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</div></div><div class="article-pagesidebars-and-richtext" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 82rem; margin: 0px auto; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; flex-wrap: nowrap; width: 1230px; grid-area: 1 / 1 / 2 / 13;"><div class="article-pagemiddle-column" style="box-sizing: inherit; width: 595px;"><div class="article-pagerich-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; width: 595px; padding: 0px;"><div class="rich-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-y: auto; overflow-wrap: anywhere;">An influential Tory-linked lobby group leading the backlash against the UK government’s net-zero policy has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from an oil-rich foundation with huge investments in energy firms, openDemocracy can reveal.The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), which also campaigns as Net Zero Watch, has also received more than half a million dollars through a fund linked to the controversial billionaire Koch brothers.The GWPF has long refused to disclose its donors and <a href="https://www.thegwpf.org/support-the-gwpf/" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">claims</a> it will <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuGaSgRxWYE&t=415s" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">not take money</a> from anyone with an interest in an energy company.But tax documents filed with US authorities and uncovered by this website reveal the network of dark money behind it for the first time – including the $30m shares in 22 companies working in coal, oil and gas that are held by one of its donors.shadow climate secretary Ed Miliband said: “US right-wing groups with links to big oil are desperate to stop action against the climate crisis. Now they are trying to extend their reach into UK political debate."A registered UK charity, the GWPF is one of the most vocal groups in British politics opposing the government’s ‘net zero’ plans and has been at the forefront of recent calls to restart fracking.The Tufton Street-based group’s trustees include former chancellor Nigel Lawson and Steve Baker, who leads the ‘Net Zero Scrutiny’ group of backbench Tory MPs and was recently criticised for sharing a paper by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/08/its-all-a-bit-cynical-the-politicians-behind-the-tory-attack-on-net-zero-agenda" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">the group that denied the climate crisis</a>.Over four years the GWPF’s US arm, the American Friends of the GWPF, received more than $1.3m from US donors. At least $864,884 of this has been channelled to the UK group, with some being held back for expenses.Of the £1.45m that the GWPF has received in charitable donations since 2017, at least 45% has come from the US. </div></div><div class="article-pagehighlight" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px -230px; width: 1025px;"><blockquote class="blockquotepull-quote-quotation" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 3rem; text-align: center; padding-top: 2rem;"><div class="blockquotecontainer" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="rich-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-y: auto;">American ideological groups are trying to interfere in British democracy</div></div></blockquote></div><div class="article-pagerich-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; width: 595px; padding: 0px;"><div class="rich-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-y: auto; overflow-wrap: anywhere;">The Global Warming Policy Foundation’s US ‘friends’ group did not have to declare the sources of this so-called ‘dark money’ – but openDemocracy has discovered through the filings of other groups that:<ul style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px 1.33333rem; line-height: 1.86667rem; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-bottom: 4px;">Between 2016 and 2020 the American Friends of the GWPF received $620,259 from the Donors Trust. Described as a “dark money ATM” for the US political Right, the secretive trust has given hundreds of millions of dollars to more than 100 groups working to cast doubt on the scientific consensus behind climate change. </li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-bottom: 4px;">The Donors Trust has received millions from the Koch brothers, who inherited their father’s oil empire and <a href="https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/fighting-climate-chaos/climate-deniers/koch-industries/" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">spent hundreds of millions of dollars funding the climate denial movement before David Koch’s death in 2019.</a> More recently, it <a href="https://publicintegrity.org/politics/pro-trump-nonprofit-gives-millions-to-groups-boosting-his-agenda/" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">received nearly $4.8m from America First Works</a>, a non-profit closely tied to Donald Trump that contributed millions to his failed 2020 reelection bid as well as to campaigns to restrict mail voting. The GWPF told openDemocracy that the Donors Trust was simply a “middleman, matching donors to those seeking funding” and that it was “able to vet [donors with which it was matched] in line with our funding policy”. </li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-bottom: 4px;">The GWPF also received $210,525 in 2018 and 2020 from the Sarah Scaife Foundation – set up by the billionaire libertarian heir to an oil and banking dynasty. The US-based foundation has $30m worth of shares in 22 energy companies including $9m in Exxon and $5.7m in Chevron, according to its financial filings. It has bankrolled numerous conservative causes, including the right-wing Daily Caller news site and the Heritage Foundation think tank.</li></ul>“It is disturbing that the Global Warming Policy Foundation is acting as a channel through which American ideological groups are trying to interfere in British democracy,” said Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the LSE Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.Founded by Lawson and university lecturer Benny Peiser in 2009, the GWPF has long been accused of promoting climate denialism.Last week, Peiser <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RPhWTve618" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">made</a> the <a href="https://www.desmog.com/2022/03/25/media-repeats-kremlin-anti-fracking-claims-while-ignoring-russias-promotion-of-climate-denial/" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">unfounded claim</a> that Putin has “colluded with the green movement in Europe and all over the world”. The GWPF – which <a href="https://www.desmog.com/2021/10/11/climate-science-denial-group-rebrands-as-net-zero-watch/" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">Greenpeace UK said</a> has “spent the last twenty years campaigning to preserve our addiction to fossil fuels” – has become increasingly prominent in recent years.The group was forced to set up a new non-charitable organisation for its political lobbying in 2014 after the Charity Commission found its stance on climate change breached charity rules.Labour MP Graham Stringer sits on its board of trustees, while <a href="https://www.desmog.com/2022/02/16/revealed-how-the-aides-of-anti-net-zero-mp-craig-mackinlay-are-linked-to-a-leading-climate-denial-group/" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">two of Global Warming Policy Foundation’s staff recently became advisers</a> to Tory MP Craig Mackinlay. Another trustee, Terence Mourdant, is a long-standing Tory donor who <a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/revealed-climate-change-denier-makes-big-donation-boris-johnson-and-jeremy-hunt/" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">gave £25,000 to Boris Johnson’s leadership campaign</a>. Steve Baker, who <a href="https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/news/mp-joins-climate-change-deniers-project-fear-on-net-zero/" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">joined the GWPF</a> last year and has called on Boris Johnson to resign over partygate, is a long time admirer of US libertarians. He has previously received expenses-paid trips to <a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/new-brexit-minister-arms-industry-american-hard-right-and-e/" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">conferences</a> organised by US conservative groups that have been accused of opposing environmental action.<h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-position: auto; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 3rem 0px 1rem; break-after: avoid;">‘Net Zero Watch’</h2>In October last year, the UK government announced its strategy for reducing carbon emissions to net zero by 2050. The same month, the GWPF’s campaigning arm – the similarly-named Global Warming Policy Forum – rebranded itself as Net Zero Watch, a name it continues to use alongside the original moniker.In a statement announcing the change, <a href="https://www.netzerowatch.com/welcome-to-net-zero-watch/" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">Peiser claimed</a> that in a “net zero future you will be poorer and colder” and “that a political backlash is long overdue” in response to the policy.Net Zero Watch has repeatedly claimed that the cost of living crisis is the result of net-zero policies. In <a href="https://www.netzerowatch.com/content/uploads/2022/03/Taking-Back-Control-Energy-Plan-.pdf?mc_cid=4882a25179&mc_eid=UNIQID" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">a report published in March</a>, it said that renewable energy is responsible for the crisis and called for the government to reintroduce coal power plants and restart fracking.Climate policy researchers said that the group is <a href="https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/news/misinformation-and-propaganda-campaign-on-net-zero/" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">spreading “misinformation and propaganda”</a> about net zero rather than providing analysis. Net Zero Watch has found allies in Parliament among a group of 20 Tory MPs and Peers, who formed the Net Zero Scrutiny Group,  a cadre of backbench Conservative MPs modelled on the European Research Group that has emerged as a staunch critic of Boris Johnson’s net-zero plans.Net Zero Scrutiny Group members include former work and pensions secretary Esther McVey; Robert Halfon, a former schools minister; and Tory peer Peter Lilley, who is a former trustee of the GWPF. Craig Mackinlay and Steve Baker, the MPs leading the group, are regularly quoted on press releases from Net Zero Watch and have repeated some of its lines on the economic cost of net zero <a href="https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/net-zero-targets-mean-people-will-be-poorer-colder-and-eating-insects-warn-tory-mps-1232488" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">word-for-word</a>.In February, Harry Wilkinson, currently head of policy at Net Zero Watch, and Ruth Lea, a former GWPF trustee, began working for Mackinlay as parliamentary advisers. Wilkinson has <a href="https://twitter.com/HarryWilkinsonn/status/1396075775468740610" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">previously tweeted</a> that “The ‘climate crisis’ is a religious belief, nothing to do with science.”</div></div><div class="article-pagerich-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; width: 595px; padding: 0px;"><div class="rich-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-y: auto; overflow-wrap: anywhere;">The GWPF shares its Tufton Street address with a number of anonymously funded think tanks who have become increasingly vocal in their <a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/the-brexit-dark-money-lobby-has-a-new-target-climate-change-action/" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">opposition to climate change mitigation</a> policies. Earlier this year, Nigel Farage announced he was forming a new campaign for a referendum on net zero.Farage’s financial backers include the private equity billionaire Jeremy Hosking who <a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/jeremy-hosking-brexit-donor-net-zero-invest-fossil-fuels/" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">openDemocracy recently revealed</a> has huge financial interests in fossil fuels. The GWPF disputed that the Sarah Scaife Foundation has an interest in oil companies, telling openDemocracy: “The wealth that ultimately created the Scaife Foundation was created at the end of the nineteenth century and the start of the twentieth. It would be ludicrous to suggest that three generations on, it represents an oil company interest.”Steve Baker MP said: "I understand the GWPF has already given a response to these allegations, which appear to be ridiculous.It is an extraordinary fact that the same newspapers and commentators who would usually be the first to protest any kind of poverty are wasting the public's time with these attempts to distract from the real issues at hand. It would be better if the political world focused their attention on how our current energy strategy has driven up energy prices and contributed to the terrible cost-of-living crisis that so many are experiencing.”</div></div></div></div><div>=</div></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Hounding of Roger Pielke Jr </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><a href="https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2021/11/Laframboise-Pielke.pdf?mc_cid=5f514b9f6e&mc_eid=8346460a5c" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2021/11/Laframboise-Pielke.pdf?mc_cid=5f514b9f6e&mc_eid=8346460a5c</a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Executive summary </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>Climate change, we're told, threatens the ‘viability of our societies‘. In August 2021, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres declared the alarm bells ‘deafening‘. If this is even remotely the case, humanity is in urgent need of clear thinking. But the climate movement rejects clear thinking. It has little interest in sorting facts from fiction, in ensuring its efforts are based on evidence rather than dogma. The hostility and venom directed at Roger Pielke Jr, a natural disasters expert who wholeheartedly supports decarbonisation of the global economy, demonstrates this beyond doubt. Stray but a little from the dominant climate narrative, and activists will fantasise about your violent death. They will dismiss your peer-reviewed publications as marginal, accuse you of spreading disinformation, and successfully campaign to get you fired from part-time jobs. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">They will publish false allegations about you on the White House website, target journalists who quote you in news stories, and subject you to punitive, intrusive, and extensive financial investigation. In recent years, Roger Pielke Jr has further discovered that academic freedom is an empty slogan at the University of Colorado (Boulder), his primary employer. Rather than defending its most senior environmental studies professor, his own department is now determinedly harassing and humiliating him. 1 </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Four days after Christmas 2009, an alternative newspaper in northern New York state published an article purporting to identify the ‘15 Most Heinous Climate Criminals…bastards responsible for subverting public understanding of climate change’.1 Eschewing goodwill toward men, author and climate activist Michael Roddy2 declared these individuals liars corrupted by corporate interests. Their climate stance would, he said, result in human casualties dwarfing those inflicted by history’s worst mass murderers.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> In addition to defaming these people, the article assigned them lurid punishments.3 Roger Pielke Jr, then a mild-mannered 41-year-old environmental studies professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, received a death sentence. The article describes him wandering in the wilderness, lost and starving, before ‘hyenas laugh and rip him to shreds’. Readers were told Pielke routinely expresses the kinds of concerns that dominate climate sceptic blogs. But that has never been the case. His 2010 book, The Climate Fix, says he grew up as ‘the son of a world-famous atmospheric scientist’, Roger Pielke Sr. Having gained a ‘pretty in-depth understanding of the atmospheric sciences’ around the dinner table, he says he has ‘never questioned the climatic importance of human emissions of carbon dioxide’, and fully supports a dramatic ‘decarbonization of the global economy’.4</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The Climate Fix calls for a modest carbon tax to fund the development of innovative energy technologies. Moreover, Pielke leans left politically. In 2018, he told an audience he has never once voted for a Republican presidential candidate.5 Yet he has endured more than a decade of harassment and persecution from US Democratic Party operatives, green campaigners, journalists, and academic colleagues. His crime? Championing clear thinking and honest scholarship. While acquiring an undergraduate degree in mathematics in the late 1980s, Pielke landed a part-time job with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), then home to prominent climate scientists such as Steven Schneider and Kevin Trenberth. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">At that moment in history, international concern about global warming was gathering steam, and atmospheric scientists were gaining political influence. Pielke had intended to return to the physical sciences after completing a Masters in Public Policy. But during a stint as an intern with the Science Committee of the US House of Representatives, he realised how profoundly politicians and scientists misunderstand each other’s roles and constraints. Fascinated by the intersection of these disparate worlds, and hoping to improve dialogue between them, by 1994 he’d earned a PhD in science policy. The next dozen years were hectic. Pielke worked with NCAR, Columbia University, Arizona State, and the University of Illinois. He was awarded Germany’s Eduard Brückner Outstanding...</div>=</div><div>=</div><div>
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</div><div>Climate Science Deniers Use Coronavirus to Downplay Environmental Threats</div><div>
</div><div>By Zak Derler • Wednesday, April 1, 2020 - 06:01</div><div>
</div><div>Commentators known to spread disinformation on climate change are using the COVID-19 pandemic to downplay the threat of environmental crises and undermine action, DeSmog analysis has found.</div><div>
</div><div>The World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared that the COVID-19 outbreak was a pandemic on 11 March 2020. The virus has affected hundreds of countries and territories worldwide, and has so far led to tens of thousands of deaths.</div><div>
</div><div>Its arrival in the UK spawned thousands of words of commentary, with many writers who have previously used their platforms to undermine mainstream climate science or attack climate action turning their attention to the pandemic. Their attacks normally take one of three forms.</div><div>
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</div><div>“The Dystopia Greens Want Us to Live In…”</div><div>
</div><div>Environmentalists have been quick to point out that the drop in carbon emissions and air pollution due to the COVID-19 outbreak is unlikely to have a long-term impact, and that policies they have long promoted do not require any great loss of liberty or need to sacrifice quality of life. But libertarian voices and free-market advocates nonetheless claim the government-implemented lockdown measures represent an outcome that environmental activists have been fighting for all along. </div><div>
</div><div>Brendan O’Neill, editor of Koch-funded website Spiked, argued that “this pandemic has shown us what life would be like if environmentalists got their way”. In a column titled “COVID-19: a glimpse of the dystopia greens want us to live in,” O’Neill claimed government responses to the virus represent a “warped dystopia” that environmentalists like George Monbiot have been calling for.</div><div>
</div><div>O’Neill regularly speaks out against what he describes as “climate change alarmism” and is highly critical of Extinction Rebellion, Greta Thunberg and other environmental activists, which he says are the “enemies of liberty”. Political blog Guido Fawkes also used the crisis to regularly attack Extinction Rebellion, claiming that the group had “hijacked” COVID-19 for its own ends.</div><div>
</div><div>Previously, O’Neill referred to the COVID-19 outbreak as a “fashionable apocalypse” similar to those supposedly constructed by environmentalists and those wanting the UK to stay in the EU. </div><div>
</div><div>Motor show host Jeremy Clarkson made a similar argument in The Times, describing the COVID-19 pandemic as a scenario “our eco friends have been dreaming about.” For “hardcore environmentalists”, he argued, the coronavirus lockdown is “their idea of a wet dream. Fewer people, no travel, no pollution and, as a smear of icing on the cake, no commerce.”</div><div>
</div><div>Clarkson has questioned the validity of anthropogenic climate change for years, though he recently appeared to soften his stance. </div><div>
</div><div>Former UKIP and Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage meanwhile accused environmentalists of failing to stand up to repressive regimes in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, claiming “the Green lobby is happy to inflict chaos on our society any time it chooses”. Specifically, he said environmentalists were not doing enough to challenge China, which he blames for the global pandemic. Farage has previously said he “hasn't got a clue” whether carbon dioxide drives climate change.</div><div>
</div><div>‘Compared to COVID-19, Climate Change is a Non-Problem…’</div><div>
</div><div>Other commentators have used the COVID-19 pandemic to downplay the threat of climate change.</div><div>
</div><div>The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group, has regularly shared material promoting this argument over the past two weeks.</div><div>
</div><div>The group recently reposted an article written by Jeff Jacoby that said the “horrors of pandemics have been documented and depicted often. Yet while climate activists have been forecasting world-ending doomsday scenarios since the 1960s, the apocalypse never seems to materialize.” Jacoby, who has previously claimed global warming “brings positives”, was at pains to point out that, in contrast to climate change, “plagues are real”.</div><div>
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</div><div>Jeff Jacoby: I’m Skeptical About Climate Alarmism, But I Take Coronavirus Fears Seriously  https://www.thegwpf.com/jeff-jacoby-im-skeptical-about-climate-alarmism-but-i-take-coronavirus-fears-seriously/ …</div><div>
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</div><div>Jeff Jacoby: I’m Skeptical About Climate Alarmism, But I Take Coronavirus Fears Seriously - The...</div><div>A friend asked me the other day if I didn’t think the agitated media coverage of Covid-19, the coronavirus disease, was getting out of control. She knows that I have long been skeptical of the shrill...</div><div>
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</div><div>The GWPF also shared an article by Lorrie Goldstein, originally published in the Toronto Sun, who argued that the world had “gambled on the wrong threat – climate change.” Goldstein argued that COVID-19 “shows us what the world will be like if we abandon fossil fuels prematurely,” claiming that without high-carbon fuels, “hospitals could not maintain sterile conditions”.</div><div>
</div><div>Dutch climate science denial group CLINTEL echoed the sentiment that climate change was not a real threat in an open letter titled “fight virus not carbon”.</div><div>
</div><div>The group demanded that the EU’s Green New Deal be abandoned because “compared to COVID-19 climate change is a non-problem.” The letter was signed by high-profile climate science deniers including Viv Forbes, Fritz Vahrenholt, and Richard Lindzen.</div><div>
</div><div>Likewise, Rupert Darwall, a policy consultant and GWPF report writer, contrasted the threat of climate change and COVID-19 in an article for The Hill saying the pandemic “shows what a genuine crisis looks like”.</div><div>
</div><div>Read about US COVID-19 misinformation — Meet the Climate Science Deniers Who Downplayed COVID-19 Risks</div><div>
</div><div>Sherelle Jacobs, writing in the Telegraph, for which Darwall has also regularly written, argued that “we need to redirect university financing away from climate change predictive modelling, into the scientifically uncontested problem of pandemics.” Jacobs has regularly used her platform to cast doubt on the veracity of mainstream climate science. </div><div>
</div><div>Tom Welsh, the Telegraph’s comment editor, also claimed that coronavirus has made environmental projects look “extraordinarily decadent”. In the same vein, controversial media personality Katie Hopkins expressed her delight that in the face of the pandemic, “climate weirdos have shut up”.</div><div>
</div><div>“This Coronavirus Pandemic Could Be a Big Hoax…”</div><div>There are some climate science deniers that consider COVID-19 to be a conspiracy or that disregard it as a threat; though these are fewer in the UK than the US.</div><div>
</div><div>Piers Corbyn, a self-styled ‘weatherman’ whose work Boris Johnson has previously promoted, recently claimed the pandemic is a “world population cull” created by “mega-rich control freaks” Bill Gates and George Soros to deal with carbon dioxide emissions.</div><div>
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</div><div>Piers Corbyn</div><div>@Piers_Corbyn</div><div>
</div><div>THE CV PANDEMIC WAS SIMULATED OCT 2019 BY MEGA-RICH CONTROL FREAKS BILL GATES, GEORGE SOROS +CRONIES.</div><div>NOW IT'S FOR REAL.</div><div>THE AIM IS A WORLD POPULATION CULL ("PEOPLE cause #CO2 problem") by THEIR mass VACCINATION PLAN CONTAINING POISON.</div><div>
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</div><div>Corbyn, who has previously said that “globalist elites” are using climate science as a cover to deindustrialise the West, also falsely claimed that Soros owns a company in Wuhan, and urged his Twitter followers to “refuse the vaccine”.</div><div>
</div><div>Godfrey Bloom, former UKIP MEP, echoed these sentiments when he tweeted about “the coronavirus hoax”, linking to an article that questioned whether the pandemic could be a “big hoax” by those “who seek to profit – financially or politically – from the ensuing panic.” Former UKIP researcher Ben Pile also took to Twitter to suggest people were “being played” by the media coverage of both the risks of COVID-19 and climate change.</div><div>
</div><div>Some climate science deniers have even claimed they have found a cure for COVID-19. Breitbart columnist James Delingpole has shared his interest in hearing from funders after claiming he fought through a COVID-19 infection with “a high powered zinc formula” ; a theory a University of Reading professor in cellular microbiology has called “absolute garbage.” Alt-right talk show radio host Alex Jones also allegedly marketed ineffective treatments and cures for COVID-19 on his show – a charge he denies.</div></div><div></div>=<div>bit lost see clintel
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</div><div><a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/2019/09/06/climate-science-deniers-planning-coordinated-european-misinformation-campaign-leaked-documents-reveal">https://www.desmog.co.uk/2019/09/06/climate-science-deniers-planning-coordinated-european-misinformation-campaign-leaked-documents-reveal</a></div><div>
</div><div>A coalition of climate science denial groups is gearing up for a European media blitz later this month, in an apparent bid to derail efforts to set an EU-wide “net zero” emissions target, documents obtained by DeSmog show.Plans for a self-styled “European Declaration” include press conferences in Brussels, Rome and Oslo and a letter to be sent to leaders of EU and UN institutions, scheduled for mid-September. The letter claims to have “400 independent Climate Scientists and Professionals” signed up so far.Some notable signatories are part of a <a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/2019/06/07/brexit-climate-denier-map" style="text-decoration-line: none;">trans-Atlantic network of thinktanks</a> pushing for environmental deregulation post-Brexit, and have a history of climate science denial. A number of former employees of the network’s member organisations are now staffers in Boris Johnson’s cabinet  Brulle, Professor of Sociology at Drexel University and an expert on climate science denial, told DeSmog the campaign looked like a panicked response to recent high-profile efforts to highlight the climate crisis:<font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(">“The rise of the Extinction Rebellion movement, and the immense popularity and influence of Greta Thunberg, are having a significant impact on media coverage of climate change and concern about this issue. I would suspect that the aim of the campaign is to blunt the impact of these climate advocacy efforts.”<font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(">“The talking points are stale and patently scientific nonsense. That isn't critical. The point would be to keep the ‘contested’ nature of climate change alive.”<font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(">Geoffrey Supran, a Research Associate at Harvard University who <font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(">gave evidence to the European Parliament in March on oil giant ExxonMobil’s historic promotion of climate science denial, said he thought the move was an attempt to distract from the various upcoming efforts to increase action on climate change globally, such as the UN Climate Action Summit at the end of the month:“These people are the rhetorical equivalent to the kid in the classroom screaming ‘Look at me! Look at me!’ They're desperate for attention.” “As always, they presumably hope to muddy the waters of public and political discourse on the climate crisis. To feed the echo chamber of sympathetic right-wing media and blogs, and to prey on naive and unsuspecting journalists who may be tempted to exercise false balance in their climate coverage.”<h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">Coordinated effort</h3>The campaign is being spearheaded by a new Netherlands-based climate science denial group called the Climate Intelligence Foundation (CLINTEL), launched in April with funding from Niek Sandmann, a multimillionaire real estate developer.The group’s co-founder Guus Berkhout, an engineering professor who <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190904134324/http:/www.cfgsec.com/Bio%20Professor%20Guus%20Berkhout/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">began</a> his career at Shell and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190906120430/https://www.delphi-consortium.com/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">set up</a> the Delphi Consortium in the 1980s to develop new exploration methods for the oil and gas industry, told DeSmog that interest in the campaign had been “overwhelming”. Berkhout said there were plans to hold press conferences in European capitals and that the effort was being “expanded to a World Climate Declaration”. He declined to offer further details or comment.In addition to CLINTEL, the international organising group includes some well-known figures from the climate misinformation world, including: <ul style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li>Professor <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/richard-lindzen" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Richard Lindzen</a>, former Distinguished Senior Fellow at the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cato-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Cato Institute</a> (USA)</li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/viv-forbes" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Viv Forbes</a>, Chairman of the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/carbon-sense-coalition" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Carbon Sense Coalition</a> (Australia)</li><li>Professor <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fritz-vahrenholt" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Fritz Vahrenholt</a>, Speaker at the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/european-institute-climate-and-energy" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">European Institute for Climate and Energy</a> (Germany)</li><li>Professor Jeffrey Foss, Contributor to the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/frontier-centre-public-policy" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Frontier Centre for Public Policy</a> (Canada)</li><li>Jim O’Brien, Chair and Co-founder of the <a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/irish-climate-science-forum" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Irish Climate Science Forum</a> (Ireland)</li><li>Terence Dunleavy, Founding Chairman of the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/international-climate-science-coalition" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">International Climate Science Coalition</a> (New Zealand)</li></ul>In an email seen by DeSmog, Berkhout explains that “signatures are being collected from persons who give a valuable contribution to the climate debate and are recognised as such”. He goes on to boast that there are “already a lot of great names on the list”.Of the 400 signatories, only a handful have a background in climate science, with the majority being writers, engineers and geologists with no direct expertise in the field.In addition to the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cato-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Cato Institute</a>'s <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/richard-lindzen" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Richard Lindzen</a>,<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cato-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> </a>the list features numerous figures from US-based libertarian groups, including <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/patrick-michaels" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Patrick Michaels</a> of the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/competitive-enterprise-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a>, and <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/charles-battig" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Charles Battig</a> and <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/willie-soon" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Willie Soon</a> from the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Heartland Institute</a>, which provides a total of 12 signatures alone. All three organisations are members of the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlas-economic-research-foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Atlas Network</a>, a <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/koch-family-foundations" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Koch-funded</a> international umbrella body of free-market groups.UK affiliates of the network include the <a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/institute-economic-affairs" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA)</a>, the <a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/adam-smith-institute" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Adam Smith Institute (ASI)</a> and the <a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/taxpayers-alliance" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Taxpayers’ Alliance</a>. A number of former employees of these groups are now working in <a href="https://desmog.co.uk/boris-johnson" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Boris Johnson</a>’s government.Taxpayers’ Alliance founder <a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/matthew-elliott" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Matthew Elliott</a> is reportedly advising new Chancellor Sajid Javid, whose Conservative leadership campaign he ran, while former employee Chloe Westley has joined Boris Johnson’s Number 10 team. International Trade Secretary <a href="https://desmog.co.uk/liz-truss" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Liz Truss</a> has appointed two special advisors from the IEA and ASI.<h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">UK support</h3>The UK’s principal climate science denial group, the <a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/global-warming-policy-foundation" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Global Warming Policy Foundation</a><a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/global-warming-policy-foundation" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> (GWPF)</a>, founded by former Chancellor <a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/nigel-lawson" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Nigel Lawson</a> in the run-up to the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit, is also well-represented in the campaign.At least four members of its Academic Advisory Council feature in the letter’s signatories, and other contributors to the GWPF have also backed the “declaration”. One is Northumbria University Professor Valentina Zharkova, who gave a lecture to the group last year claiming that climate change is caused by natural solar cycles. A paper Zharkova co-authored in June on the same subject was <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2209895-journal-criticised-for-study-claiming-sun-is-causing-global-warming/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">criticised</a> for containing “basic errors” and an investigation into how it came to be published was launched by the scientific journal that printed it.CLINTEL also has close ties to the GWPF. Berkhout wrote an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190904131131/https:/www.thegwpf.org/climate-thinking-broadening-the-horizons/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">essay</a> for the UK group last year insisting that climate change was purely a natural phenomenon. And in February, the GWPF <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190903163551/https:/www.thegwpf.com/dutch-climate-intelligence-foundation-challenges-belgian-climate-alarmists/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">published</a> an article by its Dutch counterpart that said: “Yes, the Earth is warming up. But that is business as usual. Earth’s history tells us that climate change has always happened.” The following month GWPF director <a href="https://desmog.co.uk/benny-peiser" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Benny Peiser</a> spoke at a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190903162359/https:/www.thegwpf.com/benny-peiser-energy-revolts-the-crisis-of-europes-green-energy-agenda/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">gathering in Amsterdam</a> where CLINTEL announced its upcoming launch. At that event, Berkhout <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLrbo5LYgHQ" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">admitted</a>: “in this whole audience, apart from the organisation and a few brave ones, I don't see young people. So the first thing we are going to do is talk with the young people.” CLINTEL currently has a youth wing called “<a href="https://clintel.nl/young-clintel/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Young Clintel</a>”. The GWPF did not respond to a request for comment.Other UK signatories include directors and former directors of lesser-known oil and gas companies, as well as five Fellows of the Geological Society, a professional body representing Earth scientists.In addition to the EU “net zero” emissions target under consideration, planned “climate strike” protests and the upcoming UN Climate Action Summit, the media offensive may also, given its European focus, be timed to coincide with a <a href="https://www.euractiv.com/section/climate-environment/news/merkel-speaks-out-in-favour-of-more-ambitious-eu-climate-targets/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">crunch government meeting in Germany</a> on how the country will meet its 2030 emissions target, set to take place on 20 September.German signatories to the letter include a spokesperson for the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/european-institute-climate-and-energy" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">European Institute for Climate and Energy</a> (EIKE), which a Der Spiegel <a href="https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/afd-seeks-votes-by-opposing-climate-protection-a-1265494.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">investigation</a> earlier this year found had been working closely with the insurgent, far-right <a href="https://desmog.co.uk/2019/05/16/right-wing-populist-parties-climate-science-denial-european-parliament-elections" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Alternative for Germany</a> party to campaign against action on climate change.=</div></div>desmog<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://desmogblog.cmail20.com/t/t-l-byksit-jdldtjdit-n/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">05 July 2019</a><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" align="right" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody><tr style="border-collapse: collapse;"><td class="yiv7394590987w30" width="15" style="border-collapse: collapse;" /><td style="border-collapse: collapse;" /></tr><tr style="border-collapse: collapse;"><td class="yiv7394590987w30" width="15" height="5" style="border-collapse: collapse;" /><td style="border-collapse: collapse;" /></tr></tbody></table><div align="left" class="yiv7394590987article-content" style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px;">Dr Jerome Booth, an economist, investor, and Tory donor, has been appointed as a Director of the UK's principal climate science denial campaign group, the <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://desmogblog.cmail20.com/t/t-l-byksit-jdldtjdit-e/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)</a>.He's also a GWPF donor. We know this because... well, he told us. He said:<div style="text-align: left;">"I decided to become a trustee because I was interested in energy policy and believe greater scrutiny of climate policies is needed.</div><div style="text-align: left;">... </div>Yes, I have donated to the GWPF."Booth is chairman of Anglia Ruskin University's board of governors, and sits on the board of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Britten Symphonia.Ironically, just months after Booth became Anglia Ruskin's chairman <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://desmogblog.cmail20.com/t/t-l-byksit-jdldtjdit-s/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">a mock memorial</a> to climate science deniers, including GWPF founder Nigel Lawson, Christopher Monckton and Owen Paterson and commentators Melanie Phillips, and James Delingpole won the university’s annual Sustainability Art Prize.Booth's appointment to the GWPF board has riled campaigners, who are already calling for his removal from institutions that they say he is using to "enhance his image" while "working with the UK's most vociferous bunch of climate deniers".Booth has featured on the Sunday Times Rich List with an estimated wealth of £112 million. He's also donated £50,000 to the Tory party and MP Andrew Mitchell.<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://desmogblog.cmail20.com/t/t-l-byksit-jdldtjdit-g/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Read the full story by Richard Collett-White here.</a></div>=<a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/2018/10/11/climate-science-deniers-respond-ipcc-report-anger-fear-and-distortion" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.desmog.co.uk/2018/10/11/climate-science-deniers-respond-ipcc-report-anger-fear-and-distortion</a>mike s big UN report arrived on Monday, saying in no uncertain terms that the world has <a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/2018/10/07/ipcc-report-says-1-5c-climate-target-reachable-only-rapid-fossil-fuel-phase-out" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">up to two decades to massively cut emissions</a> by transforming the global economy if we want to avoid terrible climate impacts.Given the implications of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) findings — government intervention, progressive social policies, more international aid — it’s perhaps not surprising that those who deny climate change is real or a problem pushed back. It took a few days, but the climate science deniers’ response to the IPCC report is now in full flow.What we see is three distinct layers of climate science denial at play here:There’s the ‘this isn’t happening’ sun-spot brigade. There’s the ‘this is happening but it’s all a Communist ruse’ zealots. And then there’s the team who reluctantly admit they’ve lost the debate but shoehorn in a number of caveats and excuses to justify why nothing should happen.<h3 dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">‘This isn’t happening’</h3>Over at Steve Bannon's alt-right hate machine <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/10/08/ipcc-summary-for-policy-makers-warns-of-more-climate-doom/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Breibart</a>, <a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/James-Delingpole" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">James Delingpole</a> calls the IPCC report: “wailing hysteria and worryingly eco-fascistic policy prescriptions”.Quoting <a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/benny-peiser" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Benny Peiser</a> of the oft-debunked <a href="http://www.thegwpf.com/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)</a>, he claims that the climate breakdown “hasn’t been supported by real-world evidence”.Delingpole draws on an old friend, author <a href="https://desmog.co.uk/rupert-darwall" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Rupert Darwall</a>, to claim that “science” is really just a pretext, devised by “ideological Euro Greenies, to destroy the fossil fuel hegemony of countries like the U.S. and to impose on them a new, eurocentric, renewable energy global tyranny.”Now in full flow, Delingpole mocks reporting (<a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/2018/10/09/comment-media-responses-ipcc-are-part-problem" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">such as ours</a>) that points to the egregious media coverage in the UK, which favoured Strictly Come Dancing over ecological crisis. He asks, could it be that within the media universe “a few vestiges of the old standards still prevail? That maybe some editors still recognise a complete non-story when they see one?”The BBC's editors decided it was a story, but had a slightly odd approach to covering it.As <a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/2018/10/09/comment-media-responses-ipcc-are-part-problem" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">DeSmog UK pointed out</a>, Newsnight chose to invite on US climate science denier <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/myron-ebell" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Myron Ebell</a>.Ebell is the former head of President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) transition team and a Director of the libertarian US think tank the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/competitive-enterprise-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a> (CEI).His appearance has been heavily slated. Environmental writer Mark Lynas described the interview as “utterly pointless and embarrassing. Car-crash television, and a waste of time that could have been used addressing the real questions.”“If you want political analysis, ask a policy analyst. If you want propaganda, ask Myron Ebell,” said Simon Lewis, professor of global change science at University College London.Not to be denied their place in the sun, LBC radio got in on the action, giving a platform to GWPF-founder <a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/nigel-lawson" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Lord Nigel Lawson</a> to <a href="http://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/iain-dale/lord-lawson-sparks-on-air-row-by-calling-climate/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">spout his stock in trade</a> — that all this talk of climate action is just “PC claptrap”.<hr style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: content-box; height: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-image: initial; margin: 1.5em 0px;" />Not content with giving Nigel Lawson a platform, LBC <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1028681/Piers-Corbyn-climate-change-report-IPCC-United-Nations-UN-news-global-warming" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">doubled up</a> by bringing <a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/piers-corbyn" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Piers Corbyn</a> on to deny not just climate breakdown — “I'll challenge the IPCC and the professor just speaking, there is no scientific paper in existence that shows that increases of carbon dioxide worldwide drive world temperature rises” — but that coral reefs were under threat.The IPCC's report compiled evidence from more than 6,000 papers. It said 70 to 90 percent of coral reefs would be lost with 1.5C of warming, and almost all with 2C of warming.<h3 dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">‘It’s all a ruse’</h3>Over at <a href="https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Conservative Woman</a> — which regularly runs pieces by Conservative non-woman and GWPF researcher <a href="https://desmog.co.uk/harry-wilkinson" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Harry Wilkinson</a> — a headline runs “Top scientist shoots the climate-change alarmists down in flames”. In that article, Wilkinson quotes American climate science denier <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/richard-lindzen" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Richard Lindzen, </a>who the GWPF contrived to give its annual lecture on the day the IPCC report was released.In an extraordinary <a href="http://w.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2018/10/Lindzen-2018-GWPF-Lecture.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">talk</a>, Lindzen equates the climate consensus with “the suicide of industrial society”. His talk is a homage to oil and coal arguing: “the power these people desperately seek includes the power to roll back the status and welfare that the ordinary person has acquired and continues to acquire through the fossil fuel generated industrial revolution and return them to their presumably more appropriate status as serfs.”Lindzen has form. Back in <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/richard-lindzen" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">2017 writing at Merion West</a>, Lindzen argued that believing climate change is largely caused by increases in carbon dioxide is “pretty close to believing in magic.”

