A senior executive at Shell Oil has told how the Greenpeace protests at Brent Spa in 1997 fundamentally changed how the oil company acted in the world. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
Fakenomics: Frederick Seitz - paid for tobacco to attack the science linking smoking to cancer - led the charge against the UN's second major climate change report in 1995. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was established by the United Nations to gather the scientific evidence on global warming for world leaders. Immediately, it was attacked by free market think tanks funded by oil. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
Chris Packham called the People's Walk for Wildlife in Central London after growing frustrated with environmental charities and despairing at the loss of biodiversity. And he has only just begun. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports
Fakenomics: Professor Michael Mann tells of the exact moment he fully acknowledged humans were driving climate change – and how his conversion was thanks to the invention of the colour printer. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports
The Lush Christmas product launch is like the Apple Special Event - on acid. And like the 1970s, there is talk of revolution in the air. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports from Madchester*
Professor Michael Mann was part of a research team that created the iconic climate change hockey stick graph - and a scientist forever in the deniers’ crosshairs. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
The European Science and Environment Forum - set up by a staffer at the oil and tobacco funded Institute of Economic Affairs - played a vital role in the early, and vitriolic, attack on climate science. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
The once-hidden romance between Roger Bate of the free market, climate denying Institute of Economic Affairs and Big Tobacco becomes a public affair. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
John Blundell of the Institute of Economic Affairs opened the conference Environmental Risk: Perception and Reality in October 1995 - to promote climate denial. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
Fakenomics: Shell was among the first major oil companies to admit that burning fossil fuels would lead to climate change. But this was in 1995 - decades after its own scientists started raising the alarm. So was it too little, too late? BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
Fakenomics: This is the story of how John Blundell - close friend to US oil billionaires - challenged the young Roger Bate to set up the climate denying 'Environment Unit' inside free-market think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
The intimate friendship between free-market libertarian John Blundell and the oil billionaire Koch brothers was also enduring. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
John Blundell worked for the Institute of Humane Studies in the United States - a think tank funded and controlled by the oil billionaire Koch brothers. He was then hired by the Institute of Economic Affairs - Britain's first think tank - and the birthplace of UK climate denial. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
FAKENOMICS: The Institute of Economic Affairs was the first think tank in the UK to promote climate denial. This is the story of how John Blunder, its then director general, recruited British students with a flair for free market economics to the US for internships at Koch-funded think tanks. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports
Fakenomics: When free-marketeer, Friedrich von Hayek, died in 1992 he left a legacy of neoliberal think tanks that would work against climate change. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports
Fakenomics: Fred Smith has been a leading figure in the oil funded US climate denial industry. Here, he reveals the relationship between the energy industry funders and the free market think tanks who attack climate scientists. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
We take a closer look at accusations of how academic manipulation may have helped Dr Fred Singer become the most influential climate denier of his generation. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
Fakenomics: This is the story of how the ideologically matched and politically inseparable John Blundell, of oil giant Koch Industries, and the climate denier Dr Fred Singer became close allies. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports
John Blundell was welcomed into the inner circle of the Koch elite at at time of inner-family squabbling and political scandal. He gained insight into an empire run by obsession and apparent deception. Then he arrived in the UK and set up its first climate denial think tank. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
Fakenomics: Charles and David Koch own the biggest privately held oil company in the world, Koch Industries. They funded economist Friedrich Hayek and his free market think tanks. And those think tanks seeded climate denial in the UK. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reveals all...
The coal industry in the United States was the first source of funding for climate denial during the late ‘80s and ‘90s. The industry knew that its survival depended on undermining climate change science and threw its considerable influence and power into funding climate denial. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
