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EPISODE · Aug 4, 2026 · 47 MIN

Merchants of doubt. The men who conspired to destroy the planet.

from Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning

In the 1980s, there were 21 days when the temperature in London reached 30 degrees. In 2026 there have been 24.In Greece, two died in a midair collision between helicopters fighting wildfires. France has seen the greatest civilian evacuation outside wartime as people flee the danger areas. And yet people will take issue with what they are seeing.On Free State we look at the movement that turned climate science into a climate debate. We examine how the methods that were used by big tobacco transferred to the climate arena. We look at how Brexit may be the model as the same alliance that drove the UK out of the EU, question the science as the world can burn so long as it doesn’t affect the bottom line Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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