In 2015 <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2922553/Global-warming-believers-like-hysterical-cult-MIT-scientist-compares-climate-alarmists-religious-fanatics.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">The Daily Mail reported</a> Lindzen compared people believing in global warming to religious fanatics: “As with any cult, once the mythology of the cult begins falling apart, instead of saying, oh, we were wrong, they get more and more fanatical.”The Spectator would seem to agree. Its beleaguered editor <a href="https://twitter.com/FraserNelson/status/1049988358410256384" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Fraser Nelson tweeted a sneering comment</a> in support of <a href="https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/10/good-news-we-now-have-until-2030-to-save-the-earth/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Ross Clark’s article</a>, in which he states:“It isn’t hard to spot the problem with issuing frightening-sounding deadlines. If the deadlines come and go, without us managing to lower emissions and yet still life goes on, it makes the people setting the deadlines look rather foolish.” “It is also somewhat counter-productive. Given the failure of the world to come to an end, it is tempting to say, just as we do when religious cults and other fantasists make doom-laden predictions which fail to come to pass: well, the whole thing must be a hoax. What is the point of listening any further?”Clark has a long history of climate denial. Back in 2015 he wrote in the <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/623325/Climate-change-economy-Express-Comment-Jeremy-Corbyn-Ross-Clark" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Express</a> the sort of paean to fossil fuel capitalism that Richard Lindzen would have been proud of:“Climate change is not the greatest risk to the world: the biggest danger we face is the economic decline which would result from the loss of the cheap energy which has improved lives beyond all recognition over the past two centuries.”“You name it: better food, better transport, better medical care. Ultimately, all the fantastic improvements in our lives since 1800 have been down to one thing: our ability to harness energy from fossil fuels.”In summary: Everything’s getting better forever and ever. Except the IPCC report tells us that's very much not the case, unless we take radical action.Which is perhaps why, in a second Breitbart article, Delingpole <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/10/10/delingpole-meet-green-wonk-who-ready-ruin-britain/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">took aim</a> at the organisations charged with implementing this ‘green tyranny’ that would see a move away from fossil fuels — specifically the Committee on Climate Change's (CCC) Chief Executive, Chris Stark.He’s a man full of “revolutionary fervour” for cutting the UK’s emissions and helping the world avoid terrible climate impacts, Delingpole (sort of) writes. “If this doesn’t chill you to the marrow, it should”, apparently.He’s not the only one that’s scared the CCC might now become empowered. Nick Timothy, a former SPAD for Theresa May who is credited with getting the UK’s Department of Climate Change shut down, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/10/11/take-back-control-unelected-rulers/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">urges Telegraph readers</a> to “take back control” from “unaccountable entities” such as the CCC.And entities such as the Nobel committee, perhaps.Bjorn Lomborg over at the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-n-ignores-economics-of-climate-1539125496" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Wall St Journal</a> took the opportunity to distort the work of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2018/oct/08/nobel-prize-2018-sveriges-riksbank-in-economic-sciences-awarded-live-updates?page=with:block-5bbb500de4b01b0f3aba380f" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">just-announced Nobel Prize winner</a>, climate economist, William Nordhaus. Lomborg claims Nordhaus said that “proposed cost of CO2 cuts aren't worth it”.But as Carbon Brief’s Simon Evans <a href="https://twitter.com/DrSimEvans/status/1050036938579808256" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">points out on Twitter</a>, Nordhaus literally wrote in one of his many, many papers on the economic rationale for climate action:“The future is uncertain so we should have more climate policy, not less.”As Evans points out, the entire framing used by Lomborg is just wrong:  [twits]In one sense the new ideological discomfort of the shrinking climate denial network is understandable. As the IPCC reports outlines, mass systemic change is required -  a systemic change that is incompatible with the economic system the climate science deniers revere.<h3 dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">‘It’s happening, but…’</h3>The Daily Mail - a bastion of climate science denial under former editor Paul Dacre - started uncharacteristically promisingly with <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6249587/PETER-OBORNE-sees-effects-changing-temperatures-Bangladesh.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Peter Oborne’s excellent report from Bangladesh,</a> which seems to be based on actual facts and actual reporting and firmly grounded in reality.But then on Wednesday they had <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-6263143/STEPHEN-GLOVER-False-warnings-climate-change-make-sceptical.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Stephen Glover</a> veer from acknowledging the level of crisis, to arguing that it’s all just too expensive so nothing should be done. He writes:“This week’s IPCC report judged that global warming must be kept to a maximum of 1.5C warmer than pre-industrial levels, rather than the 2C ceiling previously envisaged. How can scientists be so sure that the lower figure should become the new goal?“I ask because it carries enormous extra costs. The IPCC estimates that new energy infrastructure — wind, solar and electricity storage — as well as technologies that can capture CO2 from the atmosphere, could cost a jaw dropping £1,800 billion.”“This will be paid for by the likes of you and me.”  He’s not the only one that acknowledges climate change is a problem but isn’t really willing to countenance the solutions.<a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7466400/gutless-knight-sir-craig-mackey/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Rod Liddle in The Sun</a> takes aim first at vegetarians, then at windfarms.Of the IPCC’s suggestion that we’re going to have to eat a lot less meat, he says: “Climate change is a fact. But when they conflate two issues for reasons of fashion, I begin to smell a rat”.So Rod isn’t going veggie. But what of another IPCC finding, that the world is going to need a heck of a lot more windfarms? No. He doesn’t fancy that either:“Wind turbines are a blight on our landscape”, he says, “causing misery wherever they are”.That's all pretty normal messaging for newspapers known for objecting to climate policy. But what’s new about the latest spate of climate science denial is its politics.Having overwhelmingly lost the scientific debate, these groups are now pivoting to a new position which is centred around two ideas: first that the new is too apocalyptic and second that it’s too expensive.Given what is required is systemic change, they are swiftly changing positions to defend the indefensible — an economic system based on extraction and exploitation of natural resources and mass consumerism that the IPCC tells us must be in its end-phase.<h3 dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">But it’s not all bad…</h3>Amongst the torrent of climate science denial from the usual suspects, there are also a few shoots of refreshing reality appearing.  For instance, the normally obstinate Times runs an <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cool-down-kk3pgwrs7" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">editorial</a> that breaks with their own columnist <a href="https://desmog.co.uk/matt-ridley" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Matt Ridley’s</a> vehement do-nothingery and points to the IPCC report to make his stance look absurd:<twitterwidget class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" id="twitter-widget-2" data-tweet-id="1050036993441325057" style="position: static; visibility: visible; display: block; transform: rotate(0deg); max-width: 100%; width: 500px; min-width: 220px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" />“The IPCC report’s authors warn that cutting emissions fast enough to keep the planet sufficiently cool could mean a $2.5 trillion hit to global GDP. Others estimate that switching to electric cars will create new industries worth $7 trillion a year in the US alone. It is true that a revolution will be necessary, but it should be bloodless and it will be good for us. So bring it on.”
yay, we revealed that a major charitable donor <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://desmogblog.cmail20.com/t/t-l-uuuyikd-jdldtjdit-s/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">pulled a big chunk of funding</a> from the UK's premier climate science denial campaign group, the <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://desmogblog.cmail20.com/t/t-l-uuuyikd-jdldtjdit-g/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)</a>. According to latest filings with the Charity  Commission, the Atkin Charitable Trust did not give the GWPF its annual £20,000 donation for the first time since 2012. DeSmog UK was also the <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://desmogblog.cmail20.com/t/t-l-uuuyikd-jdldtjdit-w/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">first to reveal</a> major Tory donor Edward Atkin was a climate science denial funder.=<a href="https://www.desmog.uk/2018/03/29/mapped-cambridge-analytica-s-ties-fossil-fuel-industry">https://www.desmog.uk/2018/03/29/mapped-cambridge-analytica-s-ties-fossil-fuel-industry</a><div></div><div><a href="https://www.desmog.uk/2018/03/28/it-s-very-male-dominated-space-welcome-sexist-world-brexit-and-climate-science-denial">https://www.desmog.uk/2018/03/28/it-s-very-male-dominated-space-welcome-sexist-world-brexit-and-climate-science-denial</a></div><div>
</div><div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="min-height: 280px; font-family: " open="open" sans="sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Do Brexiters and climate science deniers have a problem with women?DeSmog UK has <a href="https://www.desmog.uk/2017/01/16/mapped-new-special-relationship-america-and-britain-emerges-between-climate-science-deniers-trump-and-brexit" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">previously drawn links</a> between climate science denial outfits based out of offices at 55 Tufton St, just around the corner from parliament. And research has shown that the <a href="https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/climate-change-and-social-justice-evidence-review" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">impacts of climate change</a> and <a href="https://phys.org/news/2018-01-brexit-greatest-threats-women-rights.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Brexit will</a> both affect the UK’s women disproportionately.Yet, there is only a small percentage of women in leadership roles at organisations pushing for Brexit and to dampen the UK’s climate commitments, a DeSmog UK investigation reveals — and women who do speak out against these agendas are often subjected to horrific sexist abuse.<h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">Male-Dominated</h3>The new analysis shows that only <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wfQQzgLyuMHiDE9DRlT09-q4eJm4OamHQxZ7dILXH9k/edit?usp=sharing" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">around 16 percent</a> of leadership roles at Westminster-based, pro-Brexit, and Eurosceptic organisations are occupied by women.In the analysis, ‘leadership roles’ were defined as directors, presidents, chief executives and chairmen (and their deputies or policy advisors) and directors or heads of research or policy, plus senior fellows where they were responsible for significant research/policy leadership. For a more detailed breakdown <a href="https://www.desmog.uk/2018/03/28/it-s-very-male-dominated-space-welcome-sexist-world-brexit-and-climate-science-denial#ref1" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">see below</a>.When roles include board members, trustees, advisors and fellows were included, the number rises very slightly to about 27 percent; with women occupying under one-third of the positions.The UK’s most prominent climate science denial think tank, the GWPF, is also hugely <a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/do-male-climate-change-sceptics-have-a-problem-with-women/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">male dominated</a> - with just one woman and 35 men at leadership level....</div></div></div></div><div>
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gwpf attacked attack roy soc: h<a href="http://www.thegwpf.org/images/stories/gwpf-reports/montford-royal_society.pdf">ttp://www.thegwpf.org/images/stories/gwpf-reports/montford-royal_society.pdf</a><div>=
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<a href="http://www.desmog.uk/2016/10/12/world-s-oldest-scientific-academy-royal-society-allow-climate-denying-gwpf-lecture-go-ahead-despite-internal">http://www.desmog.uk/2016/10/12/world-s-oldest-scientific-academy-royal-society-allow-climate-denying-gwpf-lecture-go-ahead-despite-internal</a>

