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Complaint to Ofcom Regarding “The Great Global Warming Swindle”

Appendix D: Corporate-funded Organisations Linked to Contributors to the Programme

The information in the table below was obtained from the websites that it cites and links to throughout. The authors of this complaint carried out this research with the help of many others, whose contributions are acknowledged in section 1.13, page 12.

Organisation	Details
American Council on Science and Health or ACSH www.acsh.org [Note: Contributors to the film who have links with the ACSH: Dr Frederick Singer Professor Patrick Michaels]	A lobby group that takes the position on most health and environmental issues that the threat in question is not a serious risk. ACSH has received $125,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998 (see ExxonSecrets: http://tinyurl.com/26qodt). [Note: The above figure was accurate when this complaint was submitted. For the up-to-date figure, see: http://tinyurl.com/26qodt [ExxonSecrets].]
American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC www.alec.org [Note: Contributors to the film who have links with ALEC: Professor Patrick Michaels]	ALEC lobbies to discredit state level legislation that provides incentives to cut CO₂ emissions. It has received $1,127,700 from ExxonMobil since 1998 (see ExxonSecrets: http://tinyurl.com/25dzty). [Note: The above amount was the total ExxonMobil donations figure received from ExxonSecrets researchers at the time that this complaint was submitted in June 2007. Subsequently, new data has been uploaded and data entry and programming errors have been corrected, causing the total figures for some organizations, including ALEC, to be somewhat overstated or understated in this complaint. For the accurate updated figures and links to Exxon source documents, see: http://tinyurl.com/25dzty [ExxonSecrets].]
American Petroleum Institute or API www.api.org [Note: Contributors to the film who have links with the API: Dr Willie Soon]	The main U.S. trade association representing the oil and natural gas industry, its activities include lobbying and public relations. A 1998 leaked API memo (see: http://tinyurl.com/v8u2d, Appendix C, Part I) detailed a public relations campaign for defeating the Kyoto Protocol and similar policies by questioning the science of climate change. It states that: “Victory will be achieved when average citizens understand (recognize) uncertainties in climate science” and when public “recognition of uncertainty becomes part of the ‘conventional wisdom’.”
American Spectator www.spectator.org [Note: Contributors to the film who have links with the American Spectator: Professor Patrick Michaels]	An on-line and print conservative magazine that has received $40,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998 (see ExxonSecrets: http://tinyurl.com/2663d6). [Note: The above figure was accurate when this complaint was submitted. For the up-to-date figure, see: http://tinyurl.com/2663d6 [ExxonSecrets].]
Atlas Economic Research Foundation, or AERF www.atlasusa.org [Note: Contributors to the film who have links with the AERF: Paul Driessen]	An anti-regulation lobby group which has received $925,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998 (see ExxonSecrets: http://tinyurl.com/3bnrjh). [Note: The above amount was the total ExxonMobil donations figure received from ExxonSecrets researchers at the time that this complaint was submitted in June 2007. Subsequently, new data has been uploaded and data entry and programming errors have been corrected, causing the total figures for some organizations, including the AERF, to be somewhat overstated or understated in this complaint. For the accurate updated figures and links to Exxon source documents, see: http://tinyurl.com/3bnrjh [ExxonSecrets].]
Cato Institute www.cato.org [Note: Contributors to the film who have links with the Cato Institute: Dr Frederick Singer Professor Patrick Michaels Professor Richard Lindzen]	A libertarian “think tank” and lobby group that has received $125,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998 (see ExxonSecrets: http://tinyurl.com/32428h), as well receiving substantial funding from energy industry-money–backed charitable foundations such as the Charles G Koch Foundation (see Media Transparency: http://tinyurl.com/2qgy4j). [Note: The above figure was accurate when this complaint was submitted. For the up-to-date figure, see: http://tinyurl.com/32428h [ExxonSecrets].]

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