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==Affiliations==
 
==Affiliations==
Nigel Lawson set up [[The Global Warming Policy Foundation]] (GWPF) in 2009.
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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.<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

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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]

External Resources

Notes

  1. Lord Lawson of Blaby, www.parliament.uk, accessed 4 June 2010.
  2. Who we are, GWPF website, Accessed 11 February 2011
  3. Concealing their sources - who funds Europe’s climate change deniers, CEO report p.6, Accessed 11 February 2011