 Royal Society will be going ahead with the controversial Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) annual lecture next week <a target="blank" href="http://www.desmog.uk/2016/10/05/exclusive-royal-society-under-internal-pressure-cancel-venue-booking-global-warming-policy-foundation">despite internal pressure to cancel the event</a>, DeSmog UK has learned.

The

decision to allow the lecture to go forward was made during the Royal

Society’s governing council meeting last week where several fellows and

associates of the society raised concern over the climate science

denying GWPF’s 17 October event.

As DeSmog UK

understands, there was a strong sense among many at the meeting that

the Royal Society – the world’s oldest scientific academy, founded in

1660 – had made a mistake in accepting the booking for the GWPF’s ‘by invitation only’ lecture to be delivered by Matt Ridley.

However, there was a divergence in opinion on what should be done in response – for example, cancel it or allow it to continue.

Joanna Haigh, Royal Society fellow and council member who attended the meeting, told DeSmog UK: “The Royal Society has decided that cancelling the booking would give the event an unwarranted higher profile.”

She added that “some scientist experts will attend the meeting and keep check on the accuracy of the statements.”

According

to a spokesperson for the Royal Society, a range of views were

expressed during the meeting, but their position remains unchanged: “The GWPF

is one of many organisations who hire space to hold its own events at

the Royal Society.  There is no suggestion of endorsement by the Royal

Society for the views expressed at these events.”

They

continued: “The evidence shows us that the earth is warming and that

recent warming is largely caused by human activities. Once that is

accepted, there is scope for debate on the policy responses and that is

the area that the GWPF claims to be interested in.

“If the GWPF

uses this opportunity to misrepresent the scientific evidence it would

undermine the legitimacy of its views on policy responses to

climate change.”

The GWPF, founded by former chancellor and Conservative peer Lord Nigel Lawson, was <a target="blank" href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-28321641">forced to split its operations in 2014</a> after a <a target="blank" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-global-warming-policy-foundation-case-report">Charity Commission report</a> found its materials lacked balance and “promoted a particular position on global warming.”

And as DeSmog UK

understands, it was a commonly held view by everyone who spoke up

during last week’s meeting – which was the majority of those who

attended – that the GWPF’s activities are reprehensible.

The fact that the climate denial think tank has a few Royal Society fellows in its ranks was also noted.

As

Professor Andrew Watson, a Royal Society Fellow and Royal Society

Research Professor at the University of Exeter, who is not on the

council, previously told DeSmogUK: “I expect the RS agreed to this [booking] because they didn't want to be accused of censorship, but the GWPF is not just interested in hiring a lecture theatre — they are also hiring the brand.”

This isn’t the first time either that a GWPF

event has been held at the Royal Society. In 2012, the group’s annual

lecture was delivered at the venue by the climate science denying German electric utility executive Fritz Vahrenholt, where he dismissed the role of CO2 in climate change.

But as the Royal Society’s spokesperson said: “The

Society has a strong track record of opposing those who cherry-pick or

misrepresent evidence when it comes to the science of climate change and

indeed we have had robust disagreements with the GWPF in the past.”

In 2013, Royal Society president, professor Sir Paul Nurse, a Nobel prize-winning biologist, accused GWPF

founder Lord Lawson of cherry-picking global temperature data to argue

there had been a global warming “pause”. This misleading claim was then

debunked by a fellow of the Royal Society, Professor Sir Brian Hoskins

of Imperial College London.

