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Phoebe Cooke

@cookephoebe

Investigative journalist | co-deputy editor @desmog UK

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calendar_today27-06-2012 12:58:14

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Alexander Fanta (@fantaalexx) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So proud to announce this 😁😁😁 - today, journalists from three media organizations – Follow the Money, EUobserver and Investigate Europe – are launching a new newsletter to expose the lack of transparency within the European Union. We call it the Secrecy Tracker. Why...

Karl Mathiesen (@karlmathiesen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Provisional list of leaders attending COP29. Macron not on it. Trudeau not on it. Biden not on it. unfccc.int/sites/default/…

Phoebe Cooke (@cookephoebe) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🔵The Conservative Party's new leader Kemi Badenoch describes herself as a 'net zero sceptic' and has received funding from the head of a climate science denial campaign. Read more from @AdamBarnett13 on DeSmog👇 desmog.com/2024/11/04/tor…

Sam Bright (@writesbright) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🔴 NEW 🔴 The EU took five senior fossil fuel execs to last year's climate talks in Dubai. They were invited, the EU claimed, because the execs were speaking at EU events. Except, as DeSmog can reveal, two of them never made an appearance 👇 desmog.com/2024/11/05/eu-…

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🔴 NEW 🔴 Opinion: The World Bank Must Stop Ploughing Funds into Factory Farming ✍️Alessandro Ramazzotti International Accountability Project (IAP) desmog.com/2024/11/15/wor…

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🔴 NEW 🔴 World’s Biggest Meatpacker JBS Wants Public Money to Fight Climate Change Analysis by Gil Alessi 👇 desmog.com/2024/11/18/wor…

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🔴 NEW 🔴 UK Platforms World’s Largest Offshore Drilling Firm at COP29 Climate Summit Companies with major oil and gas interests have been given a stage at the UK pavilion in Baku. 📝 Sam Bright desmog.com/2024/11/19/uk-…

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🔴 NEW 🔴 Hungary COP29 Climate Delegates Linked to State Oil Company ✍️@adambarnett13 desmog.com/2024/11/20/hun…

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🔴 NEW 🔴 Richard Tice’s constituency is the second most exposed to climate change in England, according to the insurance giant AXA. Meanwhile, Tice is a climate science denier who says CO2 is “plant food” desmog.com/2024/11/27/cli…

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🔴 NEW 🔴 Nitrates Derogation is a ‘Con’, Says Ireland’s Farmers Ahead of tomorrow's snap election, dairy producers tell Irish government to step off the 'treadmill' of unsustainable milk production – and share a more holistic vision. ✍️Phoebe Cooke desmog.com/2024/11/28/nit…

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🔴 NEW 🔴 Industry-backed Emissions Metric Could ‘Completely Derail’ Climate Action, Campaigners Warn ✍️Rachel Sherrington desmog.com/2024/12/06/ind…

Met Office (@metoffice) 's Twitter Profile Photo

2024 has recorded the highest temperature in any year since 1850 🌡🌍 This is the 11th year in succession that has equalled or exceeded 1.0°C above the pre-industrial average period A number of centres released their estimates today: metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-… #GetClimateReady

Simon Evans (@drsimevans) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NEW ANALYSIS: Right-leaning UK newspaper editorials have relentlessly attacked energy secretary Ed Miliband since last year's election, calling him "hysterical", a "madman" & "demented" The papers have also published a record number of editorials opposing climate action… 1/2

NEW ANALYSIS:

Right-leaning UK newspaper editorials have relentlessly attacked energy secretary Ed Miliband since last year's election, calling him "hysterical", a "madman" & "demented"

The papers have also published a record number of editorials opposing climate action…
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🔴 MAPPED: Donald Trump’s Transatlantic Anti-Green Network Politicians, donors, think tanks, and media outlets in the UK and U.S. are working increasingly closely to scupper climate policies and promote fossil fuel extraction. desmog.com/2025/01/21/map…

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🔴 NEW 🔴 U.S. Climate Denial Group Using Far-Right to Attack EU Green Policies The pro-Trump Heartland Institute claims it spearheaded opposition to a flagship European nature law 👇 desmog.com/2025/01/22/usa…

Jess Ralston (@jessralston2) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Some, erm, *interesting* analysis from EUA (a gas lobby group) in the The Telegraph today about heat pumps DESNZ has dismissed it outright: "We don't recognise these speculative & misleading figures" Some other reasons to take it with a pinch of salt 👇🧵

Some, erm, *interesting* analysis from EUA (a gas lobby group) in the <a href="/Telegraph/">The Telegraph</a> today about heat pumps 

DESNZ has dismissed it outright: "We don't recognise these speculative &amp; misleading figures"

Some other reasons to take it with a pinch of salt 👇🧵
Jess Ralston (@jessralston2) 's Twitter Profile Photo

⚠️ An oft-debunked myth is circulating again: "domestically produced gas is four times cleaner than LNG imports" This claim has come recently from the boss of UK fracking company Cuadrilla (shock) As a reminder, here's why that's not accurate... 🧵

⚠️ An oft-debunked myth is circulating again:

"domestically produced gas is four times cleaner than LNG imports"

This claim has come recently from the boss of UK fracking company Cuadrilla (shock)

As a reminder, here's why that's not accurate... 🧵
DeSmog (@desmog) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🔴 NEW 🔴 Russia ‘Spread Conspiracy Theories and Attacked Climate Scientists in Poland’ False narratives spread through state-owned news sites and social media bots, report finds. desmog.com/2025/02/03/rus…