Complaint to Ofcom Regarding The Great Global Warming Swindle

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

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Organisation

Details

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

[Note: Contributors to the film who have links with the CDFE: Paul Driessen]

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 dont 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).

[Note: The above figure was accurate when this complaint was submitted. For the up-to-date figure, see: http://tinyurl.com/2rb9wj [ExxonSecrets].]

Centre for the New Europe
www.cne.org

[Note: Contributors to the film who have links with the Centre for the New Europe:
Dr Frederick Singer]

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).

[Note: The above figure was accurate when this complaint was submitted. For the up-to-date figure, see: http://tinyurl.com/yty46r [ExxonSecrets].]

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

[Note: Contributors to the film who have links with CFACT:
Paul Driessen
Professor Patrick Michaels]

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

[Note: The above figure was accurate when this complaint was submitted. For the up-to-date figure, see: http://tinyurl.com/2zxbu7 [ExxonSecrets].]

Competitive Enterprise Institute or CEI
www.cei.org

[Note: Contributors to the film who have links with the CEI:
Professor Patrick Michaels
Professor Paul Reiter]

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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