A <a target="blank" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/13/global-warming-meeting-sceptics-scientists">private briefing</a> was then held between Royal Society scientists, Lawson and other members of the GWPF to discuss the science. However, this quickly erupted into a public row over whether the GWPF had spun the meeting as a publicity coup.</div><div>=</div>
#1 productivity/publishing?!
thacker:A recent <a href="http://www.boussalis.com/docs/skepticism_bc2013.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">working paper</a> by two Harvard Law students finds that Al Gore and his documentary remain a favorite target of climate skeptics, and that the matter is one of many themes that comprise the “contrarian corpus” of climate skepticism. But why a think tank that seeks to advance solutions to climate change engages in such shoddy scholarship and a campaign of disinformation remains unclear.
http://www.boussalis.com/docs/skepticism_bc2013.pdf  stat analysis (gore?) som of mc & dunlap et al}]
Organization Name Number of Documents American Enterprise Institute (AEI) 642 Cato Institute (CEI) 301 Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)  937 Fraser Institute 63 
Global Warming Policy Foundation 7,892 
Heartland Institute 272 Heritage Foundation 220 Hoover Institution 24 International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project (ICECAP)  1,784 
George C. Marshall Institute 139 National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) 43 National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) 386 Pacific Institute 226 Reason Foundation 159 Total 13,114 
Table 1: The number of documents currently in the corpus for 15 well-known conservative thttps://atlasmonitor.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/charlie-hebdo-climate-scepticism-free-speech/<header class="entry-header" style="word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 20px;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 54px;">Charlie Hebdo, Climate Scepticism & Free Speech</h1><div class="entry-meta" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 15px;"><a class="author" rel="author" href="https://atlasmonitor.wordpress.com/author/jbuc912/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">jbuc912</a> / <a class="entry-date" href="https://atlasmonitor.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/charlie-hebdo-climate-scepticism-free-speech/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">January 12, 2015</a></div></header><div class="entry-content" style="border: 0px; margin: 1.5em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 20px;"><p style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=c920274f2a364603849bbb505&id=d7b95a2625&e=fed9bb2525" target="blank" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">GWPF </a>| 12 Jan 2015<p style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Climate Extremism & The Chilling Effect On Free Speech<p style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">At the end of that process, some Global Warming <span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">deniers <span style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">would never admit their mistake and as a result they would be executed. Perhaps that would be the only way to stop the rest of them. The death penalty would have been justified in terms of the enormous numbers of saved future lives. — Professor Richard Parncutt, University of Graz, Austria, <a href="https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/12/24/prof-richard-parncutt-death-penalty-for-global-warming-deniers/" style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">25 October 2012</a><div style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2014/02/23/new-york-times-publishes-cartoon-about-killing-deniers-with-icicles/" target="blank" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/24.media.tumblr.com/d6f595be1f72b9b547706c90bd33f416/tumblr_n1gljjfA7Q1qalacuo1_400.jpg" alt="" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%; border: 0px;" /></a></div><p style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As I read the grim headlines from Paris, I was reminded of another encounter in another European city, Berlin, specifically at the Opernplatz where the Nazis staged one of their most infamous book burnings in 1933. One of the authors whose works they incinerated was the great German poet, Heinrich Heine, whose epigraph now lines a memorial marking this historically ominous event: <em style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“That was but a prelude; where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people as well.” And where they drive out and kill Jews, they will ultimately drive out and kill you, too. –James Kirchick, <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/10/do-jews-have-a-future-in-france.html" style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Daily Beast, 10 January 2015</a><div style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The message is clear: climate change deniers are scum. Their words are so wicked and dangerous that they must be silenced, or criminalised, or forced beyond the pale alongside those other crackpots who claim there was no Nazi Holocaust against the Jews. Perhaps climate change deniers should even be killed off, hanged like those evil men who were tried Nuremberg-style the first time around. Whatever the truth about our warming planet, it is clear there is a tidal wave of intolerance in the debate about climate change which is eroding free speech and melting rational debate. <strong style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">—Brendan O’Neill, <a href="http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/1782#.VLOTzCusU40" style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Spiked, 6 October 2006</a><div style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div><div style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1) Charlie Hebdo, Climate Scepticism & Free Speech – <a href="http://judithcurry.com/2015/01/11/charlie-challenging-free-speech/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Climate Etc, 11 January 2015</a><p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2) Crackdown Ordered On Climate-Change Sceptics – <a href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/environment/article4051905.ece?CMP=SOC-appshare-DIG2496855241-em-and-1.7.2" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Times, 2 April 2014</a><p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3) Climate Scientist Forced Out From New Job In ‘McCarthy’-Style Witch Hunt – <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2629171/Climate-change-scientist-claims-forced-new-job-McCarthy-style-witch-hunt-academics-world.html" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Daily Mail, 15 May 2014</a><p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4) Raymond Snoddy: BBC In Deep Water Over Climate Change Censorship Row – <a href="http://mediatel.co.uk/newsline/2014/07/09/bbc-in-deep-water-over-climate-change-censorship-row/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MediaTel, 9 July 2014</a><p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5) The BBC Is Scared Of Nigel Lawson – And It’s Right To Be – The Spectator, 12 July 2014<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6) Climate Extremism & The Chilling Effect On Free Speech – <a href="http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/1782#.VLOTzCusU40" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Spiked, 6 October 2006</a><p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I wonder what sentences judges might hand down at future international criminal tribunals on those who will be partially but directly responsible for millions of deaths from starvation, famine and disease in decades ahead. I put [their climate change denial] in a similar moral category to Holocaust denial – except that this time the Holocaust is yet to come, and we still have time to avoid it. Those who try to ensure we don’t will one day have to answer for their crimes. –Mark Lynas, <a href="http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/1782#.VLOV-CusU42" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">19 May 2006</a><p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the climate wars, those that use pejorative names for people that they disagree with are the equivalents of racists and anti-semites, and deserve opprobrium and disrespect. It is very sad, not to mention bad for science, to see scientists engaging in this behavior. We need to open up the public debate about climate change, and get rid of the tyranny of political ‘correctness’ in the climate debate that is being enforced by a handful of self-appointed and readily-offended fools. –Judith Curry, <a href="http://judithcurry.com/2015/01/11/charlie-challenging-free-speech/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Climate Etc, 11 January 2015</a><p style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As George Bernard Shaw said, “All great truths begin as blasphemies”. In the West in the past, it was the Christian God that was protected by a censorious forcefield. Now it’s climate-change orthodoxy, the ideology of multiculturalism, Islamo-sensitivities, gay marriage… These days, speaking ill of any of those new gods could earn you a metaphorical lashing from the mob, or expulsion from polite society, or possibly a prison sentence. –Brendan O’Neill, <a href="http://brendanoneill.co.uk/post/107600481429/restore-the-right-to-offend" style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">The Australian, 10 January 2014</a>
<p style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A globally-renowned climate scientist has been forced to step down from a think-tank after he was subjected to ‘Mc-Carthy’-style pressure from scientists around the world. Professor Lennart Bengtsson, 79, a leading academic from the University of Reading, left the high-profile Global Warming Policy Foundation as a result of the threats, which he described as ‘virtually unbearable’. In his resignation letter, published on the think-tank’s website, he wrote: ‘If this is going to continue I will be unable to conduct my normal work and will even start to worry about my health and safety. I see no limit and end to what will happen. It is a situation that reminds me about the time of McCarthy.” –Willis Robinson,<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2629171/Climate-change-scientist-claims-forced-new-job-McCarthy-style-witch-hunt-academics-world.html" style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Daily Mail, 15 May 2014</a><div style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[img gagged]</div><p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Science regresses if it becomes intolerant of criticism. At the beginning of her reign, Queen Elizabeth I of England spoke words of tolerance in an age of religious strife, declaring that she had no intention of making windows into men’s souls. Unlike religion, science is not a matter of the heart or of belief. It exists only in what can be demonstrated. In their persecution of an aged colleague who stepped out of line and their call for scientists to be subject to a faith test, 21st-century climate scientists have shown less tolerance than a 16th-century monarch. There is something rotten in the state of climate science. –Rupert Darwall, <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/378011/science-mccarthyism-rupert-darwall" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">National Review, 15 May 2014</a><p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ministers who question the majority view among scientists about climate change should “shut up” and instead repeat the Government line on the issue, according to MPs. The BBC should also give less airtime to climate sceptics and its editors should seek special clearance to interview them, according to the Commons Science and Technology Committee. Andrew Miller, the committee’s Labour chairman, said that appearances on radio and television by climate sceptics such as Lord Lawson of Blaby, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, should be accompanied by “health warnings”. –Ben Webster, <a href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/environment/article4051905.ece?CMP=SOC-appshare-DIG2496855241-em-and-1.7.2" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Times, 2 April 2014</a><p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The danger comes instead from self-censorship. Which BBC editor now is going to invite Lord Lawson or even Prof Bob Carter on to their programmes in the certain knowledge that they are likely to be criticised and perhaps have time-consuming complaints upheld against them? As Lord Lawson argues, surely correctly, he has, in effect, been banned by the BBC. It is an easy thing to judge. Let’s see when he next appears in the climate change context. There will, of course, be no edict. He will just never ever be invited to take part in any BBC programme on the issue. –Raymond Snoddy, <a href="http://mediatel.co.uk/newsline/2014/07/09/bbc-in-deep-water-over-climate-change-censorship-row/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MediaTel, 9 July 2014</a><p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The BBC has effectively banned Lord Lawson, the former chancellor (and former editor of this magazine) from appearing on its programmes to debate climate change, unless he is introduced with a statement discrediting his views. When people try to close down debate rather than engage with it, there is a pretty clear conclusion to be drawn: they lack confidence in their own case. —<a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-week/leading-article/9259911/climatic-correctness/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Spectator, 12 July 2014</a><p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1) Charlie Hebdo, Climate Scepticism & Free Speech
<a href="http://judithcurry.com/2015/01/11/charlie-challenging-free-speech/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Climate Etc, 11 January 2015</a><p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Judith Curry<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In response to the tragic shootings at the headquarters of satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, there have been a number of provocative essays on freedom of speech.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I have discussed the issue in a previous post <a href="http://judithcurry.com/2014/04/19/in-defense-of-free-speech/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In defense of free speech</a>, but the recent events have compelled me to write a post on the broader issues raised by Charlie.  Below are excerpts from articles on the topic that have resonated with me or that I otherwise found provocative. […]<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Climate wars<p style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anyone defending the satirists at Charlie should have a tough time defending Michael Mann in his legal war against the satirical writings of Mark Steyn and Rand Simberg.  It will be interesting to see if Charlie and the defense of satirists changes the dynamics of the Mann vs NRO/CEI/Steyn lawsuits.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">David Brooks says it best:<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Most of us move toward more complicated views of reality and more forgiving views of others. We do try to open conversations with listening rather than insult.
Healthy societies, in other words, don’t suppress speech, but they do grant different standing to different sorts of people. Wise and considerate scholars are heard with high respect. Satirists are heard with bemused semi-respect. Racists and anti-Semites are heard through a filter of opprobrium and disrespect. People who want to be heard attentively have to earn it through their conduct.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the climate wars, those that use pejorative names for people that they disagree with  are the equivalents of racists and anti-semites, and deserve opprobrium and disrespect.  It is very sad, not to mention bad for science,  to see scientists engaging in this behavior.<p style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We need to open up the public debate about climate change, and get rid of the tyranny of political ‘correctness’ in the climate debate that is being enforced by a <em style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">handful of self-appointed and readily-offended fools.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://judithcurry.com/2015/01/11/charlie-challenging-free-speech/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Full post</a><p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2) Crackdown Ordered On Climate-Change Sceptics
<a href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/environment/article4051905.ece?CMP=SOC-appshare-DIG2496855241-em-and-1.7.2" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Times, 2 April 2014</a>
Ben Webster, Environment Editor<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ministers who question the majority view among scientists about climate change should “shut up” and instead repeat the Government line on the issue, according to MPs.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The BBC should also give less airtime to climate sceptics and its editors should seek special clearance to interview them, according to the <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/science-and-technology-committee/" target="_blank" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Commons Science and Technology Committee</a>. Andrew Miller, the committee’s Labour chairman, said that appearances on radio and television by climate sceptics such as Lord Lawson of Blaby, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, should be accompanied by “health warnings”.<p style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr Miller likened climate sceptics to the Monster Raving Loony Party and said that the BBC should limit interviews with them just as it restricted the coverage it gave to fringe political parties.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In a report published today, the committee criticises the BBC’s coverage of climate change, saying that its news programmes “continue to make mistakes in their coverage of climate science by giving opinions and scientific fact the same weight”.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The MPs say that the BBC should apply the same “stringent requirements” to interviewing climate sceptics as it applies to interviewing politicians. “For example, any proposal to invite politicians to contribute to non-political output must be referred to the Chief Adviser Politics. The BBC could benefit from applying a similarly stringent approach when interviewing non- experts on controversial scientific topics such as climate change,” the committee says.<p style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Speaking to <em style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Times, Mr Miller added that when Lord Lawson appeared, the BBC should make clear that his think-tank, the Global Warming Policy Foundation, questioned the conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “At the very least, put a caption at the bottom of the screen: ‘the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s views are not accepted by 97 per cent of scientists’,” he said.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The committee’s report says that the Government is “failing to clearly and effectively communicate climate science to the public”. It concludes: “All Ministers should acquaint themselves with the science of climate change and then they, and their Departments, should reflect the Government approach in person, in media interviews and online by a presenting a clear and consistent message.”
Mr Miller named Owen Paterson, the Environment Secretary, as one of the ministers he believed had deviated from the Government line on climate change.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/environment/article4051905.ece?CMP=SOC-appshare-DIG2496855241-em-and-1.7.2" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Full story</a><div style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[img green kkk] <div style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div><p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">3) Climate Scientist Forced Out From New Job In ‘McCarthy’-Style Witch Hunt
<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2629171/Climate-change-scientist-claims-forced-new-job-McCarthy-style-witch-hunt-academics-world.html" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Daily Mail, 15 May 2014</a><p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Willis Robinson<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A globally-renowned climate scientist has been forced to step down from a think-tank after he was subjected to ‘Mc-Carthy’-style pressure from scientists around the world. <p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Professor Lennart Bengtsson, 79, a leading academic from the University of Reading, left the high-profile Global Warming Policy Foundation as a result of the threats, which he described as ‘virtually unbearable’.<p style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Swedish climatologist, who has published more than 200 papers, said he received hundreds of emails from colleagues criticising his decision to switch to the organisation.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">His ‘defection’ was described as the biggest switch from the pro-climate change lobby to the sceptic camp to date.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In his resignation letter, published on the think-tank’s website, he wrote: ‘If this is going to continue I will be unable to conduct my normal work and will even start to worry about my health and safety.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘I see therefore no other way out therefore than resigning from GWPF. I had not expecting such an enormous world-wide pressure put at me from a community that I have been close to all my active life.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘Colleagues are withdrawing their support, other colleagues are withdrawing from joint authorship etc.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘I see no limit and end to what will happen. It is a situation that reminds me about the time of McCarthy.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2629171/Climate-change-scientist-claims-forced-new-job-McCarthy-style-witch-hunt-academics-world.html" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Full story</a><p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4) Raymond Snoddy: BBC In Deep Water Over Climate Change Censorship Row
<a href="http://mediatel.co.uk/newsline/2014/07/09/bbc-in-deep-water-over-climate-change-censorship-row/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MediaTel, 9 July 2014</a><p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As Nigel Lawson, the former chancellor, accuses the BBC of banning him from debating climate change at the Corporation, Raymond Snoddy warns that the reputation of BBC News would be seriously compromised if journalists were found to be censoring.<div style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img src="https://i2.wp.com/fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/082/5/6/bbc__protecting_some_scientists_from_real_debate_by_kajm-d7bbzlb.jpg" alt="" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%;" align="none" height="273" width="400" /></div><p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The BBC is getting itself in a huge hole over its coverage of climate change – and it does not seem to see the need to stop digging.<p style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The controversy is best highlighted by the BBC’s decision to uphold a complaint against the Today programme for the appearance of climate change sceptic Lord Lawson to discuss the impact of climate on the recent floods.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A complaint against the World at One has also been partially upheld after an interview with a sceptical scientist Professor Bob Carter, head of the department of earth science at James Cook University.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Even though the former Chancellor was more than balanced by his co-guest the scientist Sir Brian Hoskins, chairman of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, the BBC apologised to complainant Chit Chung, a Green Party activist who has a draught proofing and insulation business in Dorset. […]<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The danger comes instead from self-censorship. Which editor now is going to invite Lord Lawson or even Prof Bob Carter from New Zealand on to their programmes in the certain knowledge that they are likely to be criticised and perhaps have time-consuming complaints upheld against them?<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As Lord Lawson argues, surely correctly, he has, in effect, been banned by the BBC. It is an easy thing to judge. Let’s see when he next appears in the climate change context.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There will, of course, be no edict. He will just never ever be invited to take part in any BBC programme on an issue that he has put considerable effort into learning about, and one where he has published a best-selling book.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On the BBC internal contacts list producers add advisory notes against names and you can be sure the former Chancellor will get one.<p style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One of the key components of the case for a new licence fee is the integrity of BBC News. The case for man-made global warming may indeed be the right one, but the reputation of BBC News would be seriously compromised if journalists were found to be censoring, if not inconvenient truths then troubling anomalies.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://mediatel.co.uk/newsline/2014/07/09/bbc-in-deep-water-over-climate-change-censorship-row/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Full story</a><p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5) The BBC Is Scared Of Nigel Lawson – And It’s Right To Be
The Spectator, 12 July 2014<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is only a matter of time before Nigel Lawson — if he is allowed on the BBC at all — has to have his words spoken by an actor in the manner of Gerry Adams at the height of the IRA’s bombing campaign during the 1980s. In the case of Mr Adams, whose voice was banned from the airwaves by the government, the BBC stood up for free speech. But it is quite a different story with Lord Lawson.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The BBC has effectively banned the former chancellor (and former editor of this magazine) from appearing on its programmes to debate climate change, unless he is introduced with a statement discrediting his views.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The BBC’s Editorial Complaints Department this week ruled that the Today programme broke BBC guidelines in February by inviting Lord Lawson to a debate with Sir Brian Hoskins, chairman of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change. It bizarrely claimed that his views are ‘not supported by the evidence’ — though he had pointed out, correctly, that the planet has not been warming for the past 17 years. Nevertheless, the BBC politburo warned, listeners should have been warned that Lord Lawson is in a minority and, therefore, his words ‘should not be regarded as carrying equal weight to those of experts such as Sir Brian Hoskins’.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lord Lawson is, of course, not a scientist. But a great many people speak on the BBC on subjects in which they do not have any formal qualifications: Al Gore, for example. Or Rajendra Pachauri, a railway engineer by training, who now runs the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). Neither does the BBC seem to be worried about non-scientists addressing scientific issues when it comes to such things as fracking or GM crops, on which any green activists are welcome to speak, however bizarre their scaremongering theories.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What Lord Lawson is, however, is chairman of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), a think-tank that has no quarrel with the idea of global warming. Its aim is to appeal to reason, and to engage in mature argument rather than hysteria. Lord Lawson is advised by scientists who until recently included Lennart Bengtsson, a research fellow at the University of Reading. Professor Bengtsson was hounded off the GWPF board by his fellow scientists.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When people try to close down debate rather than engage with it, there is a pretty clear conclusion to be drawn: they lack confidence in their own case. The suppression of debate was shown again this week when Vladimir Semonov, a climate scientist at the Geomar Institute in Kiel, Germany, revealed that a paper he wrote in 2009 questioning the accuracy of climate models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was effectively censored by the scientist to whom it was sent for review. Their reasons for demanding passages be removed seems rather less than scientifically rigorous: one wrote that the offending material would ‘lead to unnecessary confusion in the climate science community’ and another said that ‘this entire discussion has to disappear’.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The process of peer review used in the scientific press is often held up as a mark of quality, which enables poorly conducted scientific research to be weeded out before it reaches the eyes of readers less qualified to judge the rigour of the work. This may to some extent be true, even if peer review failed to spot weaknesses in the now discredited Fleischmann-Pons cold fusion experiments of 1989 or stop the MMR scare.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But the peer review process is also open to abuse. Just as the social sciences became infected by political correctness 20 years ago, climate science has become governed by climatic correctness. To question the consensus that the world is facing fire and tempest as a result of anthropogenic global warming is, in the eyes of some working in the field, simply not allowable. That is something which was revealed in the Climategate scandal of 2009 when leaked emails from the University of East Anglia caught out scientists who had been withholding data, trying to keep rivals’ papers out of journals and in one case threatening violence against a sceptical scientist.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The BBC at first declined to go into the content of the emails, preferring to treat the story as a case of data theft. The fact that the emails contained material of extreme public interest seemed to count for nothing. The unknown individuals who leaked the emails can only dream of the hero worship afforded to Edward Snowden and Julian Assange; attitudes on the left towards release of information seem to swing dramatically depending on what information is being released.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The same is true of the BBC’s attitude towards balanced debate — something which is supposed to be guaranteed by its charter. The BBC has decided that it is allowable to debate such issues as whether benefit cuts are causing distress or whether sports-women are being discriminated against by male-dominated bastions — something the Today programme does virtually every morning. But dare to question whether it is wise for the country to embark on the economic experiment of abandoning fossil fuel on the back of some far-from-robust scientific models, and you will have to find another media outlet.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6) Climate Extremism & The Chilling Effect On Free Speech
<a href="http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/1782#.VLOTzCusU40" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Spiked, 6 October 2006</a><p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Brendan O’Neill<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Whoever thought that serious commentators would want it made illegal to have a row about the weather? One Australian columnist has proposed outlawing ‘climate change denial’. ‘David Irving is under arrest in Austria for Holocaust denial’, she wrote. ‘Perhaps there is a case for making climate change denial an offence. It is a crime against humanity, after all.’ (1) Others have suggested that climate change deniers should be put on trial in the future, Nuremberg-style, and made to account for their attempts to cover up the ‘global warming…Holocaust’ (2).<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The message is clear: climate change deniers are scum. Their words are so wicked and dangerous that they must be silenced, or criminalised, or forced beyond the pale alongside those other crackpots who claim there was no Nazi Holocaust against the Jews. Perhaps climate change deniers should even be killed off, hanged like those evil men who were tried Nuremberg-style the first time around.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Whatever the truth about our warming planet, it is clear there is a tidal wave of intolerance in the debate about climate change which is eroding free speech and melting rational debate. There has been no decree from on high or piece of legislation outlawing climate change denial, and indeed there is no need to criminalise it, as the Australian columnist suggests. Because in recent months it has been turned into a taboo, chased out of polite society by a wink and a nod, letters of complaint, newspaper articles continually comparing climate change denial to Holocaust denial.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">An attitude of ‘You can’t say that!’ now surrounds debates about climate change, which in many ways is more powerful and pernicious than an outright ban. I am not a scientist or an expert on climate change, but I know what I don’t like – and this demonisation of certain words and ideas is an affront to freedom of speech and open, rational debate.<p style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The loaded term itself – ‘climate change denier’ – is used to mark out certain people as immoral, untrustworthy. According to Richard D North, author most recently of <em style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rich is Beautiful: A Very Personal Defence of Mass Affluence: ‘It is deeply pejorative to call someone a “climate change denier”…it is a phrase designedly reminiscent of the idea of Holocaust denial – the label applied to those misguided or wicked people who believe, or claim to believe, the Nazis did not annihilate the Jews, and others, in very great numbers.’ (3)<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">People of various views and hues tend to get lumped together under the umbrella put-down ‘climate change denier’ – from those who argue the planet is getting hotter but we will be able to deal with it, to those who claim the planet is unlikely to get much hotter at all (4). On Google there are now over 80,000 search returns, and counting, for the phrase climate change denial.<p style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Others take the tactic of openly labelling climate change deniers as cranks, possibly even people who might need their heads checked. In a speech last month, in which he said people ‘should be scared’ about global warming, UK environment secretary David Miliband said ‘those who deny [climate change] are the flat-earthers of the twenty-first century’ (5). Taking a similar tack, former US vice president-turned-green-warrior Al Gore recently declared: ‘Fifteen per cent of the population believe the moon landing was actually staged in a movie lot in Arizona and somewhat fewer still believe the Earth is flat. I think they all get together with the global warming deniers on a Saturday night and party.’ (6)<p style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is not only environmentalist activists and green-leaning writers who are seeking to silence climate change deniers/sceptics/critics/whatever you prefer. Last month the Royal Society – Britain’s premier scientific academy founded in 1660, whose members have included some of the greatest scientists – wrote a letter to ExxonMobil demanding that the oil giant cut off its funding to groups that have ‘misrepresented the science of climate change by outright denial of the evidence’.<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It was the first time the Royal Society had ever written to a company complaining about its activities. The letter had something of a hectoring, intolerant tone: ‘At our meeting in July…you indicated that ExxonMobil would not be providing any further funding to these organisations. I would be grateful if you could let me know when ExxonMobil plans to carry out this pledge.’ (7)<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One could be forgiven for asking what business it is of the Royal Society to tell ExxonMobil whom it can and cannot support – just as we might balk if ExxonMobil tried to tell the Royal Society what to do. The Society claims it is merely defending a ‘scientific consensus…the evidence’ against ExxonMobil’s duplicitous attempts to play down global warming for its own oily self-interest. Yet some scientists have attacked the idea that there can ever be untouchable cast-iron scientific facts, which should be immune from debate or protected from oil-moneyed think-tanks.<p style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">An open letter to the Society – signed by Tim Ball, a professor of climatology at the University of Winnipeg, and others – argues that ‘scientific inquiry is unique because it requires falsifiability’: ‘The beauty of science is that no issue is ever “settled”, that no question is beyond being more fully understood, that no conclusion is immune to further experimentation. And yet for the first time in history, the Royal Society is shamelessly using the media to say emphatically: “case closed” on all issues related to climate change.’<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Or as Charles Jones, an emeritus English professor at the University of Edinburgh, put it in a letter to a publication that recently lambasted climate change deniers, ‘[W]e are left with the feeling that [climate change] is a scientific model which is unfalsifiable and which has not been – and indeed cannot be – the subject of any theoretical counter-proposals whatsoever. As such, it must surely be unique in the history of science. Even a powerful model such as Relativity Theory has been the object of scientific debate and emendation.’ (8)<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For all the talk of simply preserving the facts against climate change deniers, there is increasingly a pernicious moralism and authoritarianism in the attempts to silence certain individuals and groups. This is clear from the use of the term ‘climate change denier’, which, as Charles Jones argued, is an attempt to assign any ‘doubters’ with ‘the same moral repugnance one associates with Holocaust denial’ (9).<p style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The <em style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Guardian columnist George Monbiot recently celebrated the ‘recanting’ of both the tabloid <em style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sun and the business bible <em style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Economist on the issue of global warming. (‘Recant’ – an interesting choice of word. According to my <em style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">OED it means ‘To withdraw, retract or renounce a statement, opinion or belief as erroneous, and<em style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">esp. with formal or public confession of error in matters of religion.’ Recanting is often what those accused before the Spanish Inquisition did to save their hides.) Pleased by the <em style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sun and <em style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Economist’s turnaround, Monbiot wrote: ‘Almost everywhere, climate change denial now looks as stupid and as unacceptable as Holocaust denial.’ (10)<p style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Earlier this year, when a correspondent for the American current affairs show <em style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">60 Minutes was asked why his various feature programmes on global warming did not include the views of global warming sceptics, he replied: ‘If I do an interview with Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?’ Here, climate change deniers are explicitly painted as the bad guys. He also argued that, ‘This isn’t about politics…this is about sound science’, and went so far as to claim that it would be problematic even to air the views of climate change sceptics: ‘There comes a point in journalism where striving for balance becomes irresponsible.’<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Some take the moral equivalence between climate change denial and Holocaust denial to its logical conclusion. They argue that climate change deniers are actually complicit in a future Holocaust – the global warming Holocaust – and thus will have to be brought to trial in the future. Green author and columnist Mark Lynas writes: ‘I wonder what sentences judges might hand down at future international criminal tribunals on those who will be partially but directly responsible for millions of deaths from starvation, famine and disease in decades ahead. I put [their climate change denial] in a similar moral category to Holocaust denial – except that this time the Holocaust is yet to come, and we still have time to avoid it. Those who try to ensure we don’t will one day have to answer for their crimes.’ (11)<p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/1782#.VLOTzCusU40" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Full essay</a></div>steyn bk rev mentions:
<h1 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 9px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; line-height: 1.263em; text-transform: uppercase; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">LENNART BENGTSSON RESIGNS: GWPF VOICES SHOCK AND CONCERN AT THE EXTENT OF INTOLERANCE WITHIN THE CLIMATE SCIENCE COMMUNITY</h1><ul class="meta" style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; list-style: none; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.286em; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 6px 0px 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; list-style: none; float: left; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Date: 14/05/14</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 6px 0px 7px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; list-style: none; float: left; background-image: url(" images="images" separator-meta.png="separator-meta.png" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" px="px" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><span class="author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 6px 0px 7px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; list-style: none; float: left; background-image: url(" images="images" separator-meta.png="separator-meta.png" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" px="px" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">The Global Warming Policy Foundation</li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; line-height: 1.176em; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">It is with great regret, and profound shock, that we have received Professor Lennart Bengtsson’s letter of resignation from his membership of the GWPF’s Academic Advisory Council.</h2><p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">The Foundation, while of course respecting Professor Bengtsson’s decision, notes with deep concern the disgraceful intolerance within the climate science community which has prompted his resignation.<p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Professor Bengtsson’s letter of resignation from our Academic Advisory Council was sent to its chairman, Professor David Henderson.  His letter and Professor Henderson’s response are attached below.<p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Dr Benny Peiser, Director, The Global Warming Policy Foundation<p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"> <h2 style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; line-height: 1.176em; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Resigning from the GWPF</h2><p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Dear Professor Henderson,<p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">I have been put under such an enormous group pressure in recent days from all over the world that has become virtually unbearable to me. If this is going to continue I will be unable to conduct my normal work and will even start to worry about my health and safety. I see therefore no other way out therefore than resigning from GWPF. I had not expecting such an enormous world-wide pressure put at me from a community that I have been close to all my active life. Colleagues are withdrawing their support, other colleagues are withdrawing from joint authorship etc.<p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">I see no limit and end to what will happen. It is a situation that reminds me about the time of McCarthy. I would never have expecting anything similar in such an original peaceful community as meteorology. Apparently it has been transformed in recent years.<p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Under these situation I will be unable to contribute positively to the work of GWPF and consequently therefore I believe it is the best for me to reverse my decision to join its Board at the earliest possible time.<p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">With my best regards<p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Lennart Bengtsson<p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"> <h2 style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; line-height: 1.176em; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Your letter of resignation</h2><p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Dear Professor Bengtsson,<p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">I have just seen your letter to me, resigning from the position which you had accepted just three weeks ago, as a member of the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s Academic Advisory Council.<p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Your letter came as a surprise and a shock. I greatly regret your decision, and I know that my regret will be shared by all my colleagues on the Council.<p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Your resignation is not only a sad event for us in the Foundation:  it is also a matter of profound and much wider concern. The reactions that you speak of, and which have forced you to reconsider the decision to join us, reveal a degree of intolerance, and a rejection of the principle of open scientific inquiry, which are truly shocking. They are evidence of a situation which the Global Warming Policy Foundation was created to remedy.<p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">In your recent published interview with Marcel Crok, you said that <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">‘if I cannot stand my own opinions, life will become completely unbearable’. All of us on the Council will feel deep sympathy with you in an ordeal which you should never have had to endure.<p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">With great regret, and all good wishes for the future.<p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">David Henderson, Chairman, GWPF’s Academic Advisory Council<p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"> <h2 style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; line-height: 1.176em; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Letter by Nigel Lawson to Professor Bengtsson</h2><p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Dear Professor Bengtsson<div style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">It is with great regret that I read your email to David Henderson informing him of your decision to resign from the Academic Advisory Council of the GWPF.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">I fully understand your reason; but it is an appalling state of affairs, and your reference to McCarthyism is fully warranted.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">I am very sorry that your brief association with the GWPF has, as a result of the disgraceful behaviour of others, caused you such distress.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Yours sincerely,<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; border: 0px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Nigel Lawson, Chairman, The Global Warming Policy Foundation</div>wikiLennart Bengtsson (born 5 July 1935, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trollh%C3%A4ttan" title="Trollhättan" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Trollhättan</a>), is a Swedish <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Meteorologist" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">meteorologist</a>. His research interests include <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_sensitivity" title="Climate sensitivity" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">climate sensitivity</a>, extreme events, climate variability and climate predictability. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Bengtsson#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[1]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="font-weight: inherit; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><div id="toctitle" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr;"><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Bengtsson#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Bengtsson#Career" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">1Career</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Bengtsson#Environmental_Research_Letters" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">2Environmental Research Letters</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Bengtsson#Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">3Global Warming Policy Foundation</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Bengtsson#References" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">4References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Bengtsson#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">5External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Career[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lennart_Bengtsson&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Career" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">edit</a>]</h2>He was Head of Research at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Centre_for_Medium-Range_Weather_Forecasts" title="European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts</a> from 1975 to 1981 and then Director until 1990; then director of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck_Institute_for_Meteorology" title="Max Planck Institute for Meteorology" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Max Planck Institute for Meteorology</a> in Hamburg. He is now a Senior Research Fellow at the Environmental Systems Science Centre in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Reading" title="University of Reading" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">University of Reading</a>.In 2005 he was awarded the René Descartes Prize for Collaborative Research<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Bengtsson#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[2]</a> together with Prof. Ola M. Johannessen and Dr. Leonid Bobylev from the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre in Norway and Russia for the Climate and Environmental Change in the Arctic project. In 2006 he was awarded the 51st<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Meteorological_Organization_Prize" title="International Meteorological Organization Prize" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">International Meteorological Organization Prize</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Meteorological_Organization" title="World Meteorological Organization" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">World Meteorological Organization</a> for pioneering research in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_weather_prediction" title="Numerical weather prediction" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">numerical weather prediction</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Bengtsson#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[3]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Environmental Research Letters[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lennart_Bengtsson&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Environmental Research Letters" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">edit</a>]</h2>A draft paper discussing issues of climate sensitivity and uncertainties in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPCC_Fourth_Assessment_Report" title="IPCC Fourth Assessment Report" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">IPCC Fourth</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPCC_Fifth_Assessment_Report" title="IPCC Fifth Assessment Report" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Fifth Assessment Reports</a> in relation to a recent paper by Otto et al. was submitted by Bengtsson and colleagues to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Research_Letters" title="Environmental Research Letters" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Environmental Research Letters</a> in February 2014, and was rejected in mid March after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_review" title="Peer review" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">peer review</a> by two referees who found that it did not meet the requirement to "significantly advance knowledge of the field". Following this, Bengtsson and his co-authors then requested the journal to publish it as a shorter "Perspective" article, but in early April the journal's editorial board turned this request down, adding that the paper contained errors and exceeded the normal size limit for "Perspective" pieces. They suggested that the errors should be corrected and a full length paper resubmitted with a new analysis of the data.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Bengtsson#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[4]</a>The journal said they reject 65-70 percent of papers submitted.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Bengtsson#cite_note-fiona-5" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[5]</a>As its lead story on 16 May 2014, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">The Times</a> said that the paper Bengtsson had submitted to Environmental Research Letters in February had been rejected for what Bengtsson called "activist" reasons.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Bengtsson#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[6]</a> The publishers, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Physics" title="Institute of Physics" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Institute of Physics</a>, stated that the paper "which was the subject of this morning's front page story of The Times, contained errors, in our view did not provide a significant advancement in the field, and therefore could not be published in the journal." They said that "The comments taken from the referee reports were taken out of context and therefore, in the interests of transparency, we have worked with the reviewers to make the full reports available", and put online the referee reports from mid March when the paper had been rejected. Later that day, Bengtsson issued a statement that "I do not believe there is any systematic 'cover-up' of scientific evidence on climate change or that academics' work is being 'deliberately suppressed', as the Times front page suggests. I am worried by a wider trend that science is gradually being influenced by political views".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Bengtsson#cite_note-fiona-5" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[5]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Global Warming Policy Foundation[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lennart_Bengtsson&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Global Warming Policy Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">edit</a>]</h2><div role="note" class="hatnote" style="font-weight: inherit; font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 22.4px;">See also: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming" title="Global warming" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">global warming</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_controversy" title="Global warming controversy" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">global warming controversy</a></div>On 30 April 2014, Bengtsson joined the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation" title="Global Warming Policy Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Global Warming Policy Foundation</a>, a climate change skeptics organization. On 14 May Bengtsson reversed this decision.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Bengtsson#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[7]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Bengtsson#cite_note-fiona-5" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[5]</a> In a press release published by the GWPF, he cited "an enormous group pressure" and said that "I see no limit and end to what will happen. It is a situation that reminds me about the time of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism" title="McCarthyism" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">McCarthy</a>. I would never have expecting anything similar in such an original peaceful community as meteorology. Apparently it has been transformed in recent years." and " I had not expecting such an enormous world-wide pressure put at me from a community that I have been close to all my active life".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Bengtsson#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[8]</a> Two days later <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">The Times</a> reported that "Scientists from around the world sent messages of support to Professor Bengtsson". <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Bengtsson#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[9]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">References[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lennart_Bengtsson&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">edit</a>]</h2><div class="reflist" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; 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e UK’s highest profile climate science denying group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), has quietly launched an American fundraising subsidiary.

