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Extracts from Ofcom Complaint, by Category: Misrepresentation of People’s Views

Extracts from Appendix C: Backgrounds of the Contributors to the Programme

C.19.1 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.	Christy is a member of the Independent Institute’s Panel on Global Warming (see http://tinyurl.com/yp6hh2). He has also written reports for the Independent Institute, e.g. New Perspectives in Climate Change: What the EPA Isn’t Telling Us, July 28, 2003, http://tinyurl.com/34rp8y.
2.	Spencer is a Science Roundtable Member (see http://tinyurl.com/yuf3ld) and contributing author (see http://tinyurl.com/3au28u) of the Tech Central Science Foundation.
3.	Spencer is a Scientific Advisor to the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance (see ISA web page at http://tinyurl.com/yss5dy). In July 2006, Spencer 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 [below].
4.	Spencer is a regular contributor to TCS Daily, the web-based magazine of the Tech Central Science Foundation (see: http://tinyurl.com/3au28u).
5.	Spencer is a contributing author to the Heartland Institute (see http://tinyurl.com/2payzk).
6.	Spencer is a Contributing Expert to the George C. Marshall Institute (see http://tinyurl.com/238m72).

C.20 Professor Carl Wunsch

Carl Wunsch is Professor of Physical Oceanography at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has a distinguished publication record on oceans and the climate (see http://tinyurl.com/659hn6).

Wunsch has reported that he was misled into contributing to the programme, and that his views were seriously misrepresented by it (see http://tinyurl.com/ypjhhl). He has since clarified his views on human-induced climate change and on the documentary (see http://tinyurl.com/2gxorv).

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