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

Extracts from 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 [of the full complaint].

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].]
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].]
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].]
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. Continued …

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