Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Background

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) is a UK-based think tank founded by former Conservative Chancellor Nigel Lawson with the purpose of combating what it describes as “extremely damaging and harmful policies” designed to mitigate climate change. The group was established on November 22, 2009, just three days after the first set of “Climategate” emails were released on the University of Tomsk’s server.¹“Ed Miliband clashes with Lord Lawson on global warming,” BBC News, December 6, 2009. Archived August 17, 2015. ²“COPENHAGEN WILL FAIL – AND QUITE RIGHT TOO,” The Global Warming Policy Forum, November 22, 2009. Archived August 17, 2015.

Nigel Lawson described the GWPF as an “all-party and non-party think-tank and a registered educational charity which, while open-minded on the contested science of global warming, is deeply concerned about the costs and other implications of many of the policies currently being advocated.” Although Lawson claims to be “open minded” on global warming, the GWPF website has a banner depicting a short-term temperature graph that suggests the world is not warming.³“GWPF Launched Today!” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, November 23, 2009. Archived January 4, 2012.

In an interview with The Register, Nigel Lawson said that the Global Warming Policy Foundation “will certainly be actively involved in monitoring what is being said, in correcting errors where there are errors. The only thing we will not be actively engaged in is what are the causes of the temperature changes on the planet: how much is CO2, how much is solar radiation, how much is cosmic rays. We won’t be getting into all that.” The article also notes that the average age of the Trustees at the time of the group’s formation was 74.⁴“Nigel Lawson: Climate science has turned into religion,” The Register, November 25, 2009. Archived August 17, 2015.

Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics said that “Some of those names [on the GWPF‘s Academic Advisory Council] are straight from the Who’s Who of current climate change sceptics … To me, this is pretty much indistinguishable from the websites that are run by rightwing, free-market think tanks in the US. It’s just going to be a way of pumping material into the debate that hasn’t been through scrutiny,” reports The Guardian.⁵Caroline Davies and Suzanne Goldenberg. “The voices of climate change sceptics,” The Guardian, November 24, 2009. Archived August 17, 2015.

The Global Warming Policy Forum 

The similarly-named Global Warming Policy Forum (thegwpf.com) describes itself as “a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Global Warming Policy Foundation” and a “London-based think tank which conducts campaigns and activities which do not fall squarely within the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s remit as an educational charity.” Its Director is Dr Benny Peiser, the same as the Global Warming Policy Foundation, and its Chairman is Neil Record, who also chairs the BP-funded pro-free market Institute of Economic Affairs.⁶“Who We Are,” The Global Warming Policy Forum. Archived August 17, 2015. ⁷“Who we are,” The Global Warming Policy Forum. Archived October 30, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.md/lwIeF ⁸“People,” Institute of Economic Affairs. Archived November 17, 2015.

On October 11, 2021, the Global Warming Policy Forum rebranded as Net Zero Watch, a campaign that claims to “scrutinise” the UK government’s net zero emissions plans and provide a “clear view of the reality of climate and energy policies”.⁹Benny Peiser. “Welcome to Net Zero Watch,” Net Zero Watch. Archived October 11, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/waLwc​​ The former URL for the Global Warming Policy Forum (thegwpf.com) now re-directs to the Net Zero Watch site. The group’s Twitter and Facebook accounts have also been rebranded as Net Zero Watch.¹⁰“Who We Are,” Net Zero Watch. Archived October 11, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/JIFzv

The reason for the formation of the Global Warming Policy Forum as a separate entity can be traced to a report by the UK Charity Commission (PDF) that looked into the Global Warming Policy Foundation when “Concerns were raised with the commission that the charity was promoting views that were of a political rather than an educational nature.”¹¹Operational Case Report: The Global Warming Policy Foundation (1131448). The Charity Commission, September 30, 2014.

The Commission examined the GWPF‘s website, blog, and publications, and came to the conclusion that the GWPF lacked its claimed neutrality, as it “promoted a particular position on global warming.” The Charity Commission also ruled that the GWPF did not constitute an educational resource: “The [GWPF] website could not be regarded as a comprehensive and structured educational resource sufficient to demonstrate public benefit. In areas of controversy, education requires balance and neutrality with sufficient weight given to competing arguments. The promotion of a particular view or position would not equate to education.” (Emphasis added).¹²Operational Case Report: The Global Warming Policy Foundation (1131448). The Charity Commission, September 30, 2014.

As an impact of the Charity Commission’s involvement, the Global Warming Policy Foundation split off from the Global Warming Policy Forum in September, 2014 as a non-charitable entity that would act as a “campaigning body fully able to promote the opinions and policy change”.¹³Operational Case Report: The Global Warming Policy Foundation (1131448), The Charity Commission, September 30, 2014.

