Complaint to Ofcom Regarding “The Great Global Warming Swindle”

Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise or CDFE
www.cdfe.org

An anti-environmentalist lobby group and publisher that campaigns, among other things for the exploitation of the petroleum resources in the Arctic National Wildlife Park, and which has published several books attacking environmentalism. They have been quoted in newspaper interviews as saying “We are sick to death of environmentalism and so we will destroy it” (Boston Globe), and “Facts don’t really matter. In politics, perception is reality” (Outside Magazine) – see ExxonSecrets: http://tinyurl.com/2rb9wj.

CDFE has received $230,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998 (see ExxonSecrets: http://tinyurl.com/2rb9wj).

Centre for the New Europe
www.cne.org

A “think tank” and lobby group that promotes “pro-market” and “European liberal” policies for the European Union, and which regularly collaborates with members of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation

CNE has received $170,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998 (see ExxonSecrets: http://tinyurl.com/yty46r).

Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow or CFACT
www.cfact.org

An anti-regulation lobby group that has received $567,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998 (see ExxonSecrets: http://tinyurl.com/2zxbu7).

Competitive Enterprise Institute or CEI
www.cei.org

An anti-regulation lobby group at the centre of the global warming misinformation campaign.

In May 2006 it ran a television advertising campaign in 14 US states featuring two 60 second films which claimed that increasing the levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide is good for us, and included the statement: “carbon dioxide: they call it pollution; we call it life!” See www.cei.org/pages/co2.cfm, http://tinyurl.com/ltb9w and http://tinyurl.com/j45yg. The campaign was the subject of a complaint by Professor Curt Davis, whose studies one of the films had quoted. He said the advertisement had intentionally misrepresented his research, and called it a “deliberate effort to confuse and mislead the public” – see http://tinyurl.com/r62fk.

In August 2003, the CEI sued the US Federal Government (see http://tinyurl.com/38w8e3) in order to suppress two major scientific reports concerning the current state of scientific knowledge about global warming. The CEI action failed, and the report was published to worldwide headlines focussing on the fact that the Bush administration was now admitting the science of climate change.

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