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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

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Friends of Science or FoS
www.friendsofscience.org

[Note: Contributors to the film who have links with FoS:
Dr Tim Ball]

An anti-Kyoto lobby group partly funded by oil and gas companies (see Center for Media and Democracy: http://tinyurl.com/yojcxx and DeSmogBlog: http://tinyurl.com/2vd2b9).

In a January 28, 2007 article in the Toronto Star (see http://tinyurl.com/2wvje2), the President of FoS admitted that about one-third of the funding for the FoS is provided by the oil industry.

In an August 12, 2006 Globe and Mail feature (which is at http://tinyurl.com/39q2dj), FoS was exposed as being funded in part by the oil and gas sectors and as hiding the fact that they were. According to the Globe and Mail, the oil industry money was funnelled through the Calgary Foundation charity, to the University of Calgary and then put into an education trust for the FoS.

Frontiers of Freedom Institute and Foundation or FoF
www.ff.org

[Note: Contributors to the film who have links with the FoF:
Paul Driessen
Dr Frederick Singer]

A lobby group set up to fight environmental regulations, particularly the Endangered Species Act and any law seen as infringing on “property rights.” It has received $1,182,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998 (see ExxonSecrets: http://tinyurl.com/ysyp49).

[Note: The above figure was accurate when this complaint was submitted. For the up-to-date figure, see: http://tinyurl.com/ysyp49 [ExxonSecrets].]

George C. Marshall Institute, or GMI
www.marshall.org

[Note: Contributors to the film who have links with the GMI:
Dr Willie Soon
Professor Richard Lindzen
Dr Roy Spencer]

GMI lobbies on civic environmentalism, climate change and national defence, and has received $745,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998 (see ExxonSecrets: http://tinyurl.com/26xkau).

[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 GMI, to be somewhat overstated or understated in this complaint. For the accurate updated figures and links to Exxon source documents, see: http://tinyurl.com/26xkau [ExxonSecrets].]

For a revealing look at the views of the GMI, see their May 2005 Policy Outlook at http://tinyurl.com/yw8blj (PDF).

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