As the <a target="_blank" href="https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/document-api-images-prod/docs/sR3w5DYCo5zT0NsOVQ4bYKzvKqgZpL8MH8IgYyuFeD0/application-pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=ASIAJGSMTHMZS6ZDO2PA&Expires=1462470588&Signature=B59xTFbx0%2F6yRYNTnpLWXgkv%2FY8%3D&x-amz-security-token=AQoDYXdzEHYa4APWzJX6RGsV%2BOBUQPJkIhL%2BpwFY0KYTTUq5LTobeL8bE9g0wISXcYqPv3QTEND4r0%2BOklzgV0j%2FHEjIZTJUuE3smQy%2Bn%2BL%2Fa1Enht57ZKuLHgG8CV01uWEqlHxAI0K9uAjblMFwamvmwtdpABlTUqC1yw6CyGJtQ52Hkj3U8deDpdjzR%2BBcWe33JDgPYeBKkyk5vKRIMZK67rBIAA8RVLh3K3mSawhIJAZJhhUVd4HpTK1I3delyhVba99iOD1IPnBgxifPn4N1JNVSSY1JiEc1kbKwAwDPuKJLXqg1hZ%2BGiiZsyfWheVydx9pEQ6%2B%2BgHIxBQVZSx7pvkfN3ttxDWAVgK2ELjwAUGkvh9Ee825r5Bov3u8yfArhBfQ5XM%2BEYrvRAU%2F7KmXEZv61qBHEjw07R8a9Bc2VXh%2Bnxi%2BgACA%2B6a9p57AQn00Q4QqwuwP%2FwywUIBSiYRjmtJIdZLxK498oISLLdvRH%2B12HvH6rZRRBZtsKYh3rsabviF6%2FXj9wHSlW0xmUpRr6NTE9W%2BjrdJyF06Rp6ZjfylTICZDazxmzyAcgeIo5rEeNJAhC9XrvGHhR%2FiVD1EgqvFjR4R0lSfLZj1Fm1TBXpuLUL05by1MNx169FpJhTX1mu8M0ge6fOzog%2FJCtuQU%3D">GWPF’s latest accounts</a> show, the think tank registered the American Friends of the GWPF in April 2015 so as to “enable supporters in the USA to enjoy tax relief on donations.”

