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Is this the UK's least climate-friendly cabinet ever?

Let's go through it... ✍️

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Boris Johnson (PM) desmog.co.uk/boris-johnson

👉Consults climate denier Piers Corbyn (see desmog.co.uk/piers-corbyn
👉Took money from climate denial funder desmog.co.uk/2019/07/23/bor…
👉Saw snow outside and dismissed global warming web.archive.org/web/2019010923…
Jacob Rees-Mogg (Leader of the Commons) desmog.co.uk/jacob-rees-mogg

👉 Claimed that “climate alarmism” is responsible for high energy prices
👉 Said effect of CO2 on climate change "remains much debated"
👉Held £££ investments in mining and oil and gas firms
Dominic Raab (Foreign Secretary) desmog.co.uk/2018/07/09/int…

👉 Served Leave Means Leave with climate deniers including Peter Lilley and Owen Paterson
👉Published articles for Taxpayers' Alliance, which is lobbying to cut the climate change levy
👉Voted against a decarb target
Michael Gove (Cabinet Office) desmog.co.uk/michael-gove

👉Read "with concern" a GWPF report about "activist" teachers teaching climate change
👉Close ally of Tufton outfit the IEA, which lobbies on behalf of Big Oil
✅Appeared to have undergone a 'shy green' conversion as Env Sec
Grant Shapps (Transport Secretary):

👉 Wrote a report claiming lights would go out due to a lack of coal power desmog.co.uk/2016/12/19/tor…
👉That report's lead researcher worked for Tufton St outfit Business for Britain desmog.co.uk/business-brita…
👉Quotes GWPF advisor Matt Ridley
Sajid Javid (Chancellor):

👉 Upheld decision to allow fracking to continue in Lancashire saying it was compatible with climate policy desmog.co.uk/2016/10/09/her…
👉 Matthew Elliott, founder of Tufton outfit the TPA and chair of Vote Leave was on campaign team desmog.co.uk/matthew-elliott
Andrea Leadsom (Business Secretary) desmog.co.uk/andrea-leadsom

👉 On becoming energy minister, asked "is climate change real?" and "is fracking safe?"
👉Said there was "no chance" the UK could move away from fossil fuels in the short term
✅ Said she'd declare a climate emergency
For more on the pro-Brexit, anti-climate network now running the country, see @DeSmogUK's massive map desmog.co.uk/2019/06/07/bre…
For more on these characters' (mis)deed, check out DeSmog's Climate Disinformation Database 🧐desmog.co.uk/global-warming…
And if you appreciate the work @DeSmogUK has done tracking these figures for years, and want to keep us doing it, please consider becoming a patron today patreon.com/DeSmog_UK 🙏
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