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Complaint to Ofcom Regarding “The Great Global Warming Swindle”

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

Organisation	Details
Congress of Racial Equality or CORE www.core-online.org [Note: Contributors to the film who have links with CORE: Paul Driessen]	A right-leaning civil rights and minority issues organization. Chairman and CEO Roy Innis is an active gun rights activist and has been critical of environmental groups. CORE has received $260,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998 (see ExxonSecrets: http://tinyurl.com/3ceww7). [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 CORE, to be somewhat overstated or understated in this complaint. For the accurate updated figures and links to Exxon source documents, see: http://tinyurl.com/3ceww7 [ExxonSecrets].]
Consumer Alert or CA (see http://tinyurl.com/2q6soe and http://tinyurl.com/3daeo4 – formerly www.consumeralert.org) [Note 1: Contributors to the film who have links with CA: Professor Patrick Michaels] [Note 2: The two links above are to an archived copy of the now defunct Consumer Alert website, on the Wayback Machine’s internet archiving server. However, after the complaint was submitted, the owners of the Consumer Alert domain name put a “robots.txt” file onto the Wayback Machine, in order to block access to their archived pages.]	An anti-regulation lobby group that has received $70,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998 (see ExxonSecrets: http://tinyurl.com/2xa3ot). It has also received substantial funding from the oil company Chevron (see Center for Media and Democracy: http://tinyurl.com/2lk5h3). [Note: The above figure was accurate when this complaint was submitted. For the up-to-date figure, see: http://tinyurl.com/2xa3ot [ExxonSecrets]. ] Consumer Alert may have ceased operations. Its former website, www.consumeralert.org, is no longer online. Its website was operational until at least February 2006 (see the archives at: http://tinyurl.com/2q6soe and http://tinyurl.com/3daeo4). [Note: The two links above are to an archived copy of the now-defunct Consumer Alert website, on the Wayback Machine’s internet archiving server. However, after the complaint was submitted, the owners of the Consumer Alert domain name put a “robots.txt” file onto the Wayback Machine, in order to block access to their archived pages.]
Environmental Conservation Organization or ECO http://tinyurl.com/33efbt [Note 1: Contributors to the film who have links with the ECO: Dr Frederick Singer] [Note 2: After this complaint was submitted, the ECO website appears to have been shut down. The above link is to an archive of its home page, which was archived by the Wayback Machine on 15 April 2007.]	An anti-regulation lobby group set up to “to protect private property rights from erosion by excessive environmental regulations” (see ExxonSecrets: http://tinyurl.com/2yr55s).
Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies www.fed-soc.org [Note: Contributors to the film who have links with the Federalist Society: Dr Frederick Singer]	An influential anti-regulation lobby group which The Washington Monthly called “the best-organized, best-funded, and most effective legal network operating in this country” and added, “what gets less attention, however, is that the Society is accomplishing in the courts what Republicans can’t achieve politically” (Jerry Landay: The Federalist Society: The Conservative Cabal That’s Transforming American Law, March 2000). The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies has received $105,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998 (see ExxonSecrets: http://tinyurl.com/yu2aj6). [Note: The above figure was accurate when this complaint was submitted. For the up-to-date figure, see: http://tinyurl.com/yu2aj6 [ExxonSecrets].]
Fraser Institute www.fraserinstitute.org [Note: Contributors to the film who have links with the Fraser Institute: Dr Willie Soon]	A Canadian “free market” think tank, it has received $120,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998 (see ExxonSecrets http://tinyurl.com/3348tj). It has released several publications criticising climate science and opposing regulations on greenhouse gases (http://tinyurl.com/yoc2fz). [Note: The above figure was accurate when this complaint was submitted. For the up-to-date figure, see: http://tinyurl.com/3348tj [ExxonSecrets].]

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