Brendan Montague

The Ecologist

Brendan Montague is editor of The Ecologist, founder of Request Initiative and co-author of Impact of Market Forces on Addictive Substances and Behaviours: The web of influence of addictive industries (Oxford University Press). He tweets at @EcoMontague.

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Climate deniers rallied against Stern Review

Fakenomics: Climate deniers manufactured a backlash to the influential Stern Review - which called climate change the greatest market failure ever seen.

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Lawson brought climate denial to House of Lords

Lord Lawson would command the admiration and gratitude of the denial cause when he raised the economics of climate change in the House of Lords.

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Circular economy to combat food waste

The dual problem of waste and scarcity is prompting a return to circular economic thinking.

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Koch backed lawyer and Euro climate denial

Fakenomics: European 'sceptic' and climate denier Benny Peiser teamed up with Washington lawyer Chris Horner to bring down the Kyoto Protocol.

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The Exxon funded fossil fuel apologist

Fakenomics: Richard D North, an environmental journalist who blamed climate change on consumers rather oil companies, took cash from ExxonMobil.

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'We demand a plastic free budget'

Surfers Against Sewage calls on Philip Hammond, the chancellor, to use tax system to tackle single-use plastic in his forthcoming Autumn Budget.

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How Exxon-funded UK think tank attacked Kyoto

Fakenomics: Julian Morris and his International Policy Network attacked the Kyoto Protocol - while being secretly funded by ExxonMobil.

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The marxist turned climate change denier

Dr Benny Peiser changed from Marxist radical to director of Lord Lawson’s climate denial charity, the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

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Accelerating London's circular economy start-ups

Support and mentoring available for new circular economy start-ups working in the construction industry.

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Climate denier pioneers Morris and Bate fall out

Roger Bate recruited fellow economics student Julian Morris into free market, climate denying think tanks - but after 2005 they went their separate ways.

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The love, the anger and the oil funding

Fakenomics: Julian Morris was Britain's leading climate denier in 2003 - and his think tank was secretly funded by ExxonMobil.

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When US senator Jim Inhofe called climate change a hoax

Fakenomcis: Inhofe’s infamous ‘climate hoax’ Senate speech was basically funded by the oil baron Koch brothers.

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PCB pollution threatens to wipe out killer whales

PCBs remain a deadly threat more than forty years since the first initiatives to ban these chemical pollutants.

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How David Henderson became an IPCC foe

David Henderson, a founder of the climate denying Global Warming Policy Foundation, has died. This is the inside story of his battle with the IPCC.

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Fracking three freed

Simon Roscoe Blevins, Richards Roberts and Richard Loizou will be released from prison later today.

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Governments must tackle meat over-consumption

Reducing meat and dairy consumption is essential for meeting climate targets.

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Who drove Thatcher's climate change u-turn?

Margaret Thatcher flipped from environmental advocate to climate change denier.

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Exxon funnelled denier cash through think tanks

Fakenomics: Oil giant funds climate deniers in vicious assault on hockey stick author Professor Michael Mann.

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ExxonMobil set back climate policy by decades

Fakenomics: The penetrating impact ExxonMobil had on US energy policy during the Bush era.

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How ExxonMobil had an IPCC chairman fired

Fakenomics: The IPCC has now released a dire warning about the future of the planet. Exxon worked hard to stop this happening earlier.

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ExxonMobil climate denial funding seeps into the UK

Fakenomics: Free-market zealots Roger Bate and Julian Morris were secret beneficiaries of ExxonMobil’s spending bonanza.

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When Exxon went to war with the Royal Society

The venerable society oil industry objected to the propaganda being sent to school children.

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The White House, the climate task force, the scientist and the denier

Fakenomics: Professor James Hansen was squeezed out of the White House environmental debate by free market ideologue and denier.

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Why did George W Bush pull out of the Kyoto Protocol?

President Donald Trump wants to pull out of the Paris Agreement. But this is business as usual - George W Bush pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol.

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