Irish Climate Science Forum

The Irish Climate Science Forum (ICSF) Background The Irish Climate Science Forum (ICSF) was founded in 2016 and initially launched at an event on May 4, 2017 in Dublin. According to its website, ICSF is “committed to identifying and disseminating the latest […]

Graham Stringer

Graham Stringer Credentials Background Graham Stringer is a Labour MP for Blackley and Broughton and trustee of the UK climate science denial think tank the Global Warming Policy Foundation. Stringer is also part of a close-knit network of pro-Brexit climate science deniers, having served on the board of the official Vote Leave campaign during the […]

Cuadrilla Resources

Cuadrilla Resources Background Cuadrilla Resources is a UK oil and gas exploration company. Founded in 2007, Cuadrilla has been at the vanguard of efforts to exploit Britain’s shale gas resources. The company’s CEO is Francis Egan. The company is owned, as of March 2016, partly by Australian engineering firm AJ Lucas (45 percent), Anglo-American equity firm […]

Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson Credentials Background Boris Johnson is the current Prime Minister of the UK, having been elected to lead in the Conservative Party in July 2019. Johnson resigned as Foreign Secretary a year before, holding the position since July 2016. Formerly Mayor of London, Johnson took a leading role in the EU referendum, endorsing the […]

Horace Cooper

Horace Cooper Credentials Background Horace Cooper is a senior fellow at the Heartland Institute. He is also a director of the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), where he co-chairs Project 21’s National Advisory Board. According to his staff profile, Cooper is also an adjunct fellow with the NCPPR and “averages over 400 talk radio appearances per year representing Project […]

Terence Mordaunt

Terence Mordaunt Credentials Background Terence Mordaunt is the owner and chairman of First Corporate Shipping, the trading name of Bristol Port. In December 2019, Mordaunt became chairman of the UK’s principal climate science denial campaign group the Global Warming Policy Foundation, after having served as director of its advocacy arm, the Global Warming Policy Forum […]

Sir James Spooner (Deceased)

Sir James Spooner (Deceased) Credentials Background Sir James Spooner was an honorary treasurer and trustee of the UK think tank the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), a group founded by climate science denier Nigel Lawson with the purpose of combating what Lawson has described as “extremely damaging and harmful policies” designed to mitigate climate change.1“Sir […]

Sammy Wilson

Sammy Wilson Credentials Background Sammy Wilson is an MP for Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) for East Antrim. He is a former environment minister and one of the DUP’s most controversial figures when it comes to climate change.1 “Sammy’s Biography,” Sammy Wilson. Archived December 7, 2018. Archive.fo URL: https://archive.fo/AGsOZ Until Brexit, the DUP hadn’t […]

Piers Corbyn

Piers Corbyn Credentials Background Piers Corbyn is an astrophysicist who regularly speaks at climate science denial events. He is founder and director of the weather forecasting company WeatherAction. 2James Walker. “Channel 4 […]

Owen Paterson

Owen Paterson Credentials Background Owen Paterson is MP for North Shropshire and a former environment secretary. He was appointed to the role in 2012 but was sacked by then prime minister David Cameron for fear his view that climate change was not a serious problem would cost the Conservative party votes in the 2015 general […]