American Friends of the GWPF

DeSmogUK reports that the GWPF set up a new 501(c)(3) fundraising arm titled the American Friends of the GWPF in April 2015 so as to “enable supporters in the USA to enjoy tax relief on donations.”¹⁴Kyla Mandel. “UK Climate Denial Think Tank Global Warming Policy Foundation Sets Up US Fundraising Arm,” DeSmog UK, May 6, 2016.

The new Friends of the GWPF was created after donations dropped significantly from £377,979 ($547,219) in 2014 to £207,019 ($299,711) in 2015. The GWPF‘s most recent Companies House filing shows that the average number of staff dropped from four to three, with membership fees down more than £3,500 ($5,067).¹⁵“THE GLOBAL WARMING POLICY FOUNDATION: Company number 06962749,” Companies House. Archived May 10, 2016. WebCite URL: http://www.webcitation.org/6hP9HskvU

Company details show that American Friends of the GWPF is represented by Los Angeles lawyer, Paul Tosetti, who has handled several mergers of large pharmaceutical companies. View related 990 tax filings below.¹⁶“THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE GWPF INC in GILLETTE, NJ 07933,” NonProfitStorm. Archived May 10, 2016. WebCite URL: http://www.webcitation.org/6hP6ycitt ¹⁷“Paul D. Tosetti,” Latham & Watkins LLP. Accessed May 10, 2016. WebCite URL: http://www.webcitation.org/6hP8oXKYg

American Friends of the GWPF 990 Forms

Stance on Climate Change

According to Benny Peiser, director of the GWPF, “We are certainly not taking a critical stance on the basic science of the greenhouse effect or the fact that CO2 emissions in the atmosphere are having an effect on the climate.” He said the foundation exists to help restore a less “hysterical” and “emotional” debate on the subject and promote what he calls a more “flexible and long-term approach” to the problem.¹⁸James Randerson. “Climate sceptics: are they gaining any credence?” The Guardian, December 4, 2009. Archived August 17, 2015.

The following are excerpts from a 2015 GWPF “Report” on Climate Change by Andrew Montford:¹⁹Andrew Montford. “Unintended Consequences of Climate Change Policy” (PDF), Global Warming Policy Foundation, January 2015. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

“Policies to ‘stop climate change’ are based on climate models that completely failed to predict the lack of warming for the past two decades. Observational data show clearly that the predictions of unacceptable warming caused by more carbon dioxide are wrong. Economic discount rates aside, policies designed to save the planet from more carbon dioxide are based on failed computer models.”

“[…] Human emissions of carbon dioxide, a transparent, odorless, non-toxic gas, essential for plant growth and contained at about 40,000 parts per million (ppm) in our own breaths. Carbon dioxide has been mercilessly demonized as ‘carbon pollution’, when in fact it is a benefit to the planet. Agricultural production has increased substantially and the Earth is greener today with the 400 ppm current levels of carbon dioxide than it was with preindustrial levels of about 280 ppm. And two or three times higher levels would be even better.”

Funding & Membership

According to Companies House disclosures, the Global Warming Policy Foundation generated only £5,409 in income from membership feeds for the year ending September 30, 2016.²⁰“THE GLOBAL WARMING POLICY FOUNDATION: Company number 06962749,” Companies House. Accessed October 19, 2017. Documents on file at DeSmog. As the Independent reported, this number was the lowest annual total in the history of the foundation.²¹Bob Ward. “The UK‘s main climate sceptic club’s membership is dwindling – yet they still hold power in certain arenas,” The Independent, January 30, 2017. Archived October 19, 2017. Archive URL: https://archive.is/DQG2F With membership fees of roughly £100 per year, per member, this would also suggest that the group has fewer than 60 members, however this is speculative considering GWPF does not publish details on its membership.²²“THE GLOBAL WARMING POLICY FOUNDATION: Company number 06962749,” Companies House. Accessed October 19, 2017. Documents on file at DeSmog.

The Global Warming Policy Foundation is registered as a charity in the UK (Number 1131448), which gives it certain tax advantages. Below are its financial details at the UK Charity Commision (charitycommission.gov.uk) as of June 2018:²³“1131448 – THE GLOBAL WARMING POLICY FOUNDATION,” Profile at charitycommision.gov.uk. Accessed August 17, 2015.

According to the GWPF, “We are funded entirely by voluntary donations from our Members and Supporters.” They describe their members as “part of a growing international community of like-minded people who are helping to restore balance and accuracy to the climate debates.” They suggest that by becoming a paying member, one can “actively help to inform and shape these debates.”²⁴“Membership – Global Warming Policy Foundation,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation. Archived December 27, 2011.

