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Extracts from Ofcom Complaint, by Category: Misrepresentation of People’s Views

Extracts from Appendix C: Backgrounds of the Contributors to the Programme

He has also oscillated rapidly between claiming in 2005 that there is no evidence that global warming is happening (see http://tinyurl.com/2jqe6y), to claiming in 2006 that it’s happening and it’s unstoppable (see http://tinyurl.com/33bk2t) to claiming in 2007 that “climate is not warming significantly” (see http://tinyurl.com/383tk5).

Dr Singer cannot therefore be objectively regarded as a leading scientist, nor as an expert on climate.

C.10.1 Direct Corporate Funding

He founded and is currently President of the Science and Environmental Policy Project (see http://tinyurl.com/2tqgp2, and the entry on SEPP on page 46).

In a September 24, 1993 sworn affidavit (which is at http://tinyurl.com/2rrqz7, PDF), Dr. Singer admitted to conducting climate change research on behalf of oil companies, such as Exxon, Texaco, Arco, Shell and the American Gas Association. However, on February 12, 2001, Singer wrote a letter to The Washington Post in which he denied receiving any oil company money in the previous 20 years (http://tinyurl.com/39nm8b).

C.10.2 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).

1.	He is a Scientific Advisor to the American Council on Science and Health (see http://tinyurl.com/2wtdvp).
2.	He has been a Science Adviser to The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (see http://tinyurl.com/359hf3).
3.	He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Cato Institute (see http://tinyurl.com/3xnmpa).
4.	Until at least June 2004, he was an Adjunct Fellow of the Frontiers of Freedom Institute and Foundation (see http://tinyurl.com/2xhdem and http://tinyurl.com/2orgp6).
5.	He is an E-Team Adjunct Scholar at the National Center for Policy Analysis (see http://tinyurl.com/26lp95).
6.	He is a Research Fellow of, and is sponsored by, the *Independent Institute* (source http://tinyurl.com/2f7t78). He has also written reports on behalf of The Independent Institute, e.g. New Perspectives in Climate Change: What the EPA Isn’t Telling Us, July 28, 2003, http://tinyurl.com/34rp8y.
7.	He is on the Board of Advisors of the Environmental Conservation Organization (see http://tinyurl.com/2x68el). [Note: After this complaint was submitted, the ECO website appears to have been shut down. We originally linked to their “Who we are” page, which was then located at http://www.eco.freedom.org/whoweare.html. The new link is to an archive of their “Who we are” page, which was archived by the Wayback Machine on 15 April 2007.]
8.	He is a Featured Expert of the Centre for the New Europe (see Singer, S.F., Climate Policy – from Rio to Kyoto: A Political Issue for 2000 and Beyond, Centre for the New Europe: PDF file at http://tinyurl.com/3atp5b). Continued …

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