Sky News and The Times too, have lambasted Harry's carbon-intensive jetsetting. All three publications are tied to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, which previously denied the science of climate change. Murdoch is on the advisory board of Genie Energy, an energy company that invests in oil and gas projects.
London mayor Sadiq Khan, an anti-pollution advocate, got similar treatment from The Sun, another Murdoch-owned publication, for flying 32,000 miles between 2016 and 2019 and purchasing 4.3 million paper towels in a year.
According to Michael Mann, an atmospheric science professor at Pennsylvania State University, these types of stories are part of a larger strategy: Groups that support the continued use of fossil fuels have increasingly begun to point out climate advocates' seemingly hypocritical behavior, rather than denying that climate change is real. It's one of many new strategies the fossil-fuel industry has adopted, according to Mann's latest book "The New Climate War."
Mann told Insider that in his view, "2009-2010 was the last hurrah for good old fashioned climate-change denialism." By 2019, 62% of Americans agreed that climate change was affecting their day-to-day lives.
"It's beyond not being able to deny the science," he said. "It's now a matter of having to deny reality."
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