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But no matter the evidence, the climate deniers are planning for one last stand

Two people from polar opposites of the political and ecological spectrum are in the news.

No wonder Trump and the Republicans are excited at Boris Johnson becoming the UK Prime Minister. He is one of their own. He is cut from the same cloth. He is a climate denier.

Trump's talk is entitled “America’s Environmental Leadership”, despite the fact that his Administration has pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement, denies the climate crisis, promotes fossil fuels at all costs, and is gutting dozens upon dozens of environmental regulations.

OPEC concedes that climate campaigners are "perhaps the greatest threat to our industry going forward".

To coincide with the G20 summit last week, thousands of activists from around the world - in Japan, Indonesia, India, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Australia, the US - mobilized to protest against Japan’s continued financing of dirty coal.

One of Britain’s biggest fund managers has started selling shares in Exxon Mobil, "saying America’s largest oil company isn’t doing enough to address climate change.”

A document from the early nineties reveals that Mobil was worried about climate change and secondly it was already funding groups with the intention of obfuscating the debate.

No matter how much spin they put on it, Canada is heading for its Kodak-climate moment.

The Trump Administration is redoubling its assault on the climate. Part of that is trying to redefine fossil fuels as “molecules of U.S. freedom” and “freedom gas.”