Difference between revisions of "Nigel Lawson"
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The GWPF claims that their main purpose is ―to bring reason, integrity and balance to a debate that has become seriously unbalanced, irrationally alarmist, and all too often depressingly intolerant.<ref>[http://thegwpf.org/who-we-are.html Who we are], GWPF website, Accessed 11 February 2011</ref> Yet it relentlessly claims that climate change will not have too serious effects. The group‘s claim to be sceptical about climate policy and not about climate change itself appears a strategic choice, given that the GPWF oozes climate change denialism.<ref> [http://www.corporateeurope.org/system/files/files/article/funding_climate_deniers.pdf Concealing their sources - who funds Europe’s climate change deniers], CEO report p.6, Accessed 11 February 2011</ref> | The GWPF claims that their main purpose is ―to bring reason, integrity and balance to a debate that has become seriously unbalanced, irrationally alarmist, and all too often depressingly intolerant.<ref>[http://thegwpf.org/who-we-are.html Who we are], GWPF website, Accessed 11 February 2011</ref> Yet it relentlessly claims that climate change will not have too serious effects. The group‘s claim to be sceptical about climate policy and not about climate change itself appears a strategic choice, given that the GPWF oozes climate change denialism.<ref> [http://www.corporateeurope.org/system/files/files/article/funding_climate_deniers.pdf Concealing their sources - who funds Europe’s climate change deniers], CEO report p.6, Accessed 11 February 2011</ref> | ||
*[[Global Warming Policy Foundation]] Chairman, Board of Trustees | *[[Global Warming Policy Foundation]] Chairman, Board of Trustees | ||
| − | + | *[[Standpoint magazine]], advisory council | |
==External Resources== | ==External Resources== | ||
*Spinwatch, [http://www.spinwatch.org/blogs-mainmenu-29/andy-rowell-mainmenu-30/5334-beware-sceptics-bringing-balance-to-the-climate-debate Beware Sceptics Bringing “Balance” to the Climate Debate] | *Spinwatch, [http://www.spinwatch.org/blogs-mainmenu-29/andy-rowell-mainmenu-30/5334-beware-sceptics-bringing-balance-to-the-climate-debate Beware Sceptics Bringing “Balance” to the Climate Debate] | ||
Revision as of 15:39, 17 February 2011
Nigel Lawson was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1983 to 1989. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Lawson of Blaby in 1992.[1]
Affiliations
Nigel Lawson set up Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) in 2009. The GWPF claims that their main purpose is ―to bring reason, integrity and balance to a debate that has become seriously unbalanced, irrationally alarmist, and all too often depressingly intolerant.[2] Yet it relentlessly claims that climate change will not have too serious effects. The group‘s claim to be sceptical about climate policy and not about climate change itself appears a strategic choice, given that the GPWF oozes climate change denialism.[3]
- Global Warming Policy Foundation Chairman, Board of Trustees
- Standpoint magazine, advisory council
External Resources
Notes
- ↑ Lord Lawson of Blaby, www.parliament.uk, accessed 4 June 2010.
- ↑ Who we are, GWPF website, Accessed 11 February 2011
- ↑ Concealing their sources - who funds Europe’s climate change deniers, CEO report p.6, Accessed 11 February 2011
