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Trump is opening his administration to fracking billionaires, oil lobbyists and far-right climate deniers. Our global team of investigative reporters is tracking the damage.
Here's a starter pack of DeSmog investigators and some of the climate disinfo journalists we follow.
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Here's a starter pack of DeSmog investigators and some of the climate disinfo journalists we follow.
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Good piece by @desmog.com on the Telegraph’s record of having to issue ‘corrections’ on its stories about climate change (and yes, there’s some quotes from me) www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/t...
The Telegraph’s Record of Climate Falsehoods
The Telegraph, which has accused the BBC of bias and a lack of editorial rigour, has been forced to amend a swathe of climate inaccuracies. The BBC’s director-general and CEO resigned this weekend aft...
www.desmog.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Good piece by @desmog.com on the Telegraph’s record of having to issue ‘corrections’ on its stories about climate change (and yes, there’s some quotes from me) www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/t...
🔴 The Telegraph’s Record of Climate Falsehoods
The newspaper has been scolding the BBC for its editorial failings, while issuing a string of climate corrections.
📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
The newspaper has been scolding the BBC for its editorial failings, while issuing a string of climate corrections.
📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
The Telegraph’s Record of Climate Falsehoods
The Telegraph, which has accused the BBC of bias and a lack of editorial rigour, has been forced to amend a swathe of climate inaccuracies. The BBC’s director-general and CEO resigned this weekend aft...
www.desmog.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
🔴 The Telegraph’s Record of Climate Falsehoods
The newspaper has been scolding the BBC for its editorial failings, while issuing a string of climate corrections.
📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
The newspaper has been scolding the BBC for its editorial failings, while issuing a string of climate corrections.
📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
🔴 NEW | U.S. Dairy Industry Push to Water Down Global Emissions Framework
Revelations come as industry expected to gather at this year’s #COP30 summit in Belém, Brazil
📝 Latest from @clarecarlile.bsky.social👇
www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/r...
Revelations come as industry expected to gather at this year’s #COP30 summit in Belém, Brazil
📝 Latest from @clarecarlile.bsky.social👇
www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/r...
Revealed: U.S. Dairy Industry Push to Water Down Global Emissions Framework
Trade associations representing some of the largest dairy companies in the world have coordinated efforts to weaken international standards for how corporations measure their carbon emissions. Expert...
www.desmog.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
🔴 NEW | U.S. Dairy Industry Push to Water Down Global Emissions Framework
Revelations come as industry expected to gather at this year’s #COP30 summit in Belém, Brazil
📝 Latest from @clarecarlile.bsky.social👇
www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/r...
Revelations come as industry expected to gather at this year’s #COP30 summit in Belém, Brazil
📝 Latest from @clarecarlile.bsky.social👇
www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/r...
buff.ly/d87k7Ek 🚨New: How did Shell sell more petrol in Brazil? By getting UK-owned ad agency VML to create a soap opera-style campaign with a plot based on Shell's electric charging points. The ads didn't point out that such chargers are available at less than 1 percent of Shell garages in Brazil.
Revealed: Soap Opera-inspired Clean Energy Ads Helped Shell Boost Petrol Sales in Brazil
British-owned VML used positivity of clean energy to build brand awareness that increased fuel sales, documents show.
www.desmog.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
buff.ly/d87k7Ek 🚨New: How did Shell sell more petrol in Brazil? By getting UK-owned ad agency VML to create a soap opera-style campaign with a plot based on Shell's electric charging points. The ads didn't point out that such chargers are available at less than 1 percent of Shell garages in Brazil.
🔴 New IEA Boss Lord Frost’s Record of Climate Science Denial
The former Brexit negotiator runs an “educational” charity while denying climate facts.
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
The former Brexit negotiator runs an “educational” charity while denying climate facts.
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
New IEA Boss Lord Frost’s Record of Climate Science Denial
Lord David Frost has been announced as the new director-general of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), the influential anti-government lobby group. The IEA’s press release hailed the former Brexi...
www.desmog.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
🔴 New IEA Boss Lord Frost’s Record of Climate Science Denial
The former Brexit negotiator runs an “educational” charity while denying climate facts.
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
The former Brexit negotiator runs an “educational” charity while denying climate facts.