According to SourceWatch, The Global Warming Policy Foundation will not reveal its funding sources. Lord Lawson, when interviewed by BBC Radio 4, said that he relied on his friends who “tend to be richer than the average person and much more intelligent than the average person.”²⁵“Global Warming Policy Foundation,” SourceWatch Profile. ²⁶“Lawson still won’t come clean about sceptic foundation’s funding,” Left Foot Forward, June 10, 2010. Archived August 17, 2015. ²⁷“Climategate Revisited,” BBC Radio 4, October 21, 2012.

The GWPF has rejected FoI (Freedom of Information) requests on at least four different occasions. Bob Ward of the Grantham Research Institute on climate Change and the Environment comments:²⁸Damian Carrington. “Chris Huhne blasts Lord Lawson’s climate sceptic thinktank,” The Guardian, November 22, 2011. Archived August 17, 2015.

“These [FoI] documents expose once again the double standards promoted by…the GWPF, who demand absolute transparency from everybody except themselves…The GWPF was the most strident critic during the ‘Climategate’ row of the standards of transparency practised by the University of East Anglia, yet it simply refuses to disclose basic information about its own secretive operations, including the identity of its funders.”

GWPF has defended their funding secrecy, claiming that “the soil we till is highly controversial, and anyone who puts their head above the parapet has to be prepared to endure a degree of public vilification. For that reason we offer all our donors the protection of anonymity.” According to a 2011 article in The Guardian, its total income for the period up to 31 July 2010 was £503,302, of which only £8,168 (or 1.6%) came from membership contributions.²⁹Leo Hickman. “Global Warming Policy Foundation donor funding levels revealed,” The Guardian, January 20, 2011. Archived August 17, 2015.

This leaves the question of who provides the rest of their funding. The foundation charges a minimum annual membership fee of £100. According to The Guardian, the foundation received £12,161 from membership fees in the year ending 31 July 2012. That would suggest a membership of 120 members at the most. The GWPF‘s main source of income remains donations, having received over £1m in the past three years. The Guardian investigated further, and found that one of the foundation’s secret donors is Michael Hintze, a businessman who has also given large sums of money to the Conservative party.³⁰Bob Ward. “Secret funding of climate sceptics is not restricted to the US,” The Guardian, February 15, 2013. Archived August 17, 2015. ³¹Graham Readfearn, Leo Hickman and Rupert Neate. “Michael Hintze revealed as funder of Lord Lawson’s climate thinktank,” The Guardian, March 27, 2012. Archived August 17, 2015.

In 2014, Neil Record, the founding chairman of his own specialist currency management company, and trustee of the free market Institute of Economic Affairs think tank, was named for the first time as a financial backer.³²Brendan Montague. “Exposed: Lawson’s Climate Denial Donors’ Links to Tobacco and Oil Backed Think Tank,” DeSmog UK, September 2, 2014.

Asked how much he gave to Lawson’s charity, he replied this was “a private matter on which I am not prepared to comment further.” DeSmog UK estimates the donations to be higher than £100,000.³³Brendan Montague. “Exposed: Lawson’s Climate Denial Donors’ Links to Tobacco and Oil Backed Think Tank,” DeSmog UK, September 2, 2014.

DeSmog UK also reported that Lord Vinson, who was instrumental in the rise to power of the late Margaret Thatcher, was also a backer of GWPF. He donated at least £15,000 to the Global Warming Policy Foundation in the first five years through his own charity, according to documents submitted to the Charity Commission. Between 2013 and 2017, the Nigel Vinson Charitable Trust donated a total of £45,000 to the GWPF.³⁴Brendan Montague. “Exposed: Lawson’s Climate Denial Donors’ Links to Tobacco and Oil Backed Think Tank,” DeSmog UK, September 2, 2014. ³⁵“NIGEL VINSON CHARITABLE TRUST,” Charity Commission. Archived March 20, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/9Gr5u

A joint investigation published by DeSmog and Democracy for Sale revealed that Conservative Party donors had given £6.8 million to Tufton Street think tanks between 2019-2024, £49,000 of which was donated by Conservative Peer Lord Vinson to the GWPF.³⁶
Peter Geoghegan, Lucas Amin and Sam Bright. “Tory Donors Have Pumped Almost £7 Million into Tufton Street Since 2019,” DeSmog, June 13, 2024.

