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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Obama, climate and the audacity of hope

Fakenomcis: Obama promised to meet climate change challenge – acknowledging resistance from oil monopolies dominating US energy market.

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Keeping a close eye on Antarctic species

Scientists studying Antarctic penguins have hit upon a reliable, low cost method of data collection using the simple time-lapse camera.

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Why Lilley voted against climate action

Peter Lilley MP was among just five Parliamentarians to vote against the Climate Change Act in the Commons in 2008. Here's why.

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Lawson's climate denial political comeback

Fakenomics: The global economy was in a death spiral and Britain was at the centre of the financial tornado.

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Remember Obama's 2008 climate promises?

We recall an American presidential hopeful apparently willing to take on Koch and big oil.

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How free markets will cost the earth

Fakenomics: neoliberalism almost broke capitalism - so what might this tell us about free markets and the environment?

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Matt Ridley would turn planet into Northern Rock

A decade ago Britain was on the precipice of collapse. Matt Ridley was at Northern Rock when the crisis began. Now he wants us to listen to him on climate risks.

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The great Great Global Warming Swindle swindle

Fakenomics: The inside story of the Channel Four programme on climate change spun to promote oil friendly climate denial.

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Mystery man behind Monckton’s climate denial

The identity of the man behind Lord Monckton’s eccentric climate denial is revealed.

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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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