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 We do not publish a list, because if donors wish to remain anonymous, for whatever reasons, perfectly good reasons, then it is their privilege.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.

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.