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
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🔴 NEW - Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, flogged its tech to the oil industry in Brazil on the eve of the COP30 summit
📝 Great scoop by @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com 👇🏻
📝 Great scoop by @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com 👇🏻
Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30
As world leaders prepared to descend on the small city of Belém in the Brazilian Amazon for the COP30 climate summit, artificial intelligence (AI) chip-manufacturer Nvidia was instead peddling its ene...
www.desmog.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🔴 NEW - Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, flogged its tech to the oil industry in Brazil on the eve of the COP30 summit
📝 Great scoop by @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com 👇🏻
📝 Great scoop by @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com 👇🏻
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Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30
The tech giant was in Rio de Janeiro hawking AI software to fossil fuel firms just days before crucial climate crisis negotiations in the Amazon.
My reporting today @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/11/07/n...
The tech giant was in Rio de Janeiro hawking AI software to fossil fuel firms just days before crucial climate crisis negotiations in the Amazon.
My reporting today @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/11/07/n...
Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30
As world leaders prepared to descend on the small city of Belém in the Brazilian Amazon for the COP30 climate summit, artificial intelligence (AI) chip-manufacturer Nvidia was instead peddling its ene...
www.desmog.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30
The tech giant was in Rio de Janeiro hawking AI software to fossil fuel firms just days before crucial climate crisis negotiations in the Amazon.
My reporting today @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/11/07/n...
The tech giant was in Rio de Janeiro hawking AI software to fossil fuel firms just days before crucial climate crisis negotiations in the Amazon.
My reporting today @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/11/07/n...
🔴 NEW - Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30
The tech giant was in Rio de Janeiro hawking AI software to fossil fuel firms just days before crucial climate crisis negotiations in the Amazon.
📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
The tech giant was in Rio de Janeiro hawking AI software to fossil fuel firms just days before crucial climate crisis negotiations in the Amazon.
📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30
As world leaders prepared to descend on the small city of Belém in the Brazilian Amazon for the COP30 climate summit, artificial intelligence (AI) chip-manufacturer Nvidia was instead peddling its ene...
www.desmog.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
🔴 NEW - Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30
The tech giant was in Rio de Janeiro hawking AI software to fossil fuel firms just days before crucial climate crisis negotiations in the Amazon.
📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
The tech giant was in Rio de Janeiro hawking AI software to fossil fuel firms just days before crucial climate crisis negotiations in the Amazon.
📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
🔴 NEW - Charity Commission Demands More Transparency and Neutrality from IEA
The regulator’s findings came a day before the Tufton Street group appointed a climate denial peer as its new boss.
📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
The regulator’s findings came a day before the Tufton Street group appointed a climate denial peer as its new boss.
📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
Charity Commission Demands More Transparency and Neutrality from IEA
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), the anti-state pressure group, must implement reforms to be more transparent and less politically biased, according to the charities regulator. The Charity Com...
www.desmog.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
🔴 NEW - Charity Commission Demands More Transparency and Neutrality from IEA
The regulator’s findings came a day before the Tufton Street group appointed a climate denial peer as its new boss.
📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
The regulator’s findings came a day before the Tufton Street group appointed a climate denial peer as its new boss.
📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
buff.ly/hAYRYZf With the COP30 climate talks about to open in Brazil, why are the UK's advertising and PR agencies failing to reckon with their role in the crisis? Victoria Harvey unpacks the interplay of vested interests and institutional capture in a guest essay for DeSmog.
Why the UK Advertising Industry Remains in Climate Denial
With the COP30 climate talks about to open in Brazil, advertising agencies are failing to reckon with their role in the climate crisis.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
buff.ly/hAYRYZf With the COP30 climate talks about to open in Brazil, why are the UK's advertising and PR agencies failing to reckon with their role in the crisis? Victoria Harvey unpacks the interplay of vested interests and institutional capture in a guest essay for DeSmog.
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Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
By @rtakver.bsky.social @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
By @rtakver.bsky.social @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
www.desmog.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
By @rtakver.bsky.social @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
By @rtakver.bsky.social @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
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“Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg" by Rei Takver for @desmog.com:
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
www.desmog.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM
“Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg" by Rei Takver for @desmog.com:
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
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@desmog.com reviewed US tax records which show Bill Gates’ charity has donated more than $3.5 million to a think tank run by Danish academic and climate crisis denier Bjørn Lomborg www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
www.desmog.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:08 AM
@desmog.com reviewed US tax records which show Bill Gates’ charity has donated more than $3.5 million to a think tank run by Danish academic and climate crisis denier Bjørn Lomborg www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
🔴 NEW 🔴 Lomborg for years has argued in op-eds, lectures, and the media that there are more important global issues to prioritize than climate change, writing in April that “it is not the existential threat that some would have us believe.”
