Complaint to Ofcom Regarding “The Great Global Warming Swindle”Appendix C: Backgrounds of the Contributors to the Programme |
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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. |
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Links to Corporate-funded Lobby GroupsMr Shikwati is Director of the Inter Region Economic Network or IREN (see http://www.irenkenya.com, and the IREN entry on page 152). |
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Paul DriessenPaul 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). |
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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).
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