Globalisation:Global Warming Policy Foundation: Funding and links with skeptic think tanks

The Global Warming Policy foundation empasises the following; We are funded entirely by voluntary donations from our Members and Supporters. The annual membership fee is as much as you feel you can afford, but is a minimum of £100 p.a. All donors will receive a Gift Aid Declaration. If you're a UK taxpayer, you can use Gift Aid to make your donations go further. If you do, The Global Warming Foundation will receive an additional 25p for every pound you give through tax relief and at no extra cost to you. The GWPF does not disclose the identity of their donors.In March 2010, Lord Lawson said: 'We have donations from private individuals and private charitable trusts. That is how we are financed. We have one absolutely strict rule: we will not accept any money at all from the energy industry or anyone who has any significant interest in the energy industry. We do not publish a list, because if donors wish to remain anonymous, for whatever reasons, perfectly good reasons, then it is their privilege. I am very happy for them to be published. We are absolutely clean. I would be very happy to see the names of all our donors published.

The lack of GWPF to declare the source of their funds does not gain them much trust with members of the public. It leaves people wondering what/who is behind the GWPF and what their aims are. This is even made more spectical and suspecious by some of their associations. Peiser has strong ties with to institutions in the US such as the Heartland Institute which have, over the years, received significant sums of money from companies such as Exxon Mobil. . Although this is not a donation to the GWPF themselves Peiser is a representative of the GWPF It is a well known fact that Peiser also used to be on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Scientific Alliance, that was set up to counter the environmental movement by Scottish quarryman, Robert Durward. Peiser's past employer; The scientific Alliance also has links with ExxonMobil through a joint report (funded by ExxonMobil) with the George C Marshall Institute in Washington that claimed to "undermine" climate change claims.

In 2008 Peiser was a speaker at The Heartland Institute's 2008 International Conference on Climate Change was a conference held at the Marriott New York Marquis Times Square Hotel in New York between March 2-4 . The conference was organised and "sponsored" by the Heartland Institute, a U.S. think tanks that in preceding years received substantial funding from Exxon for its work downplaying the significance of global warming. This clearly shows that Peiser who is the director and thus a representative of GWPF ( a person holding the interests of GWPF), Heartland Institute and ExxonMobil have a link.