Climate Denial: Coming To a Stage Near You!

 

It seems odd timing, given the US devastation produced by the Los Angeles fires. But a US climate denial lobby group is extending its 'business' to Europe. Heartland UK/Europe has opened its doors in London. The body receives funding from the oil giant ExxonMobile and a slew of wealthy US Republican donors. They proclaim that climate change is a 'scam' (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/15/farage-and-truss-attend-uk-launch-of-us-climate-denial-group-heartland). There is, of course, a 'scam'. The scam is claiming that climate change has nothing to do with fossil fuel emissions and that attempts to limit their impact, is a cunning ploy to make the general population poorer. Oil companies need to continue to 'drill baby, drill' to add to their already massive profits. The only way the general population is made poorer, is if they have to pick up the costs of attempts to limit climate change and/or the damage produced by extreme weather events. The polluters should pay (they can afford to)! The collection of right wing politicians, clustering around Heartland UK/Europe's launch, presumably see opportunities to benefit from the generated misinformation.