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Complaint to Ofcom Regarding “The Great Global Warming Swindle”

Appendix C: Backgrounds of the Contributors to the Programme

He is best known for his absolutist view that foreign aid always accelerates, rather than alleviates, poverty (see IREN: http://tinyurl.com/2dsyd3, BBC News: http://tinyurl.com/2m7ga3 and The New York Times: http://tinyurl.com/35qu8k). As a libertarian (see Wikipedia: http://tinyurl.com/2t9on5), he also opposes and lobbies against any regulation of business. This fact provides a context for the vehement opposition to the Kyoto treaty that he expressed in the Channel 4 programme. This bias should have been made clear to the viewer and was not.

His academic credentials were thus greatly inflated by the Channel 4 programme, and his known biases were not mentioned, in contravention of Ofcom clauses 5.7 and 5.8.

C.3.1 Links to Corporate-funded Lobby Groups

Mr Shikwati is Director of the Inter Region Economic Network or IREN (see http://www.irenkenya.com, and the IREN entry on page 152).

C.4 Paul Driessen

Paul Driessen was described in the programme as a former environmental campaigner; however, his activities as an energy industry lobbyist were not disclosed – see: http://tinyurl.com/33rqlk and http://tinyurl.com/36gb9n, and see below. His strongly negative views regarding the environmental movement are set out in detail in his book “Eco-Imperialism: Green Power Black Death” (see http://tinyurl.com/3yaao2).

C.4.1 Funding and Links to Corporate-funded Lobby Groups

(For information about the following organisations and the funding they receive, see Appendix D: Corporate-funded Organisations Linked to Contributors to the Programme).

1.	He is a Senior Fellow with the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise (see www.cdfe.org/EHRP.htm).
2.	He is Senior Fellow with the Atlas Economic Research Foundation (see www.cdfe.org/Paul.htm).
3.	He is a Senior Fellow with the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (see www.cdfe.org/Paul.htm).
4.	He is a Senior Fellow with the Frontiers of Freedom Institute and Foundation (see www.cdfe.org/Paul.htm).
5.	He is the Senior Policy Advisor of the Congress of Racial Equality (see the end of the article at http://tinyurl.com/3x34su).
6.	He is a regular contributor to TCS Daily, the web-based magazine of the Tech Central Science Foundation (see http://tinyurl.com/38qw86).
7.	He is a contributing author for the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance . In July 2006, Driessen and three other noted global warming critics co-authored a report published by the ISA, criticising another religious organization for its support for action to reduce CO₂ emissions. For more details, see the ISA entry on page 151.

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