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
buff.ly
November 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
🔴 NEW 🔴 Lomborg for years has argued in op-eds, lectures, and the media that there are more important global issues to prioritize than climate change, writing in April that “it is not the existential threat that some would have us believe.”
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Recommended read 👀
GREENWASHING GLOSSARY: With agriculture high on the COP30 agenda, @desmog.com published a list of “big agwashing” buzzwords to watch out for.
GREENWASHING GLOSSARY: With agriculture high on the COP30 agenda, @desmog.com published a list of “big agwashing” buzzwords to watch out for.
Look Out for These 8 Big Ag Greenwashing Terms at COP30
Food and farming companies will claim agriculture is the solution to the climate crisis at the Brazil summit — even though the sector drives a third of global warming.
www.desmog.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Recommended read 👀
GREENWASHING GLOSSARY: With agriculture high on the COP30 agenda, @desmog.com published a list of “big agwashing” buzzwords to watch out for.
GREENWASHING GLOSSARY: With agriculture high on the COP30 agenda, @desmog.com published a list of “big agwashing” buzzwords to watch out for.
🔴 NEW - ‘Deluge’ of Disinformation on TikTok and YouTube Following Historic Flood
Falsehoods about the flooding in Valencia last year were seen by millions on social media, new research finds.
📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social
Falsehoods about the flooding in Valencia last year were seen by millions on social media, new research finds.
📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social
‘Deluge’ of Disinformation on TikTok and YouTube Following Historic Flood
YouTube and TikTok amplified disinformation that “sowed confusion” during the worst flood in Spain’s history, according to a new report. A year’s worth of rain fell in just eight hours on Valencia in ...
www.desmog.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
🔴 NEW - ‘Deluge’ of Disinformation on TikTok and YouTube Following Historic Flood
Falsehoods about the flooding in Valencia last year were seen by millions on social media, new research finds.
📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social
Falsehoods about the flooding in Valencia last year were seen by millions on social media, new research finds.
📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social
🔴 NEW: Intensive Livestock Farms Fail to Declare Climate Impacts in ‘Emissions Scandal’
Data by @sustainweb.org reveals how councils are giving green light to large-scale pig and poultry farms with patchy or non-existent climate data.
📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/i...
Data by @sustainweb.org reveals how councils are giving green light to large-scale pig and poultry farms with patchy or non-existent climate data.
📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/i...
Intensive Livestock Farms Fail to Declare Climate Impacts in ‘Emissions Scandal’
Plans for intensive livestock “megafarms” are omitting crucial climate impacts, it can be revealed. Campaigners last year celebrated a “beginning of the end” to polluting factory farming, after the la...
www.desmog.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
🔴 NEW: Intensive Livestock Farms Fail to Declare Climate Impacts in ‘Emissions Scandal’
Data by @sustainweb.org reveals how councils are giving green light to large-scale pig and poultry farms with patchy or non-existent climate data.
📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/i...
Data by @sustainweb.org reveals how councils are giving green light to large-scale pig and poultry farms with patchy or non-existent climate data.
📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/i...
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“Starmer’s investment deals with US big tech threaten to give them priority access to our resources – energy, water & personal data – rather than using these resources to meet public need. They’ll drive a coach & horses through our climate commitments”
Pleased to be quoted👇
Pleased to be quoted👇
🔴 NEW - Labour’s Big Tech Love Affair Could Blow Up Its Climate Promises
The government has signed vast deals with gas-loving, Trump-donating AI giants.
📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
The government has signed vast deals with gas-loving, Trump-donating AI giants.
📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
Labour’s Big Tech Love Affair Could Blow Up Its Climate Promises
When U.S. President Donald Trump landed for what he called the “exquisite honour” of an unprecedented second state visit to the UK this September, he brought along a retinue of his favourite Silicon V...
www.desmog.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
“Starmer’s investment deals with US big tech threaten to give them priority access to our resources – energy, water & personal data – rather than using these resources to meet public need. They’ll drive a coach & horses through our climate commitments”
Pleased to be quoted👇
Pleased to be quoted👇
👑 New👑 Prince William's signature environmental charity — The Earthshot Prize — is gathering in Rio on Wednesday. TJ Jordan reports for DeSmog on ties between Earthshot's PR agency and Petrobras, Brazil's state oil company. #climate #COP30
Revealed: Prince William’s Climate Prize Hired PR Firm Tied to Brazilian Fossil Fuel Industry
The agency — LLYC Brasil —promoted upcoming Earthshot Prize ceremony in Rio de Janeiro while under contract to oil giant Petrobras.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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"Prince William’s prestigious climate prize hired a Brazilian public relations firm that was also under contract to the country’s state oil company Petrobras, which is facing criticism for its plans to drill in the Amazon basin"
@tjjordan.bsky.social in @desmog.com >
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/r...
