Roger Bate recruited fellow economics student Julian Morris into free market, climate denying think tanks - but after 2005 they went their separate ways.
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
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