Exposed: Exxon funding climate denial. Yes, again

The front page of The Times this morning is just the latest sign that the tide is once again turning against the climate denial community. The newspaper reports that ExxonMobil gave £1 million to fund “organisations that campaign against controls on greenhouse gas emissions”.

Hottest year & decade on record as Arctic sea ice faces record low

It’s hot, isn’t it? In fact, worldwide, we just had the warmest May, warmest Spring, and warmest January-May on record – that’s according to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Association (NOAA) of the US government – and that’s all despite the fact we’ve been in “the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century”.