Global Warming Policy Foundation Companies House & Research Docs

Global Warming Policy Forum Companies House Docs

Key People

• Terence Mordaunt — Chairman, December 2019.³⁷Richard Collett-White. “Major Tory Donor and Johnson Backer to Lead UK Climate Science Denial Group,” DeSmog, December 18, 2019.
• Lord Bernard Donoughue — Chairman, as of January 2019.³⁸Richard Collett-White. “Lord Donoughue: New Chair of Climate Science Denying Group Has Vested Interests in Fossil Fuels,” DeSmog, January 30, 2019.
• Benny Peiser — Director.³⁹“Dr Benny Peiser,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation. Archived May 3, 2017. Archive URL: https://archive.is/gYq8t
• Andrew Montford — Deputy Director, as of May 2017.⁴⁰(Press Release). “ANDREW MONTFORD APPOINTED GWPF DEPUTY DIRECTOR,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, May 2, 2016. Archived May 3, 2017. Archive URL: https://archive.is/d0Hm7
• Neil Record — Chairman, Global Warming Policy Forum.⁴¹“Who we are,” The Global Warming Policy Forum. Archived October 30, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.md/lwIeF

Board of Trustees

*Stringer is the only currently-elected MP to be listed as a GWPF trustee.⁴²Kyla Mandel. “Labour and Tory MPs Join Lord Lawson’s Climate Denial Global Warming Policy Foundation,” DeSmog UK, July 17, 2015. 

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Andrew Turnbull

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Bernard Donoughue

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David Frost (Rt Hon Lord Frost)

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Charles Moore

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Chris Gibson-Smith

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Emma Nicholson

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Fritz Vahrenholt

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Graham Stringer*

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Henri Lepage

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Jerome Booth

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Kathy Gyngell

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Peter Edwards

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Kathy Gyngell

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Martin Jacomb

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Michael J Kelly

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Nigel Lawson

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Chairman (2011–2018)

Peter Edwards

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Peter Forster

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Peter Lilley

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Robert Fellowes

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Ruth Lea

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Steve Baker**

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Terence Mordaunt

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Michael John Cole

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Tony Abbott

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Allison Pearson

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Joe Oliver

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**Baker was a sitting MP during his time as a GWPF trustee. Baker stepped down from the GWPF Board of Trustees on September 8, 2022, a day after being appointed the Minister of State in the Northern Ireland office.⁴³Rich Collett-White. “Steve Baker Leaves Climate Denial Group for Ministerial Post,” DeSmog, September 8, 2022.

Academic Advisory Council

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201544“Academic Advisory Council,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation. Archived August 17, 2015.

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Adrian Berry (1937-2016)

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Alan Peacock (1922-2014)

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Alan Rudge

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Anastasios Tsonis

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Anthony Kelly (1929-2014)

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B P Radhakrishna (1918-2012)

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Bryan Leyland

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Christian Gerondeau

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Christopher Essex

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David Henderson (1927-2018)

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David Whitehouse

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Deepak Lal (1940-2020)45“Obituary: Economist and BS Columnist Deepak Lal passes away at 80,” Business Standard, May 1, 2020. Archived May 5, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/oA3BA

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Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)

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Fritz Vahrenholt

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Garth Paltridge

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Gautam Kalghatgi

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Gwythian Prins

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Hal Lewis

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Henrik Svensmark

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Ian Byatt

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Ian Plimer

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Indur Goklany

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John Constable

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Laurence Gould

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Matt Ridley

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Nir Shaviv

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Ole Humlum

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Paul Reiter

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Peter Dobson

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Peter Ridd

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Philip Stott

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Richard Lindzen

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Richard Tol

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Robert Carter (1941-2016)

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Robert Mendelsohn

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Ross McKitrick

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Chairman (2015)

Samuel Brittan (1933-2020)

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Terence Kealey

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Vincent Courtillot

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William Happer

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William Kininmonth

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Michael Adler

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Anthony Barrett

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John Carr

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John Dewey

Y

Y

Samuel Furfari

Y

Y

Location

The GWPF was previously located at 10 Upper Bank Street, London, and before this at 1 Carlton House Terrace, London, in a room rented from the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.  According to Companies House, the organisation is currently based at 55 Tufton Street, Westminster, an address it shares with several right-wing, pro free-market thinktanks:⁴⁶“Contact: The Global Warming Policy Foundation,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation. Archived May 3, 2012. ⁴⁷Caroline Davies and Suzanne Goldenberg. “The voices of climate change sceptics,” The Guardian, August 17, 2015. ⁴⁸“Contact,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation. Archived August 17, 2015. ⁴⁹“Contact,” The Global Warming Policy Forum. Archived August 17, 2015. ⁵⁰“THE GLOBAL WARMING POLICY FOUNDATION,” Companies House. Archived February 27, 2019. Archive URL:http://archive.fo/K9Omw

55 Tufton Street

Westminster

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Actions

May 16, 2024

Former Canadian Minister of Finance, Minister of Natural Resources, Joe Oliver, joined the GWPF’s board of trustees.⁵¹“Joe Oliver, former Canadian finance minister, joins the GWPF“, Global Warming Policy Foundation, May 16, 2024. Archived May 21, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.is/3Ngtr In a press release he is quoted as saying that the GWPF’s:

“contribution is especially crucial at a time when governments are spending tens of trillions of dollars globally on unrealistic and dysfunctional programs that needlessly damage the welfare of billions of people, especially those most economically disadvantaged.”

