Two climate group spin-offs recently formed in the UK. One is the campaigning arm of Lord Lawson's Global Warming Policy Foundation, the UK's premier climate denial lobbying group. Having received complaints about its status as an educational charity, the GWPF created its new campaigning arm so as not to be bound by the limits of accuracy or its educational mandate when conducting political lobbying.
In a well-timed counter-launch, DeSmogUK made its debut with quite a splash by revealing some of the (until now) secret money behind GWPF. In a piece on its new blog, as well as in coverage at the Guardian, DeSmogUK uncovers two of GWPF's main donors.
It turns out the two people who have given substantial sums to GWPF are from (brace yourself) the fossil-fuel funded, free-market "Institute for Economic Affairs."