This comes as donations to the GWPF dropped significantly last year from £377,979 ($547,219) in 2014 to £207,019 ($299,711) in 2015.

The group, headed by the former Thatcher Chancellor Lord Lawson, also

seems to have lost at least one or two staff members over the past

year.

The GWPF’s most recent <a target="_blank" href="https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/06962749/filing-history?page=1">Companies House</a> filing shows that the average number of staff dropped from four to three, with membership fees down more than £3,500 ($5,067).

So with numbers and donations dropping in the UK, it seems the GWPF is looking across the Atlantic for a boost in funding.

The American Friends of the GWPF <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bizapedia.com/de/THE-AMERICAN-FRIENDS-OF-THE-GWPF-INC.html">filed for registration</a> as a 501 c3 non-profit corporation in Delaware on 15 April, 2015 and has a P.O. Box in Gillette, New Jersey. The non-profit was granted its charitable status in October 2015.

Company <a target="blank" href="http://www.nonprofitstorm.com/the-american-friends-of-the-gwpf-inc_in_07933">details also show</a> that the subsidiary is represented by <a target="blank" href="https://www.lw.com/people/paul-tosetti">Los Angeles lawyer, Paul Tosetti</a>, who has handled several mega-mergers of large pharmaceutical companies.

Tosetti is the <a target="blank" href="http://catholiccharitiesla.org/wp-content/uploads/Current-Annual-Report.pdf">president of the Catholic Charities of Los Angeles</a> organisation, and graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford <a target="blank" href="http://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Floreat-2013.pdf">in 1977</a>.

Incidentally, Matt Ridley – member of the GWPF academic advisory board – began <a target="_blank" href="http://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/news/matt-ridley-and-martha-lane-fox-elevated-to-the-peerage/">studying at Magdalen College in 1976</a>.

The GWPF has long had strong ties to the Catholic community. Australian hedge fund manager and <a target="blank" href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/mar/27/tory-donor-climate-sceptic-thinktank">GWPF funder</a> Michael Hintze <a target="blank" href="http://www.valuewalk.com/2014/07/hintze-cqs-vatican/">was appointed to serve on the board of the Vatican Bank in 2014</a> and Australian Cardinal George Pell, who delivered the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2014/may/23/climate-mccarthyism-confected-outrage-checking-record-global-warming-policy-foundation">GWPF’s 2011 annual lecture</a>, recently criticised Pope Francis’s stance on climate change.

The climate science denial group is also known for courting hedge fund

managers, including the American stock broker David Herro who boasted of

supporting the GWPF last year <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0e2d8438-7777-11e5-933d-efcdc3c11c89.html#axzz47o9x2jhH">to the Financial Times</a>.

Herro has also <a target="_blank" href="http://www.desmog.uk/2016/01/15/republican-donor-stands-scandal-rocked-uk-climate-denial-charity-he-helped-fund">donated to the Heartland Institute and Cato Institute</a>.

DeSmog UK contact both the GWPF and Paul Tosetti for comment however neither responded in time for publication.

            
                
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Up today on DeSmog UK we report on the American expansion of the

London-based climate science denying Global Warming Policy Foundation.

As <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://desmogblog.cmail20.com/t/t-l-dhjihul-jdldtjdit-e/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">new company accounts show,</a>

the think tank has launched the American Friends of the GWPF in

Delaware in an effort to “enable supporters in the USA to enjoy tax

relief on donations.”

And earlier this week, new documents obtained by campaign group Art not Oil reveal <a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462548807471_2793" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://desmogblog.cmail20.com/t/t-l-dhjihul-jdldtjdit-s/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">BP's privileged access to policymakers</a> gained via its controversial arts sponsorships.

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                                    <p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462548807471_2778" class="yiv2671243882article-title" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px;" align="left"><a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462548807471_2777" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://desmogblog.cmail20.com/t/t-l-dhjihul-jdldtjdit-g/" style="text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="4">UK Climate Denial Think Tank Global Warming Policy Foundation Sets Up US Fundraising Arm</font></a></p><p style="font-weight: inherit;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">==<br /></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.desmog.uk/2016/02/23/gwpf-report-predicts-no-global-warming-ignoring-main-cause-global-warming" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://www.desmog.uk/2016/02/23/gwpf-report-predicts-no-global-warming-ignoring-main-cause-global-warming</a></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">What’s the easiest way to show the world isn’t warming? Simple:

ignore the rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from

burning fossil fuels.

This is what the latest non-peer reviewed report released by Lord Lawson’s climate science denying charity, the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/global-warming-policy-foundation">Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)</a>, has done.

The GWPF paid <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/sbe/staff/profiles/millsterence/mills-terence.html">Terence Mills</a>,

professor of applied statistics at Loughborough University, £3,000 to

write the report. In it, his statistical model finds that there will be

no increase in average global temperatures by the end of the century.

This is great news for the GWPF, which is touting the report as having “direct bearing on policy issues”.

There’s only one problem. The report does not take into account

assumptions about the rate of warming caused by rising emissions

(something which the IPCC climate change forecasts do).

And as climate experts and commentators quickly pointed out, the impact of CO2 on global temperatures is kind of important.

Yet more GWPF lolz. I can feel another <a target="blank" href="https://twitter.com/cwhope">@cwhope</a> “rise in global temps” bet looming… <a target="blank" href="https://t.co/YgpsxlD6bE">https://t.co/YgpsxlD6bE</a> <a target="_blank" href="https://t.co/bnhYefp65I">pic.twitter.com/bnhYefp65I</a>

— Leo Hickman (@LeoHickman) <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/LeoHickman/status/702048902141313025">February 23, 2016</a></blockquote>

The report was covered by newspapers <a target="blank" href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/environment/article4696832.ece">The Times </a>and <a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/planet-overheating-not-according-to-historical-records/news-story/24e5528644d043d1c6e0fb3682129dd1" target="blank">The Australian</a>, both owned by Rupert Murdoch, a climate science denier.

Speaking to DeSmog UK, <a target="blank" href="http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate-change/resources/hadleycentre">Bob Ward</a>, policy and communications director at the <a target="blank" href="http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/profile/bob-ward/">Grantham Research Institute</a> on

Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics,

said: “It’s an interesting academic exercise with very little value to

policy makers.”

“Statistical models are only valid if you assume that the underlying

factors are not going to change in the future,” Ward explained. “If the

underlying factors are changing, then your statistical model just simply

doesn’t work, and that’s widely recognised.”

He continued: “We know greenhouse gas concentrations are going up and

that’s a fundamental for temperature and that’s why statistical models

have very little skill in predicting the future, they’re not able to

take account of the fundamental physics. That’s why the climate models

are probably of more value to policy makers than this [report].”

CO2 and Temperatures

Put simply, what Mills does in the report is a statistical analysis of

past temperature data, and then extrapolates the findings into the

future.

In using this method, Mills told the Times: “It’s extremely difficult to isolate a relationship between temperatures and carbon dioxide emissions.”

And so, because it is not possible to find a statistical relationship between temperature and rising CO2

in the past under his method of analysis, then this means such a

relationship won’t be included in his forward-looking forecast for the

rest of the 21st century.

As the report itself explains: “In this report we focus on forecasting

models in general, and their application to climate data in particular,

while leaving aside the potentially interesting question of how such

models might or might not be reconciled with the physical theory

underpinning climate models.” 

Commenting on the report, climate professor Richard Betts of the

University of Exeter and head of Climate Impacts Research at the Met

Office Hadley Centre, told DeSmog UK: “The report written by Prof Terence Mills and published by the GWPF is very strange - it basically ignores physics completely, and indeed also contradicts previous work by the same author.

“Prof Mills has previously published peer-reviewed work which accepts

and indeed supports the fundamental concepts of the greenhouse effect

and warming caused by increased CO2, but oddly this report commissioned by the GWPF seems to throw all that away and assume (contrary to extensive well-established evidence) that increasing CO2 has no effect on temperature whatsoever.”

Comical, Confusing Conclusions

And sure enough, the report’s predictions were rendered null in one swift Tweet by Gavin Schmidt, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). (Last month, NASA GISS published data showing that 2015 was the hottest year on record.)

As Schmidt showed, 2015 average global temperatures were already hotter than what the report’s models predict for that year.
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<a target="blank" href="https://twitter.com/dougmcneall">@dougmcneall</a> <a target="blank" href="https://twitter.com/LeoHickman">@LeoHickman</a> <a target="blank" href="https://twitter.com/cwhope">@cwhope</a> And amusingly, current temps (to 12/2015) already outside predicted range… <a target="blank" href="https://t.co/Lhiag8jE44">pic.twitter.com/Lhiag8jE44</a>

— Gavin Schmidt (@ClimateOfGavin) <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/ClimateOfGavin/status/702061603362045952">February 23, 2016</a></blockquote>

The “forecast” in that <a target="blank" href="https://twitter.com/thetimes">@thetimes</a> article & GWPF report is already wrong! <a target="blank" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/schoolboyerror?src=hash">#schoolboyerror</a> h/t <a target="blank" href="https://twitter.com/ClimateOfGavin">@ClimateOfGavin</a> <a target="blank" href="https://t.co/hHj3W6wNpX">pic.twitter.com/hHj3W6wNpX</a>

— Richard Betts (@richardabetts) <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/richardabetts/status/702073627253018624">February 23, 2016</a></blockquote>

Many thanks to <a target="blank" href="https://twitter.com/thegwpfcom">@thegwpfcom</a> for providing genuine laughs today. <a target="blank" href="https://t.co/lsq6Xm0WAb">https://t.co/lsq6Xm0WAb</a>

— Doug McNeall (@dougmcneall) <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/dougmcneall/status/702063950628831232">February 23, 2016</a></blockquote>

In particular, Betts and Doug McNeall, climate experts at the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate-change/resources/hadleycentre">Met Office Hadley Centre</a> (a world leading centre for climate science research), found the report’s findings comical.

As Betts explained: “The proof of a new idea should be in whether it can

successfully make predictions, but bizarrely the report immediately

shoots itself in the foot here. It shows a retrospective 'forecast' of

global temperature for last year which looks very different to what

actually happened – the actual observed temperature was much warmer than

the upper end of Mills's 95 percent forecast interval.  However the

report did not make this comparison itself – in fact it failed to show

the actual observed temperature for 2015.

“Nevertheless, anybody who has even a slight familiarity with climate

science could spot this problem immediately, and indeed, a graph showing

the discrepancy was circulating on social media within minutes of the

report being released. The article in the Times included a

figure which clearly showed the problem with the 'forecast' if you

looked closely enough – but curiously there was no comment on this in

the article itself.”

GWPF Commission

For Ward however, his criticisms aren’t directed to Mills, but rather the GWPF “which claims these results are of significance to policy makers, which they’re simple not,” he said.

“I’m highly suspicious of the commissioning process that the GWPF went through,” Ward said, “it looks like yet another example of the GWPF trying to find evidence to fit is ideological aims.”

He continued: “It would be interesting to know if, when they approached

Professor Mills, they specified what the findings of his pamphlet should

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t two members of <a target="blank" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/nigel-lawson">Lord Lawson</a>’s climate change science denying <a target="blank" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/global-warming-policy-foundation">Global Warming Policy Foundation</a> (GWPF) did when they bet Chris Hope, a Cambridge University researcher, that 2015 wouldn’t be the hottest year ever recorded.

“You win some, you lose some,” <a target="blank" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/benny-peiser">Benny Peiser</a>, director of the GWPF, <a target="blank" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/climatechange-bets-idUSL8N1541LL">told Reuters</a>, adding that the pace of warming “is not something that people… need to be greatly concerned about”.

But new data released this week by meteorologists in the UK and US proved the GWPF wrong as <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-noaa-analyses-reveal-record-shattering-global-warm-temperatures-in-2015">2015 saw “record-shattering” global temperatures</a>.

Climate Bet

Five years ago British engineer Alan Rudge and Australian geologist Ian Plimer – both members of the GWPF academic advisory council – bet Hope £1,000 each that the Earth would be cooling by now, not warming.

Hope bet that average global temperatures in 2015 would be no more than 0.1°C cooler than in 2008.

Maybe Benny Peiser can let us know what pace of warming would be cause for concern? <a target="blank" href="https://twitter.com/thegwpfcom">@theGWPFcom</a> <a target="blank" href="https://t.co/r3a4X79IGW">https://t.co/r3a4X79IGW</a> via <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/Reuters">@Reuters</a>

— There's Physics (@theresphysics) <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/theresphysics/status/690083885087088644">January 21, 2016</a></blockquote>

As <a target="_blank" href="http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/archive/2016/2015-global-temperature">data released by the UK Met Office</a>

on 20 January revealed, the average global temperature in 2015 was

0.75°C higher than the long-term average between 1961 and 1990. The Met

Office <a target="_blank" href="http://www.desmog.uk/2015/12/28/just-how-hot-will-2016-be-uk-met-office-forecasts-record-breaking-global-temperatures">expects 2016 to beat this record</a>.