April 5, 2024

A group of MPs accused the UK’s charity commission of acting unlawfully for failing to investigate the GWPF, after the MPs urged the commission in October 2022 to do so on grounds that the GWPF engaged in campaigning activity via its subsidiary Net Zero Watch.⁵²Helena Horton. “MPs accuse Charity Commission of legal breach over climate sceptic thinktank,” The Guardian, April 5, 2024. Archived April 16, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.is/XJ6aa In a legal letter sent to the regulator, MPs argued that delay was leading to “unlawful distortion of the public debate regarding the most pressing issue of our time”.

March 28, 2024

The GWPF published their State of the Climate 2023 report in which the author, Ole Humlum, argued that the main drivers to global surface temperature rises in 2023 were driven by ocean-related phenomena, and not human activity.⁵³
“State of the Climate 2023,” Global Warming Policy Foundation, March 28, 2024. Archived May 6, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.is/jqtui He said: 

“Believing that one minor constituent of the atmosphere (CO2) controls nearly all aspects of climate is naïve and entirely unrealistic. The global climate has remained in a quasi-stable condition within certain limits for millions of years, although with important variations playing out over periods ranging from years to centuries, or more, but the global climate has never been in a fully stable state without change. Modern observations show that this normal behaviour is also characterising recent years, including 2023, and there is no observational evidence for any global climate crisis”

March 8, 2024

Michael Adler, Professor (Emeritus) in Rural Environment at the University of Essex, joined the GWPF’s board of trustees.⁵⁴“Professor Michael Adler joins the GWPF,” Global Warming Policy Foundation, March 8, 2024. Archived March 8, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.is/kjBnO

January 24, 2024

A DeSmog report revealed that the GWPF had registered its lowest funding in seven years, with losses increasing to £150,000 in 2023, the majority of which was due to a £145,000 drop in donations.⁵⁵Sam Bright. “Leading Climate Science Denial Group Registers Lowest Income for Seven Years,” DeSmog, January 24, 2024. Archived February 24, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.is/iHat2

July 3, 2023

A press release announced that the GWPF is moving to an anonymous peer review process in its major publications because “GWPF publications are sometimes the subject of assertive or careless criticism.”⁵⁶“GWPF moves to open peer review,” GWPF, July 3, 2023. Archived July 4, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/XjDfl The announcement also said that the process would be anonymous to encourage scientists, who would otherwise fear being associated with the GWPF, to contribute.

Benny Peiser, director of the GWPF said:

“Adopting this form of pre-publication review allows for more transparency, and for the development of new ideas and perspectives through constructive criticism amongst a wider group of interested parties than is possible in traditional peer review.”

June 27, 2023

A GWPF publication by Paul Homewood entitled “The UK’s weather in 2022: A warm year, but unalarming,” which suggested that the UK’s average surface temperature has not risen significantly since the early 2000, in contradiction to the scientific consensus on climate change.⁵⁷Paul Homewood. “The UK’s weather in 2022: A warm year, but unalarming,” GWPF, June 27, 2023. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog

Homewood said:

“The UK climate remains absolutely benign. The changes we have seen have been small, and mostly thoroughly welcome.”

Benny Peiser, director of GWPF also said about the findings:

“It’s extraordinary that we are ruining our economy in an utopian attempt to achieve Net Zero at any cost, when the UK’s long-term climate trends have remained relatively stable and pleasant.”

May 25, 2023

Frost delivered the GWPF 2023 annual lecture, in which he called for a “rethink of net zero methods […] and timetable,” and characterised the UK’s net zero target as “inevitably wasteful and damaging” due to “completely incompatible political and economic objectives.”⁵⁸“Lord Frost delivers the 2023 Annual GWPF Lecture,” Global Warming Policy Foundation, May 25, 2023. Archived May 25, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/l2hLW During the speech Frost cast doubt on the threat posed by climate change, arguing that while climate change is “one of the many” problems in society, “it is not existential and it doesn’t mean extinction is coming.”

Frost voiced support for efforts to expand UK fossil fuel production, saying:

“We must welcome the Government’s seeming willingness to push gently against the net zero ideology, for example with the proposed Cumbrian coal mine, [and] the opening of new areas for exploration in the North Sea.”

He also claimed that low carbon technology would lower the quality of life for people in Britain, telling the audience:

“In Britain we will soon be making people buy inferior and more expensive boiler technology and driving many out of the new car market if they aren’t prepared to take a punt on electric vehicles.”

Frost argued that a “collectivist intellectual climate” had given rise to net zero policies, and that “governments claim net zero policies will boost growth, but in fact they will reduce it.”

He also argued for a substantially pro-gas, anti-renewable policy agenda:

“We should keep underlining that there is not just a problem, there is a solution. That is gas to nuclear, backed with investment in fundamental research, and taking advantage of technological advances […] we may therefore need to be more dismissive of current renewable technology as an unnecessary complication.”

May 2, 2023

Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson joined the GWPF’s board of trustees, saying that she was “delighted” to join the group which does “a vital job of scrutinising a potentially ruinous groupthink.”⁵⁹“Allison Pearson joins the GWPF,” Global Warming Policy Foundation, May 2, 2023. Archived January 14, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.is/MbyZc

February 24, 2023

GWPF published a report by author Paul Homewood in which he argues that scientific claims that hurricanes are false, and can instead be attributed to more advances in hurricane observation techniques. The report concludes that the findings are in line with scientific consensus from leading bodies such as the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).⁶⁰Paul Homewood. “The 2022 Hurricane Season,” GWPF, February 24, 2023. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog

The report states that: “Globally there are also no trends in hurricanes since reliable records began in the 1970s.”

February 6, 2023

Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott joined the GWPF’s board of trustees.⁶¹(Press release). “Tony Abbott, former Australian prime minister, joins the GWPF,” Global Warming Policy Foundation, February 6, 2023. Archived February 6, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/XEeRH

February 1, 2023

A report from ThirdSector revealed that the GWPF filed a serious incident report to the charity commission after three MPs, Caroline Lucas, Clive Lewis and Layla Moran, complained to the commission about the trustees’ “apparent misconduct or mismanagement.”⁶²Alina Martin. “Climate-sceptic charity reports itself to regulator over ‘dark money’ claims,” ThirdSector, February 1, 2023. Archived February 1, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/4Sxfu

In an open letter written by the MPs in collaboration with the Good Law Project, the authors accused the GWPF on the grounds of funding “politically motivated research” using money designated for charitable, educational purposes. 

In response Benny Peiser, director of GWPF said:

“The Charity Commission has not opened any official investigation into the foundation. It has, as is customary on receipt of a complaint from a third party, asked us some questions about the concerns raised by the Good Law Project. We have responded in full and look forward to hearing the commission’s conclusions.”

January 16, 2023

In a press release, the GWPF criticised a fact-check published by Agence France-Presse that said Bjorn Lomborg had shared “unreliable data” aiming to demonstrate that polar bear populations had risen over the past five decades.⁶³(Press release). “Polar bear expert: Activist fact-checkers are misleading the public,” Global Warming Policy Foundation, January 16, 2023. Archived January 27, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/8wKyt

Lomborg regularly criticises climate policy and claims that proposed climate policies are too expensive and will harm the global economy.

The GWPF cited zoologist Susan Crockford to refute AFP’s fact-check. According to the GWPF, Crockford believes that “​​some polar bear specialists are attempting to cast a smoke-screen over the relevant facts of the matter”.⁶⁴(Press release). “Polar bear expert: Activist fact-checkers are misleading the public,” Global Warming Policy Foundation, January 16, 2023. Archived January 27, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/8wKyt

Crockford runs a blog titled “Polar Bear Science”, where she has questioned assertions that polar bear numbers have been affected by climate change and written that children should be allowed to “leaern about the Arctic without terrifying them with fantasies of climate catastophe”.⁶⁵Susan Crockford. “Allow children to learn about the Arctic without terrifying them with fantasies of climate catastrophe,” Polar Bear Science, October 31, 2022. Archived December 8, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/qYadv

Writing about climate models, which are generated by computers and used to predict the effects of climate change, the GWPF concluded: “​​Empirical evidence like this explains why computer models predicting a dire future for polar bears are worthless: much less summer sea ice does not inevitably lead to a decline in polar bear numbers as these models assume.”

November 9, 2022

Rt Hon Lord Frost (David Frost), former chief Brexit negotiator and Minister of State at the Cabinet Office, joined the GWPF as a Trustee.⁶⁶“MPs and Lords: Lord Frost,” UK Parliament. Archived May 28, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/6aFA7 ⁶⁷“Lord Frost joins the GWPF,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, November 9, 2022. Archived December 18, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/Gsokk

October 4, 2022

Net Zero Watch published a press release titled “In a bad situation there are no good moves: What the UK should (but will not) do to address the energy crisis”, in which it argued that the “renewable energy obsession of climate policies in the last thirty years are to blame for the current over-exposure to natural gas”.⁶⁸(Press release). “In a bad situation there are no good moves: What the UK should (but will not) do to address the energy crisis,” Net Zero Watch, October 4, 2022. Archived January 5, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/VfHVN 

In outlining a roadmap for what the UK “must do”, the release suggested that the government “must admit that the 2050 Net Zero target is now not only unattainable but a positive danger to national well-being” and “should recommit to fossil fuels, giving a clear signal to the UK’s energy companies and to fossil fuel suppliers globally”.

The release also called for “a new fleet of coal fired power stations”, before adding that “public opinion is so confused and poorly informed by low quality journalism in the print and broadcast media, and parliament so ignorant and unrealistic, that we do not expect any foreseeable UK government to have the courage to undertake such actions”.⁶⁹(Press release). “In a bad situation there are no good moves: What the UK should (but will not) do to address the energy crisis,” Net Zero Watch, October 4, 2022. Archived January 5, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/VfHVN  

September 23, 2022

The GWPF published a press release titled “IPCC’s greenhouse narrative is becoming implausible, eminent climate scientist says”, announcing a briefing paper by Richard Lindzen called “An assessment of the conventional global warming narrative”.⁷⁰(Press release). “IPCC’s greenhouse narrative is becoming implausible, eminent climate scientist says”, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, September 23, 2022. Archived November 9, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/CJeXw 

Lindzen’s paper argued that “CO2 is a particularly ridiculous choice for a ‘pollutant’”, that “it’s primary role is as a fertilizer for plant life” and that “unless we wake up to the absurdity of the motivating narrative, this is likely only to be the beginning of the disasters that will follow from the current irrational demonization of CO2”.

Decarbonisation, according to Lindzen’s paper, is “largely irrelevant to climate change, while imposing great and pointless pain”. 

After summing up what he interprets as multiple misunderstandings around the greenhouse effect, Lindzen claimed: “this all leaves us with a quasi-religious movement predicated on an absurd ‘scientific’ narrative”.

September 16, 2022

The GWPF published a press release titled “Rethinking the Greenhouse Effect”, which linked to a report by retired Australian meteorologist William Kininmonth that argued the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has “adopted an overly simplistic approach to global warming and has ended up exaggerating the human contribution to recent climate change”.⁷¹(Press release.) “Rethinking the Greenhouse Effect”, Global Warming Policy Foundation, September 16, 2022. Archived September 16, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/5Qzjs

The report concluded that “changing atmospheric carbon dioxide has minimal impact on Earth’s temperature and climate”, meaning that “efforts to decarbonise in the hope of affecting global temperatures will be in vain”.

September 8, 2022

Steve Baker, Conservative MP for Wycombe, stepped down from the GWPF Board of Trustees on September 8, 2022, a day after being appointed the Minister of State in the Northern Ireland office.⁷²Rich Collett-White. “Steve Baker Leaves Climate Denial Group for Ministerial Post,” DeSmog, September 8, 2022.

July 26, 2022

The Global Warming Policy Forum published a press release following Boris Johnson’s decision to delay a rumoured gas boiler ban by 5 years, shifting it to 2040.⁷³(Press Release). “Boris Johnson kicks gas boiler ban into the long grass after mounting backlash,” Global Warming Policy Forum, July 26, 2021. Archived January 28, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/5VWNB The GWPF release argued that “kicking the detested plan into the long grass” was “a victory for common sense and will be widely welcomed”.

The GWPF also called on the prime minister to “reconsider the poorly designed and extremely costly green home heating plans.”

Global Warming Policy Foundation Director, Benny Peiser, said that the decision marks “the first significant success in the campaign against Net Zero’s astronomical cost burden”. “It is almost certain that it won’t be the last costly Net Zero plan that will have to be delayed, watered down or scrapped as public concern and anger grows.”

July 12, 2022

The Global Warming Policy Forum published a press release arguing that UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to use the UK’s overseas aid budget to meet a pledge on supporting developing countries with climate adaptation funding “will almost certainly make the chances of a successful UN climate summit in November (COP26) even less likely”. The press release also called the provision of climate funds from Western governments an “annual wealth transfer”.⁷⁴(Press Release). “COP26 in trouble as Boris Johnson reneges on climate funds”, Global Warming Policy Forum, July 12, 2022. Archived August 18, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/DcFWk

June 5, 2022

The right-wing Conservative Woman blog published a letter written by Professor Peter Edwards, a GWPF trustee and emeritus professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Oxford, in rebuttal to a Guardian story on the organisation’s funding from U.S. sources.⁷⁵Peter Edwards. “Letters to the Editor,” The Conservative Woman, June 5, 2022. Archived August 24, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/90vaL ⁷⁶Helena Horton. “Climate sceptic thinktank reported to charity commission over fossil fuel interest funding,” The Guardian, May 23, 2022. Archived August 23, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/J1giI

Edwards wrote: “I have become increasingly concerned about the developing costs – not only financial but also environmental – of Net-Zero plans and the pressing need for public scrutiny, serious enquiry and honest debate about this policy. The GWPF and Net Zero Watch are the only bodies carrying out such an analysis, rooted in sound engineering–led principles and assessments.”

