staff describing key goals for the PM and it's a lot less radical-sounding than Carney's recent speech at Davos
Grow oil production, sell LNG, revive NAFTA 🙄
Read more from @marylouisestuart.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2026/01/27/m...
"Bad news for society."
The latest Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) #UKPoverty2026 report paints a stark picture of the UK today:
3 in 10 children are living in poverty.
6.8 million people live in very deep poverty.
👉 Read John Bird’s response
🔴 NEW - Tory-Reform Defector Nadhim Zahawi’s Role in ‘Ultra-Luxury’ UAE Property Developer
Nigel Farage and his colleagues have close ties to the autocratic petrostate.
@adambarnett.bsky.social
🔴 Nigel Farage Racks Up £151,000 in Donor-Funded Flights to Support Donald Trump
The Reform leader has been jetting around the world to promote Trump’s climate denial agenda.
📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
2025 was an exceptional year for the Earth's climate
⬆️ Warmest ocean heat content
⬆️ Tied as second warmest surface temps
⬆️ Second warmest troposphere
⬆️ Record high sea level and GHGs
⬇️ Record low winter Arctic ice
New State of the Climate over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...