When compared with the pre-industrial period, the 2015 average global

temperature was around 1°C above the long-term average from 1850 to

1900 the Met Office said.

Temperature data from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) also showed that 2015 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern record keeping began in 1880.

Uncharted Territory

Experts agree the record-breaking 2015 temperature was the result of

the long-term warming trend caused mainly by the burning of fossil fuels

combined with a strong El Niño year.

Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard

Institute for Space Studies said: “2015 was remarkable even in the

context of the ongoing El Niño. Last year’s temperatures had an assist

from El Niño, but it is the cumulative effect of the long-term trend

that has resulted in the record warming that we are seeing.”

Professor Phil Jones, from the University of East Anglia's Climatic

Research Unit, said: “While there is a strong El Niño-elevated global

temperature this year, it is clear that human influence is driving our

climate into uncharted territory.”<a href="http://www.desmog.uk/2016/01/06/climate-denying-gwpf-academic-chairman-ross-mckitrick-resigns" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://www.desmog.uk/2016/01/06/climate-denying-gwpf-academic-chairman-ross-mckitrick-resigns</a>Climate denier <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ross-mckitrick" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Professor Ross McKitrick</a> has resigned as chairman of the academic advisory council of <a href="http://www.desmog.uk/2015/12/10/lawson-stands-academic-happer-latest-oil-funded-denial-scandal" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Lord Lawson’s Global Warming Policy Foundation</a> (GWPF), according to <a href="http://www.thegwpf.org/new-chairman-of-gwpf-academic-advisory-council-2/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">a statement</a> released by the charity.The <a href="https://www.fraserinstitute.org/content/prof-ross-mckitrick" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">senior fellow</a> of the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/fraser-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">ExxonMobil- and Koch-funded Fraser Institute</a> in Canada told DeSmog UK he had informed Lord Lawson at the GWPF in September that he intended to stand down citing increased work commitments.The academic confirmed his stepping down had nothing to do with the <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/media/press-releases/exposed-academics-hire-agree-not-disclose-fossil-fuel-funding-20151208" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">high-profile investigative sting by Greenpeace</a> last month which raised serious concerns about the council’s claims to conduct peer reviews of its publications.McKitrick said: “I decided [to step down] late last summer, because of other commitments I had. And so, I notified them at the beginning of September that I would be leaving at the end of December.”Asked about the GWPF's peer review claims, he said: “I am confident the process was as described and I don’t have any further comment to make to you other than what was released before Christmas.”Hockey StickMcKitrick is something of a hero in climate denial circles for recruiting <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/steve-mcintyre" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Steve McIntyre</a> to the cause and collaborating on a decade-long attack on Professor Michael Mann and the hockey stick graph, which climaxed with the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/climatgate-autopsy" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Climategate hacking</a>.DeSmog UK emailed the GWPF on 8 December, 2015, hours after Greenpeace published its agenda-setting investigation.We asked then whether McKitrick would be asked to resign in light of the charity’s academic publications apparently being sold out to an oil and gas man.Dr Benny Peiser, the former part-time sports anthologist and director of the GWPF, said then: “I’m afraid Greenpeace has got it wrong.”Peer ReviewAn undercover investigator from Greenpeace called and exchanged emails with Professor Will Happer - a member of theGWPF advisory council - posing as a Middle East oil and gas company representative.During the exchange, Happer discussed producing a report praising CO2 that which would then be passed through theGWPF’s “peer review” process.He explained this was significantly easier than trying to publish in a journal. He also asked that any fee be paid to another climate denial charity.The scandal made the front page in Britain and France during the COP21 climate conference in Paris. The Charity Commission has confirmed it will consider the Greenpeace evidence as part of an ongoing inquiry into the GWPF.Adam Levy, from the respected Nature journal, told openDemocracy a report described as peer reviewed by the GWPF had not gone through the process in any meaningful way“The review process received by this paper is not what would generally be described as peer–review. I have not encountered other instances of similar publications being <a href="http://www.desmog.uk/2016/01/04/times-continues-mislead-its-readers-about-climate-change-denial-science" target="blank" style="line-height: 18.59px; text-decoration: none;">cited as peer–reviewed</a> in either academia, or science journalism,” he said.The resignation comes almost exactly a year after <a href="http://www.thegwpf.org/new-chairman-of-gwpf-academic-advisory-council/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">McKitrick took up the post</a>, replacing David Henderson who also stood down at his own request.Professor <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/christopher-essex" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Christopher Essex</a>, a longtime collaborator, will take over. Lord Lawson and Dr Benny Peiser were contacted byDeSmog UK but have not yet responded with a comment.<a href="http://www.thegwpf.org/new-chairman-of-gwpf-academic-advisory-council-2/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Lawson said</a> in a press release: “I am most grateful to Ross, whose work over the past year has been outstanding. He will be a hard act to follow, but I am confident that Chris is the man to do it.”<a href="http://www.desmog.uk/2016/01/08/uk-transparency-watchdog-orders-charity-commission-reconsider-releasing-gwpf-investigation-files" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://www.desmog.uk/2016/01/08/uk-transparency-watchdog-orders-charity-commission-reconsider-releasing-gwpf-investigation-files</a><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="font-weight: inherit; min-height: 280px; line-height: 18.59px;"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Lord Lawson faces further embarrassment concerning his climate denial Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), as theUK transparency watchdog has ruled that the Charity Commission must reconsider releasing files from a 2014 investigation.Two years ago the Charity Commission conducted an investigation into the GWPF following complaints from the public that the charity was engaging in politics - this led to Lawson setting up the sister organisation: the Global Warming Policy Forum.DeSmog UK commissioned a freedom of information request to the Charity Commission to force the release of the investigation files, so that the public could better judge whether the former chancellor had used the GWPF for non-charitable ends.The Charity Commission originally refused the appeal on the grounds that it, along with a series of other requests, was vexatious – intended to cause disruption or annoyance. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has now ruled against the Commission and demanded it consider releasing the documents. This comes at the same time as <a href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/politics/article4658623.ece" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">ministers announced plans on January 7</a> to extend freedom of information laws to cover charities. Currently, charities are exempt from the information laws despite the fact that many receive tens of millions of pounds in grants funded by the taxpayer.While the GWPF is funded by private donations, if the law is expanded this could see the charity face heightened scrutiny over its activities with the public able to submit freedom of information requests to the charity directly.Murky InteractionsBob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, was among those to complain <a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/climate-change-sceptics-breached-charity-rules/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">about the GWPF’s activities</a>He told DeSmog UK: “There has been a lot of murkiness about the Charity Commission’s interactions with the GWPF in relation to its multiple breaches of charity rules by promoting inaccurate and misleading information.“The foundation has continued to break charity rules even after it created a new lobbying arm, the Global Warming Policy Forum, to circumvent them.“It is time for the Commission to come clean about its dealings with Lord Lawson and the other trustees of the foundation so that the public can have confidence that charity rules are being upheld.”The ICO's decision comes less than a month after <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/12/08/leading-climate-science-denial-groups-offer-hide-fossil-fuel-funding-greenpeace-investigation-finds" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Greenpeace revealed</a> significant flaws in the <a href="http://www.desmog.uk/2015/12/11/matt-ridley-caught-dollars-denial-scandal" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">GWPF’s peer review process</a> as one of its academic advisors agreed to write a report extolling the benefits of carbon dioxide on behalf of a fictitious oil company.These revelations have since been <a href="http://www.desmog.uk/2015/12/08/lord-lawson-faces-investigation-after-charity-advisor-accepts-cash-coal-company" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">incorporated into Charity Commission’s current investigation into the GWPF</a>.Charity StatusFollowing complaints from members of the public and a thoroughgoing investigation ending in the summer of 2014, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28321641" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">the Charity Commission forced the GWPF to split</a> into separate charitable and campaigning arms. The freedom of information request was made shortly after by Request Initiative on behalf of DeSmog UK.<hr style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 1.5em 0px;" />What did the ICO decide?<ul style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li style="line-height: 17.6px;">The Charity Commission argued that the requests had “limited value and purpose”. DeSmog UK explained that the request was made as part of an investigation into the activities of the GWPF in relation to climate change denial. The ICOdoes not agree with the Charity Commission that the request in this case has limited purpose or value.</li><li style="line-height: 17.6px;">The Charity Commission tried to get out of releasing the GWPF investigation file on the basis that it was already overburdened by freedom of information requests about the charity. The Information Commissioner “does not consider that the complainant can be said to have made a significant amount of requests…this averages out at less than four requests per year.”</li><li style="line-height: 17.6px;">The Charity Commission said that dealing with the requests placed a significant burden upon it, but it failed to elaborate or provide detail on the time and cost implications of completing this work. Based on this, the ICO was “not persuaded that responding to the request would have imposed a significant burden, even when considered in the context of the earlier requests.”</li></ul><hr style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 1.5em 0px;" />As Request Initiative argued: “The Global Warming Policy Foundation has been described as ‘the UK’s most prominent source of climate change denial.’“Their mission itself still states that its aims are to critique policy and that the GWPF has ‘opened the debate on climate policies among opinion formers and MPs’.“We also know that the GWPF has been one of the most complained about charities over the last few years.“The Charity Commission after investigating the GWPF found that the charity had in fact ‘blurred fact and comment’ and was failing as a charitable organisation in that the main purpose of the foundation was political, not charitable.“There is a huge public interest in both knowing how the Charity Commission itself functions in response to complaints against charities and also to understand how the GWPF may have influenced politicians and policy whilst benefiting from being a charity.”New ResponseDespite this argument, in May 2015 the Charity Commission refused to release any documents on the grounds that the request was “vexatious”.However, the ICO has now ruled – after a six-month decision period – that this refusal was incorrect.Brendan Montague, editor of DeSmog UK, said: “The Charity Commission finds itself in a very difficult position.“It is stuck between the rock of Lawson and his expensive lawyers and the hard place of dealing with dogged campaigners acting in the public interest to ensure charities are not just PR fronts for vested interests. I don’t envy them.”The Charity Commission now has 35 days to issue a new response to the original freedom of information request. </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-14 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above" style="font-weight: inherit; padding-top: 1.5em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 1.5em; line-height: 18.59px;"><div class="field-label" style="text-transform: uppercase; display: inline;">TAGS: </div><div class="field-items" style="display: inline;"><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.desmog.uk/directory/vocabulary/7558">Lord Lawson</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.desmog.uk/directory/vocabulary/4670">Nigel Lawson</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.desmog.uk/directory/vocabulary/6314">GWPF</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.desmog.uk/directory/vocabulary/4768">global warming policy foundation</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.desmog.uk/directory/vocabulary/22558">charity commission</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.desmog.uk/directory/vocabulary/7998">Freedom of Information</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.desmog.uk/directory/vocabulary/5116">Bob Ward</a></div></div></div><div id="whatsnext" style="font-weight: inherit; float: none; width: 826px; line-height: 18.59px;"><ul class="links inline" style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; float: none;"><li class="blog_usernames_blog first last" style="display: inline; list-style-type: none; padding: 0px 1em 0px 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmog.uk/blog/kyla-mandel" title="Read Kyla Mandel's latest blog entries." style="text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kyla Mandel's blog</a></li></ul></div>
<div class="body" style="font-weight: inherit;">At his 2009 keynote address at the <a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2009/03/09/heartland-global-warming-conference-2009/">International Conference of Climate Change</a> (a.k.a. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brendan-demelle/denial-a-palooza-4-annual_b_575414.html">Denial-a-Palooza</a>), he maintained that environmental activists don’t necessarily care about temperature, or carbon dioxide, rather they care about rent seeking and political profit.  In an increasingly familiar trope, he argued that the climate change movement has become popularized because it gives politicians an excuse to exert more control over society. Klaus delivered a keynote speech at last week's<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation"> Global Warming Policy Foundation</a> Inaugural Annual Lecture in London.  According to his address, "Global warming in the last 150 years was modest and future warming and its consequences will not be dangerous or catastrophic.  It doesn't look like a threat we should respond to," he said. He argued that the empirical evidence of anthropogenic climate change is riddled with mistakes in methodology and modelling, and suggested out of hand that we have entered a period of global cooling.  Klaus openly denounced credible scientific institutions including the <a href="http://royalsociety.org/">UK's Royal Society</a> that released<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/calgary-herald-uses-royal-society-report-soapbox-preach-climate-change-denial"> a recent report </a>explaining the science of climate change in layman's terms, in response to confusion campaigns attacking the overwhelming <a href="http://climateprogress.org/2010/06/21/pnas-study-climate-science-media-balance-deniers/">scientific consensus</a>.  In Klaus' words, "I am not impressed by heavily biased British scientific institutions".Maybe he was just offended that they didn't invite him to speak and he instead had to speak at the GWPF?  The main takeaway from his address was that the threat of climate change is akin to the threat of communism.  In the closing of his op-ed piece, he uses the <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/node/9555">eerily familiar anti-Big Government</a> vs. environment argument in stating that, "Our interest is, or should be, a free, democratic and prosperous society.  That is the reason why we have to stand up against all attempts to undermine it.  We should be prepared to adapt to all kinds of future climate changes (including cooling), but we should never accept losing our freedom."Sounds <a href="http://www.freedomworks.org/">familiar</a>. No wonder these right-wing think tanks like him so much.  Financial Post readers, upon first glance, might assume that the Global Warming Policy Foundation is a credible climate organization, but <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation">Sourcewatch</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation">'s</a> digging has revealed that the GWPF is a registered UK 'charity' with links to right-wing libertarian climate change deniers.  According to the <a href="http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/SHOWCHARITY/RegisterOfCharities/CharityFramework.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1131448&SubsidiaryNumber=0">Charity Commission</a>, the GWPF's mandate is to "advance the public understanding of global warming and of its possible consequences, and also of the measures taken or proposed to be taken in response to it".  

It looks like they're more interested in sowing seeds of doubt than in disseminating knowledge.  GWPF's director is none other than the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute">Heartland Institute</a>'s <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Benny_Peiser">Benny Peiser</a>, climate change denier extraordinaire. Other members include Canada's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ross_McKitrick">Ross McKitrick</a> of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fraser_Institute">Fraser Institute</a>.   If the Financial Post had bothered to check up on Klaus' credentials (or lack thereof) on issues of climate, or looked into the shadowy UK "charity" funding the whole enterprise, they might have realized that the credentials of both on issues of climate are lacking.  When will the Financial Post stop giving credence to climate change deniers and show some journalistic integrity?</div><div class="tags" style="font-weight: inherit;">Tags: <a href="http://environmental-sustainability.soup.io/tag/astroturf">astroturf</a> <a href="http://environmental-sustainability.soup.io/tag/Benny%20Peiser">Benny Peiser</a> <a href="http://environmental-sustainability.soup.io/tag/climate%20change%20denier">climate change denier</a> <a href="http://environmental-sustainability.soup.io/tag/Desmogger">Desmogger</a> <a href="http://environmental-sustainability.soup.io/tag/Emma%20Pullman">Emma Pullman</a> <a href="http://environmental-sustainability.soup.io/tag/financial%20post">financial post</a> <a href="http://environmental-sustainability.soup.io/tag/global%20warming%20policy%20foundation">global warming policy foundation</a> <a href="http://environmental-sustainability.soup.io/tag/Heartland%20Institute">Heartland Institute</a> <a href="http://environmental-sustainability.soup.io/tag/heritage%20foundation">heritage foundation</a> <a href="http://environmental-sustainability.soup.io/tag/National%20Post">National Post</a> <a href="http://environmental-sustainability.soup.io/tag/ross%20mckitrick">ross mckitrick</a> <a href="http://environmental-sustainability.soup.io/tag/Vaclav%20Klaus">Vaclav Klaus</a></div>Monckton’s Denial
So how exactly did it come to be that Lord Monckton should become the spokesperson for the more eclectic climate deniers – flown around the world by ExxonMobil-funded think tanks like the ominous sounding Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow [14] (CFACT) – to attack scientists?
This is how Monckton himself takes up the story: “Well, I didn’t decide. It was all accidentally; I was rung up by the chief executive of a boutique finance house.”
According to Monckton, the mystery chief executive said: “Look, all our investors want to pile in on this green investment stuff but I want to know: is there a problem with the climate?”
Monckton replied: “Oh yes, I advised Margaret Thatcher on it 25 years ago and it was quite clear then that the scientists were worried and I recommended to find out more.”
CEO: “[We] would like you to find out more.”
Monckton “spent a month on his dime” investigating the science and sent the investor a 40-page report. It concluded that climate change did not represent a serious threat.
The man called a few days later and demanded: “Why should I pay any attention to this?”
Monckton: “Well, you asked me to do this, I gave it my best shot, you’ve got all my evidence there.”
CEO: “I’ve consulted a dozen people, all of them more eminent than you…”
Monckton: “Well, thank you very much.”
CEO: “And they all tell me that this is a real problem, this is the worst problem humanity has ever faced and we have to do everything we can to stop this and you’ve said: ‘no problem at all’.”
Monckton: ‘Well I don’t say there is no problem at all, I say it’s not likely that there is much of a problem and even if it were it would be cheaper to let it happen.”
CEO: “Well, we are going to go with you and not the other 11.”
Monckton: “Why is that?”
CEO: “You’re the only one who provided any evidence, and you’ve provided 40 pages of it. The others all told me that I had to believe: I didn’t get where I am today by believing stuff.”
Generous Financier
Monckton has always refused to give up the name of the financier who paid him generously to investigate climate science who and set him on the path of attacking scientists in talks in the United States and Australia ever since.
However, an investigation by DeSmog UK has established that the mystery man is Edgar Miller, a right-wing American who claims to have significant influence in the Conservative Party and who boasts of having made a fortune from early investments in shale gas development [15].
Miller was born in Bailey County, Texas [16], but moved to Britain almost 40 years ago. He is a serial investor and entrepreneur, having directed companies with names like Palladian Software Limited, Maxwell Espinosa and UK Israel Business.
The climate denier is a political animal, claiming to have met Margaret Thatcher “on several occasions.” He is also close to Peter Lilley MP and Andrew Tyrie – the unsung hero of Tory climate denial.
“I used to be more connected to the Conservative Party. I used to work up in there with policy but I quickly learnt that it’s a mug’s game because most politicians are not interested in anyone’s help,” he told a female journalist over dinner.
Moderately Wealthy
“When you are talking to these people, they are either so ignorant that they didn’t understand what you were saying or they were just so ego driven, or both, that they figured they know all the answers.”
Miller is moderately wealthy, having bought a London townhouse in Notting Hill for £725,000 in 2000. He used to drive an E-Type Jag until he had an accident, apparently attempting to impress a female passenger.
Miller will become significant again in our history of climate denial – supporting Lord Lawson at the Global Warming Policy Foundation and speaking candidly about his falling out with the new Conservative leadership.desmog 9/14Neil Record, a former Bank of England economist turned currency trader, and Conservative peer Lord Nigel Vinson have contributed financially to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), which has become the most outspoken climate sceptic voice in Britain.Both the foundation and Lord Lawson have consistently declined to reveal the sources of its funding since its launch in 2009 beyond stating that its financing comes from private individuals and charitable trusts, none of which they insist have links to energy companies==

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The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) is a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">United Kingdom</a> group opposing action to mitigate climate change. Founded by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nigel_Lawson" title="Nigel Lawson" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Nigel Lawson</a>,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_note-guard-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[1]</a> it is a registered educational charity "deeply concerned about the costs and other implications of many of the policies currently being advocated" to mitigate global warming.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[2]</a>

Although founder Lawson claims to accept that anthropogenic global warming is occurring, this acceptance appears to be "considerably less than half-hearted;"<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[3]</a> the GWPF webpage banner image sports a short-term (2001-2010) temperature graph (blue, below) giving the appearance that the world is not warming.

