Roger Bate recruited fellow economics student Julian Morris into free market, climate denying think tanks - but after 2005 they went their separate ways.
Lord Lawson's think tank became a beacon of light around which the industries most affected by the new Kyoto Protocol met to discuss strategies to deal with the international agreement
Fakenomcis: Lord Browne took to the podium at Stanford University on 19 May 1997 and called for oil companies to face the challenge of climate change - more than two decades ago.
A senior executive at Shell Oil has told how the Greenpeace protests at Brent Spa in 1997 fundamentally changed how the oil company acted in the world. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
Fakenomics: Frederick Seitz - paid for tobacco to attack the science linking smoking to cancer - led the charge against the UN's second major climate change report in 1995. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was established by the United Nations to gather the scientific evidence on global warming for world leaders. Immediately, it was attacked by free market think tanks funded by oil. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
Fakenomics: Professor Michael Mann tells of the exact moment he fully acknowledged humans were driving climate change – and how his conversion was thanks to the invention of the colour printer. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports
Professor Michael Mann was part of a research team that created the iconic climate change hockey stick graph - and a scientist forever in the deniers’ crosshairs. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
The treasury minister was speaking on the same day the Cato Institute called for softer environmental rules and NHS competition. JAMES BELL at Unearthed reports
The European Science and Environment Forum - set up by a staffer at the oil and tobacco funded Institute of Economic Affairs - played a vital role in the early, and vitriolic, attack on climate science. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
The once-hidden romance between Roger Bate of the free market, climate denying Institute of Economic Affairs and Big Tobacco becomes a public affair. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
John Blundell of the Institute of Economic Affairs opened the conference Environmental Risk: Perception and Reality in October 1995 - to promote climate denial. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates