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Complaint to Ofcom Regarding “The Great Global Warming Swindle”

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

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The Advancement of Sound Science Center, or TASSC

[Note: Contributors to the film who have links with TASSC:
Dr Frederick Singer
Professor Patrick Michaels]

The Advancement of Sound Science Center (TASSC), formerly The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, is an industry-funded lobby group which promotes the idea that environmental science is “junk science”, which should be replaced by “sound science” more favourable to corporate interests (see Wikipedia: http://tinyurl.com/2rgkr8).

It runs well-funded campaigns to cast doubt on a variety of environmental and public health issues, including global warming and second hand smoke.

It was founded primarily by the tobacco company Philip Morris in 1993 and changed its name after receiving negative exposure in an April 26, 1998 New York Times article: John H. Cushman, Jr., “Industrial Group Plans to Battle Climate Treaty”, http://tinyurl.com/2x86n5.

TASSC is headed by Steven Milloy, who also runs the junkscience.com website.

See also the following articles, by the Union of Concerned Scientists: http://tinyurl.com/v8u2d (PDF), the University of Maryland: http://tinyurl.com/2hdzbf, the Center for Media and Democracy: http://tinyurl.com/yho43j, Wikipedia: http://tinyurl.com/2rgkr8 and Tim Lambert: http://timlambert.org/2004/02/milloy.

TASSC has received $50,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998 (see ExxonSecrets: http://tinyurl.com/ysmsk9). It also receives substantial funding from the mining company 3M, the oil company Chevron, the car firm General Motors and the oil company Occidental Petroleum (see Wikipedia: http://tinyurl.com/2h477f).

[Note: The above figure was accurate when this complaint was submitted. For the up-to-date figure, see: http://tinyurl.com/ysmsk9 [ExxonSecrets].]

The Annapolis Center for Science-Based Public Policy
www.annapoliscenter.org

[Note: Contributors to the film who have links with The Annapolis Center:
Professor Richard Lindzen
Professor Paul Reiter]

A lobby group that argues against the idea that global warming is the result of burning fossil fuels, and which has received $841,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998 (see ExxonSecrets: http://tinyurl.com/ywptzr).

[ 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 Annapolis Center, to be somewhat overstated or understated in this complaint. For the accurate updated figures and links to Exxon source documents, see: http://tinyurl.com/ywptzr [ExxonSecrets].]

Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy
(formerly the Center for Study of American Business) http://wc.wustl.edu

[Note: Contributors to the film who have links with the Weidenbaum Center:
Professor Patrick Michaels]

A publishing house that has published the works of several noted global warming critics in its Policy Study series, and which has received $345,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998 (see ExxonSecrets: http://tinyurl.com/ywrpwf).

[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 Weidenbaum Cente, to be somewhat overstated or understated in this complaint. For the accurate updated figures and links to Exxon source documents, see: http://tinyurl.com/ywrpwf [ExxonSecrets].]

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