Compare the 10-year GWPF graph (blue) to the longer-term graphs to the right: 1979-2010 showing the true global warming signal<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[4]</a> (with natural variability removed) and 1880-2010 (including natural variability).

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[<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">hide</a>] </div>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#Start_Up" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1 Start Up</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#Funding_not_transparent.3B_just_1.6.25_comes_from_memberships" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2 Funding not transparent; just 1.6% comes from memberships</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#Charitable_Status" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">3 Charitable Status</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#Actions" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">4 Actions</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#CRU_email_theft-call_for_enquiry" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">4.1 CRU email theft - call for enquiry</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#After_3_govt_enquiries_cleared_climate_scientists.2C_a_denialist_.22enquiry.22_by_skeptic_Montford" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">4.2 After 3 govt enquiries cleared climate scientists, a denialist "enquiry" by skeptic Montford</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#.22900_papers.22_claim.3B_subsequent_analysis_shows_Exxon_ties.2C_Energy_and_Environment_papers" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">4.3 "900 papers" claim; subsequent analysis shows Exxon ties, Energy and Environment papers</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#Location" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">5 Location</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#Personnel" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">6 Personnel</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#Director" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">6.1 Director</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#Board_of_Trustees" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">6.2 Board of Trustees</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#Academic_Advisory_Council" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">6.3 Academic Advisory Council</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#Others_involved" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">7 Others involved</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#Articles_and_resources" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">8 Articles and resources</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#References" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">8.1 References</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#Related_SourceWatch_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">8.2 Related SourceWatch articles</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#External_resources" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">8.3 External resources</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#External_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">8.4 External articles</a></li>

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The GWPF was founded, curiously, at the same time as the climategate emails were released on the University of Tomsk's server. At the time of its foundation the average age of its trustees was 74. Chairman <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nigel_Lawson" title="Nigel Lawson" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Nigel Lawson</a> stated "We will certainly be actively involved in monitoring what is being said, in correcting errors where the are errors. The only thing we will not be actively engaged in is what are the causes of the temperature changes on the planet: how much is CO2, how much is solar radiation, how much is cosmic rays. We won't be getting into all that."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[5]</a>

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The Global Warming Policy Foundation does not reveal where its funding comes from.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[6]</a> In their first years accounts they say "the soil we till is highly controversial, and anyone who puts their head above the parapet has to be prepared to endure a degree of public vilification. For that reason we offer all our donors the protection of anonymity".<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[7]</a> The accounts show the extent to which the secretive Foundation is funded by anonymous donors, compared with income from membership fees. Its total income for the period up to 31 July 2010 was £503,302, of which only £8,168 (or 1.6%) came from membership contributions. The foundation charges a minimum annual membership fee of £100.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[8]</a>

In 2012, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Guardian" title="Guardian" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Guardian</a> exposed Lawson's links to coal-fired power companies in Europe.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[9]</a>

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The GWPF is a registered charity (Number 1131448), which gives it certain tax advantages. Its charitable objectives are stated as: "To advance the public understanding of global warming and of its possible consequences, and also of the measures taken or proposed to be taken in response to it, including by means of the dissemination of the results of the study of and research into (a) the sciences relevant to global warming (b) its impact upon the environment economies and society (c) and the above mentioned measures."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[10]</a>

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In an op-ed announcing the GWPF launch and hopefully predicting failure of the December 2009 United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen, Nigel Lawson called for a high-level independent inquiry into the content of the emails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[11]</a>

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When the three British Government enquiries into the CRU email saga were completed Dr <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Benny_Peiser" title="Benny Peiser" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Benny Peiser</a> of the Global Warming Policy Foundation immediately announced it would to stir the issue up once more.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[12]</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Andrew_Montford" title="Andrew Montford" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Andrew Montford</a> was commissioned to write an "enquiry" into the climategate emails claims and was paid £3000 for his efforts. The results were released in September 2010.

The choice of Montford was ironic given the serious inaccuracies in his book, The Hockey Stick Illusion.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[13]</a> Furthermore the Global Warming Policy Foundation's own funding is mired in controversy whilst it enjoys charitable status, yet Montford himself is critical of what he calls 'fake charities'.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[14]</a> In his "enquiry" Montford criticized the official enquiries for not including known skeptics on their panels. This is a distortion of the truth however, since the Parliamentary Enquiry at the least included <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Graham_Stringer" title="Graham Stringer" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Graham Stringer</a> Labour MP for Blackley and Broughton, a man who has consistently voted very strongly against laws to stop climate change.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[15]</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[16]</a> Montford knows this and records a cosy chat with Stringer on his blog.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[17]</a>

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In mid-April 2011, the GWPF provided "900+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticism Of "Man-Made" Global Warming (AGW) Alarm".<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[18]</a> The blog Carbon Brief analyzed them, and found that -

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">9 of the top 10 authors had ties to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ExxonMobil" title="ExxonMobil" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">ExxonMobil</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"prominent scientists featured on the list didn't agree that their work supported skepticism about anthropogenic global warming - and had unsuccessfully asked for their work to be removed from similar lists in the past", and</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">the most-cited journal was <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Energy_and_Environment" title="Energy and Environment" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Energy and Environment</a>, a journal with a very low impact factor whose editors are AGW deniers.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_note-cbrief-19" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[19]</a></li>

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The GWPF is located at 1 Carlton House Terrace, London, in a room rented from the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Institute_of_Materials,_Minerals_and_Mining&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_note-guard-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[1]</a>

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In November 2009, the GWPF listed:

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Benny_Peiser" title="Benny Peiser" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Benny Peiser</a>, Director; a social anthropologist.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[20]</a></li>

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The Board of Trustees includes:<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[21]</a>

<li style="font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lord_Barnett" title="Lord Barnett" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lord Barnett</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Peter_R._Forster" title="Peter R. Forster" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Peter R. Forster</a> (the Bishop of Chester)</li>

<li style="font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lord_Donoughue" title="Lord Donoughue" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lord Donoughue</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lord_Fellowes" title="Lord Fellowes" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lord Fellowes</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Martin_Jacomb" title="Martin Jacomb" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Martin Jacomb</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lord_Lawson" title="Lord Lawson" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Lord Lawson</a> (Chairman)</li>

<li style="font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Henri_Lepage&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Henri Lepage (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Henri Lepage</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Baroness_Nicholson" title="Baroness Nicholson" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Baroness Nicholson</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lord_Andrew_Turnbull&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lord Andrew Turnbull (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lord Andrew Turnbull</a></li>

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Academic Advisory Council members need not hold academic positions, Benny Peiser reports.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[22]</a>

As of February 2013, members are: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[23]</a>,

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Adrian_Berry&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Adrian Berry (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Adrian Berry</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Viscount_Camrose&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Viscount Camrose (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Viscount Camrose</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Samuel_Brittan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Samuel Brittan (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Samuel Brittan</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ian_Byatt" title="Ian Byatt" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ian Byatt</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bob_Carter" title="Bob Carter" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bob Carter</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Vincent_Courtillot" title="Vincent Courtillot" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Vincent Courtillot</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Freeman_Dyson" title="Freeman Dyson" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Freeman Dyson</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Christian_Gerondeau&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Christian Gerondeau (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Christian Gerondeau</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Indur_Goklany" title="Indur Goklany" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Indur Goklany</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/William_Happer" title="William Happer" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">William Happer</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Henderson_(economist)" title="David Henderson (economist)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">David Henderson</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Terence_Kealey&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Terence Kealey (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Terence Kealey</a> (<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Buckingham_University" title="Buckingham University" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Buckingham University</a>)</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Anthony_Kelly_(GWPF)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anthony Kelly (GWPF) (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Anthony Kelly (GWPF)</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Deepak_Lal" title="Deepak Lal" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Deepak Lal</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_Lindzen" title="Richard Lindzen" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Richard Lindzen</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ross_McKitrick" title="Ross McKitrick" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ross McKitrick</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_Mendelsohn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert Mendelsohn (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Robert Mendelsohn</a>, economics professor at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Yale_University" title="Yale University" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Yale University</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alan_Peacock" title="Alan Peacock" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Alan Peacock</a> (<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Buckingham_University" title="Buckingham University" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Buckingham University</a>)</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ian_Plimer" title="Ian Plimer" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ian Plimer</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_Reiter" title="Paul Reiter" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Paul Reiter</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Matt_Ridley" title="Matt Ridley" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Matt Ridley</a>, writer (<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Buckingham_University" title="Buckingham University" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Buckingham University</a> Honourary Degree, 2003)</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Rudge&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alan Rudge (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Alan Rudge</a>, electrical engineer</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_Tol" title="Richard Tol" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Richard Tol</a></li>

</ul>

Former members include:

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Hal_Lewis" title="Hal Lewis" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Hal Lewis</a> (d. May 26, 2011<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_note-ucsb-24" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[24]</a>)</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Gwyn_Prins" title="Gwyn Prins" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gwyn Prins</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=B_P_Radhakrishna&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="B P Radhakrishna (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">B P Radhakrishna</a></li>

</ul>

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The following persons have written reports published by the GWPF, or given lectures sponsored by the GWPF, but are not otherwise part of the group's formal structure.

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Phillip_Mueller&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Phillip Mueller (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Phillip Mueller</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gordon_Hughes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gordon Hughes (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gordon Hughes</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Peter_Lilley" title="Peter Lilley" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Peter Lilley</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fritz_Varenholt&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fritz Varenholt (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fritz Varenholt</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Andrew_Montford" title="Andrew Montford" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Andrew Montford</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Christopher_Booker" title="Christopher Booker" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Christopher Booker</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cardinal_George_Pell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cardinal George Pell (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cardinal George Pell</a></li>

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<h3 style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">References</h3>

<li id="cite_note-guard-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_ref-guard_1-0" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:1.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_ref-guard_1-1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">1.1</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/24/voices-of-climate-change-denial" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">The voices of climate change sceptics</a>. guardian.co.uk. Retrieved on 2009-11-24.</li>

<li id="cite_note-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thegwpf.org/news/136-launched-today.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Launched today!</a>. www.thegwpf.org. Retrieved on 2009-11-24.</li>

<li id="cite_note-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article6928868.ece" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Strip away the figleaf and reveal naysayers</a>. timesonline.co.uk. Retrieved on 2009-11-24.</li>

<li id="cite_note-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Foster & Rahmstorf graph via ThinkProgress, <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/12/13/388527/deniers-study-true-global-warming-signal-rate-of-manmade-warming/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">[1]</a>, by Joe Romm, dated 2011-12-13, accessed 2011-12-18</li>

<li id="cite_note-9" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_ref-9" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Carrington, Damian. "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2012/mar/06/climate-change-sceptic-lawson-coal?newsfeed=true" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Lord Lawson's links to Europe's colossal coal polluter | guardian.co.uk</a>", <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">The Guardian</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=London,_England&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="London, England (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">London</a>: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Guardian_Media_Group" title="Guardian Media Group" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">GMG</a>. Retrieved on March 8, 2012.</li>

<li id="cite_note-11" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_ref-11" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Nigel Lawson, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/law/columnists/article2049558.ece" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Copenhagen will fail – and quite right too"</a>, Times Online, November 23, 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-18" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_ref-18" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thegwpf.org/science-news/2816-900-peer-reviewed-papers-supporting-skepticism-of-qman-madeq-global-warming-agw-alarm.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">900+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticism Of "Man-Made" Global Warming (AGW) Alarm</a>. GWPF (2011-04-14). Retrieved on 2011-11-03.</li>

<li id="cite_note-cbrief-19" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_ref-cbrief_19-0" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2011/04/energy-and-environment-900-papers" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Energy and Environment – “journal of choice for climate skeptics”</a>. Carbon Brief (2011-04-21). Retrieved on 2011-11-03. “We reported last week that nine out of the top 10 authors listed by the GWPF were linked to ExxonMobil. We also discovered that prominent scientists featured on the list didn't agree that their work supported skepticism about anthropogenic global warming - and had unsuccessfully asked for their work to be removed from similar lists in the past. We used the same data analysis tools to examine where the papers on the list were published. The most cited journal by a clear margin was Energy and Environment, which provided 131 papers to the list - almost 15 percent of the total. Energy and Environment's editor Sonja-Boehmer Christiansen has said that she is "following [her] political agenda" in editing the journal, which is co-edited by Benny Peiser, director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. Christiansen noted in evidence submitted to the UK Parliament that E&E has been characterised as " a journal of choice for climate skeptics," also stating: "If this [is] so, it happened by default as other publication opportunities were closed to them…"”</li>

<li id="cite_note-20" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_ref-20" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thegwpf.org/director.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Dr Benny Peiser</a>. www.thegwpf.org. Retrieved on 2009-11-24.</li>

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<li id="cite_note-23" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_ref-23" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thegwpf.org/who-we-are/academic-advisory-council" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Academic Advisory Council</a>. www.thegwpf.org. Retrieved on 2011-12-16.</li>

<li id="cite_note-ucsb-24" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation#cite_ref-ucsb_24-0" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> <cite style=" font-style: normal; word-wrap: break-word;">University of California, Santa Barbara (June 2011). "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/93106/2011/June/notes.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Campus Notes 93106</a>" 21 (8). Retrieved on 9 June 2011.</cite></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thegwpf.org/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns:data="data">The GWPF website</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">GWPF <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Profile on PowerBase</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Carbon Brief profile <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.carbonbrief.org/profiles/global-warming-policy-foundation" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">[13]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends48%5C0001131448_AC_20100731_E_C.PDF" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcaqaaaanowc2aaaatkleqvr4xmxkqqqamawf0x="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X" xssz9cskiyiifrfcjmmihmigbb5fqdcaqj4j46pzyluwe="XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe" cxz6ovbhts0sry2njp="cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp" xxxxzolu6euwaopx1vnwtbe6qqaaaaaelftksuqmcc="XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">GWPF financial statement</a> for UK Charities Commission, dated 2011-07-31</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/PrintReport.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1131448&ReportType=COLOUR" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Charity Overview</a> for the UK Charities Commission, accessed 11 December 2011</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/mar/09/global-warming-policy-foundation-job-advert/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns:data="data">GWPF calls for transparency but refuses to make public its donors</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Lawson and the think-tank bent on hijacking global warming debate <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/lawson-and-the-thinktank-bent-on-hijacking-global-warming-debate-1833142.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/lawson-and-the-thinktank-bent-on-hijacking-global-warming-debate-1833142.html</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Global Warming Policy Foundation promotes shale gas on the BBC<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2011/10/benny-peiser-interview-about-shale-gas" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">[14]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Bob Ward, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/oct/21/lord-lawson-global-warming-errors" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Lord Lawson's Global Warming Policy Foundation is spreading errors</a>, The Guardian, 21 October 2011.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">DeSmogBlog, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/lord-lawson-s-global-warming-policy-foundation-mistaken-actual-facts" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Lord Lawson's Global Warming Policy Foundation Mistaken On Actual Facts</a></li>

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