@tjjordan.bsky.social in @desmog.com >
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/r...
November 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
"Prince William’s prestigious climate prize hired a Brazilian public relations firm that was also under contract to the country’s state oil company Petrobras, which is facing criticism for its plans to drill in the Amazon basin"
@tjjordan.bsky.social in @desmog.com >
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/r...
@tjjordan.bsky.social in @desmog.com >
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/r...
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NEW: Records obtained by @desmog.com and @geoffdembicki.bsky.social detail how Exxon helped fund and spread climate change denial in Latin America — a stunning revelation ahead of #COP30 in Belém, Brazil.
‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
www.desmog.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
NEW: Records obtained by @desmog.com and @geoffdembicki.bsky.social detail how Exxon helped fund and spread climate change denial in Latin America — a stunning revelation ahead of #COP30 in Belém, Brazil.
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I spent a really long time amassing everything you need to know about Labour's vast deals with fossil gas-loving, Trump-donating AI giants out to pepper the world with climate-wrecking data centres...so you don't have to!
My reporting for @desmog.com 📖👇
My reporting for @desmog.com 📖👇
The sheer scale of Labour's deals with Trump-donating Big Tech firms has been seriously under-reported.
Not only are they being allowed to build climate-wrecking data centres, they've also been given permission to embed their tech within Whitehall, the NHS, and defence 👇👇
📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
Not only are they being allowed to build climate-wrecking data centres, they've also been given permission to embed their tech within Whitehall, the NHS, and defence 👇👇
📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
Labour’s Big Tech Love Affair Could Blow Up Its Climate Promises
When U.S. President Donald Trump landed for what he called the “exquisite honour” of an unprecedented second state visit to the UK this September, he brought along a retinue of his favourite Silicon V...
www.desmog.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I spent a really long time amassing everything you need to know about Labour's vast deals with fossil gas-loving, Trump-donating AI giants out to pepper the world with climate-wrecking data centres...so you don't have to!
My reporting for @desmog.com 📖👇
My reporting for @desmog.com 📖👇
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The sheer scale of Labour's deals with Trump-donating Big Tech firms has been seriously under-reported.
Not only are they being allowed to build climate-wrecking data centres, they've also been given permission to embed their tech within Whitehall, the NHS, and defence 👇👇
📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
Not only are they being allowed to build climate-wrecking data centres, they've also been given permission to embed their tech within Whitehall, the NHS, and defence 👇👇
📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
Labour’s Big Tech Love Affair Could Blow Up Its Climate Promises
When U.S. President Donald Trump landed for what he called the “exquisite honour” of an unprecedented second state visit to the UK this September, he brought along a retinue of his favourite Silicon V...
www.desmog.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The sheer scale of Labour's deals with Trump-donating Big Tech firms has been seriously under-reported.
Not only are they being allowed to build climate-wrecking data centres, they've also been given permission to embed their tech within Whitehall, the NHS, and defence 👇👇
📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
Not only are they being allowed to build climate-wrecking data centres, they've also been given permission to embed their tech within Whitehall, the NHS, and defence 👇👇
📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
🔴 NEW - Labour’s Big Tech Love Affair Could Blow Up Its Climate Promises
The government has signed vast deals with gas-loving, Trump-donating AI giants.
📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
The government has signed vast deals with gas-loving, Trump-donating AI giants.
📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
Labour’s Big Tech Love Affair Could Blow Up Its Climate Promises
When U.S. President Donald Trump landed for what he called the “exquisite honour” of an unprecedented second state visit to the UK this September, he brought along a retinue of his favourite Silicon V...
www.desmog.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
🔴 NEW - Labour’s Big Tech Love Affair Could Blow Up Its Climate Promises
The government has signed vast deals with gas-loving, Trump-donating AI giants.
📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
The government has signed vast deals with gas-loving, Trump-donating AI giants.
📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
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Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.com.
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
www.desmog.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.com.
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...