COP 25 Faltering, But Plenty Of Room For Hack Denier Assholes To Attend, Prevaricate, Lie

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A US thinktank with close ties to Donald Trump has obtained accreditation for a delegation of climate science deniers to the UN summit currently underway in Madrid. Organisations accredited to attend on behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which has received significant funding from oil giant ExxonMobil and the Koch family, include the UK’s Centre for Policy Studies, the Chicago-based Heartland Institute and the European Institute for Climate and Energy.

World leaders are in Madrid, Spain for this year’s two-week UN climate talks, known as COP25. A list of delegates shows the CEI had obtained accreditation for eight individuals, many of whom are known for spreading climate science denial. The list is provisional, with a final list due to be released on Friday as the conference ends.

William Happer, a retired physics professor who left Donald Trump’s National Security Council in September after failing to persuade the US president to conduct a review of mainstream climate science, is also on the list of CEI delegates.Happer directs a global network called the CO2 Coalition, which advocates for greater greenhouse gas emissions. In 2015, he was exposed offering to write a report on the benefits of carbon dioxide for a Middle Eastern oil company in an undercover investigation by Greenpeace.

Others accredited on behalf of the CEI include Rupert Darwall, a critic of renewables who wrote a book in 2017 entitled Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex. Darwall is currently a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies, which is part of a network of pro-Brexit, libertarian think tanks and lobby groups based in and around 55 Tufton Street in Westminster.

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https://www.desmogblog.com/2019/12/11/cop25-climate-science-deniers-attend-behalf-trump-affiliated-lobby-group

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1. These climate conferences are just theater

Sound and fury, signifying nothing.