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Director/editor of . Served 16 years at the Guardian. Author of A Life Stripped Bare, The Final Call, Will Jellyfish Rule the World?...

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    18 Feb 2020

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  2. 8 hours ago

    And we’re very excited to have you back in the CB team, Daisy!

    Very excited to be back at in my new role of Special Correspondent from today! You can contact me about climate science, policy, food, nature and everything in between on daisy.dunne@carbonbrief.org
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  3. 16 hours ago

    Newsweek has just published a new special edition focused on climate change. It features an article written by Prince Charles where he "offers his plan to combat climate change” “...we need the mobilising urgency of a war-like footing if we are to win”

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    Jan 3

    The Net Zero ‘Scrutiny’ Group’s proposals for dealing with the gas price crisis are so absurdly partial their inadequacy becomes clear within the first five paragraphs of a story they themselves have briefed. A hopefully shortish thread…

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  5. Jan 3

    And, natch, here’s Esther McVey (one of the signatories) given a prime op-ed slot in the Sun: “...there needs to be more cheaper energy rather than always the greenest energy"

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  6. Jan 3

    Meanwhile, over in the Times…

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    Jan 3

    If you were wondering whether their media allies would follow up the next day, you'd be correct. Here's the Daily Mail's frontcover today - and the accompanying editorial...

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  8. Jan 3

    If you were wondering whether their media allies would follow up the next day, you'd be correct. Here's the Daily Mail's frontcover today - and the accompanying editorial...

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    Jan 3

    Covid conspiracy theorists turn on climate change:

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    Jan 2

    Revealed: the energy secretary met oil bosses for dinner days after COP26 to encourage them to keep drilling in the North Sea The meeting aimed to reassure industry the government wants oil & gas investment, despite pledges to move away from fossil fuels

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  12. Jan 2

    Out walking and found a fairy - or is it an angel? - fast asleep under a tree...

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  13. Jan 2

    There's a fun and revealing Venn to be drawn of the Tory MPs who are members of Net Zero Scrutiny, ERG, "Common Sense", Covid Recovery, etc etc. Here's a preview... ⚪

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    Worth comparing with the list of names in so-called APPG on "Fair Fuel" whose report at is spectacular nonsense, taken apart at
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  14. Jan 2

    Yes. The BBC has been sold a pup here, as they say. The headline alone is highly misleading and should be corrected. (eg Lord is singular and they are a small group of *Tory* MPs). And, yes, background context of these MPs is all-important...

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    Also note how is reporting this uncritically as 'MPs concerned about cost of living' with no mention of connections of these MPs and climate sceptic groups
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  15. Jan 2

    Oh, and to show just how coordinated this is behind the scenes, here's Lawson in Sunday Times. The connections (blood, ideology, media) are extraordinarily tight. And funding? The climate-sceptic lobby group GWPF, who several of them are aligned, refuses to disclose its funders

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    As opposed to over 100 in

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  17. Jan 2

    Actually, one last point about the surprisingly small number of Tory MPs who have signed this letter. The media has been briefed for months - and some have reported as fact - that this group has “about 40” members. Just spin? Or have some initial members now pulled out?

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  18. Jan 2

    Lastly, back to the tiny number of Tory MPs who have signed this new letter... Think back to Feb 2012 when a similar effort was made by Tory MPs to stop support for onshore wind farms. (Again, Sun Tel was media ally of choice.) Number of signatures? 101

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  19. Jan 2

    Editorial in Mail on Sunday (now back under the control of Paul Dacre) also calls for Boris Johnson to “tear himself away from fashionable Green concerns”. Interesting timing - on the day the UK records hottest start to January

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  20. Jan 2

    And also note how the Sunday Telegraph has run this op-ed next to the letter by climate-sceptic columnist Ross Clark, who has a long history of promoting the views of this same group of MPs. Very tight group of media and political allies working tightly together. Textbook...

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  21. Jan 2

    It's also interesting timing (from a media management point of view)... Why now? On a Bank Holiday weekend? Why not later in Jan when Parliament is back from recess? Note how, yep, the Mail on Sunday has also been used by this same group with this op-ed by Lee Anderson

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