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</div><div><h2 id="h-background" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; line-height: 1.2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Background</h2>Climate Exit (Clexit) is a climate science denial group formed shortly after the UK’s decision to leave the EU. According to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160804173707/http://clexit.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/clexit.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: none;">Clexit’s founding statement (PDF)</a>, “The world must abandon this suicidal Global Warming crusade. Man does not and cannot control the climate.” <a href="https://www.desmog.com/clexit/#s1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: none;">[1]</a>As <a href="http://www.desmog.com/2016/06/13/mapped-cosy-relationship-climate-euro-sceptic-bubble-55-tufton-street-brexit-less-climate-action" target="blank" rel="noopener" data-wpel-link="internal" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">DeSmogUK</a> and <a href="http://www.climatechangenews.com/2016/06/13/meet-the-climate-sceptics-backing-the-brexit-campaign/" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">Climate Home</a> reported, many of the UK‘s leading “Leave” campaigners also have a history of promoting climate science denial. <a href="https://www.desmog.com/clexit/#s2" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">[2]</a>, <a href="https://www.desmog.com/clexit/#s3" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">[3]</a><a href="https://www.desmog.com/viv-forbes" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">Viv Forbes</a>, an Australian climate science denier and a director of Stanmore Coal, serves as secretary of Clexit. Other notable climate science deniers serving on the “Clexit Committee” include <a href="https://www.desmog.com/christopher-monckton" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">Christopher Monckton</a> (President) and <a href="https://www.desmog.com/marc-morano" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">Marc Morano</a> (Vice President).Introducing Clexit’s founding statement, Forbes announced that the enforcement of the Paris climate treaty would be “a global tragedy”:<blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; position: relative; margin-top: 10px;">“For the EU and the rest of the Western world, ratification and enforcement of the Paris Treaty (and all the other associated decrees and Agendas) would herald the end of low-cost hydrocarbon transport and electricity, and the exit of their manufacturing, processing and refining industries to countries with low-cost energy,” Forbes said. “Carbon dioxide does not control the climate. It is an essential plant food and more carbon dioxide will produce more plant growth and a greener globe.” <a href="https://www.desmog.com/clexit/#s1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">[1]</a></blockquote><a href="https://www.desmog.com/2016/08/03/after-brexit-climate-science-denialists-form-new-group-call-clexit" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">As DeSmog reports</a>, another key member of Clexit’s “60 well-informed science, business and economic leaders” is <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Hugh_Morgan" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">Hugh Morgan</a>, a former board member of the Reserve Bank of Australia and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20020222202737/http://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/japan/aj_conf/hm.html" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">former CEO of Western Mining Corporation</a> with close ties to Australia’s Liberal party. <a href="https://www.desmog.com/clexit/#s4" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">[4]</a>, <a href="https://www.desmog.com/clexit/#s4" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">[5]</a>According to Clive Hamilton’s book <a href="http://clivehamilton.com/books/scorcher/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: none;">Scorcher: The Dirty Politics of Climate Change</a>, Hugh Morgan was a central industry figure in building opposition to climate action within the Liberal Party in the 1990s and early 2000s. Morgan was also the president of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lavoisier_Group" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: none;">Lavoisier Group</a>, an organisation that fought against ratification of a previous UN climate agreement, the Kyoto Protocol. <a href="https://www.desmog.com/clexit/#s4" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: none;">[4]</a><h3 id="h-clexit-founding-statement" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; line-height: 1.2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Clexit Founding Statement</h3></div>