May 4, 2022

A Guardian article revealed that the GWPF received funding from the Sarah Scaife Foundation, which has $30m worth of shares in energy companies including Exxon and Chevron, and the DonorsTrust, which has been used to channel funding from the Koch family.⁷⁷Helena Horton and Adam Bychawski. “Climate sceptic thinktank received funding from fossil fuel interests,” The Guardian, May 4, 2022. Archived May 4, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/Zr8wr 

In response, a spokesperson for the GWPF said: “We do not accept donations from anyone with an interest in an energy company. We turn down many offers of funding from people with vested interests. I am not sure this is true of any group on the other side of the debate.

“Donor’s Trust [sic] is a middleman, matching donors to those seeking funding. Disbursements are not made from a homogenous pool of money – recipients of funds know the identity of the original donors. We are therefore able to vet them in line with our funding policy.

“I suggest you also consider what constitutes an ‘interest’. Money that is inherited does not create an ‘interest’, let alone a vested one. The wealth that ultimately created the Scaife Foundation was created at the end of the 19th century and the start of the 20th. It would be ludicrous to suggest that three generations on, it represents an oil company interest.”

April 14, 2022

The GWPF published a press release titled, “Empirical observations show no sign of ‘climate crisis’”. The press release cited the annual State of the Climate 2021 report written by “eminent climate scientist” Ole Humlum, emeritus professor of physical geography at the University of Oslo, which found “very gentle warming and no evidence of a climate crisis.”⁷⁸(Press Release). “Empirical observations show no sign of ‘climate crisis’,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, April 14, 2022. Archived April 14, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/qw1b3 Humlum added: “A year ago, I warned that there was great risk in using computer modelling and immature science to make extraordinary claims.”

The press release also quotes GWPF Director, Benny Peiser, who says “it’s extraordinary that anyone should think there is a climate crisis”, stating: “The habitual climate alarmism is mainly driven by scientists’ computer modelling rather than observational evidence.” 

November 18, 2021

Steve Koonin, Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy under President Barack Obama, delivered the 2021 Annual GWPF Lecture titled “Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters”.⁷⁹“2021 Annual GWPF Lecture | Steven E Koonin | Unsettled,” YouTube video uploaded by user The Global Warming Policy Foundation, November 18, 2021. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog. Koonin criticised accepted climate science on the basis that: “I don’t think the science says what most people think it says […] we see alarming predictions that never come to pass and everybody forgets about them”.

Later on, Koonin claimed that a UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment report was “entirely disingenuous and obscures the whole issue”.

He also said: “There is no climate crisis. This is an issue, we can deal with it in due course, but let’s all relax a little” before adding “precipitous climate action can be much more dangerous than any climate change we can imagine”. 

October 13, 2021

The GWPF published a press release announcing a briefing paper titled “Eco-Fundamentalism as Grist for China’s Mill” in the run-up to the COP26 UN climate summit.⁸⁰(Press Release). “Eco-Fundamentalism as Grist for China’s Mill,” Global Warming Policy Foundation, October 13, 2022. Archived October 13, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/vQRs8 ⁸¹Jun Arima. “Eco-Fundamentalism as Grist for China’s Mill”, Global Warming Policy Foundation, Briefing 54, October 13, 2022. Archived August 24, 2022. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

The GWPF release stated that “dogmatic green policies are a gift to the Chinese Communist Party”. The paper’s author, Professor Jun Arima of the University of Tokyo, argues that “Net Zero climate policies are creating a divided and acrimonious international environment” by “setting the West against the developing world, with the only beneficiary being the Chinese Communist Party”.

The press release quoted GWPF’s Director, Benny Peiser, who said: “The astronomical costs of Net Zero are crippling Western economies at a crucial and alarming time in our relations with China”. 

October 11, 2021

In October 2021, the Global Warming Policy Forum, the campaigning wing of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, rebranded as Net Zero Watch, a campaign claiming to “scrutinise” the UK government’s net zero emissions plans and provide a “clear view of the reality of climate and energy policies”.⁸²Benny Peiser. “Welcome to Net Zero Watch,” Net Zero Watch. Archived October 11, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/waLwc​​

In a post announcing the launch of Net Zero Watch, Director Benny Peiser wrote that one of the central concerns of NZW was the 2021 energy crisis in the UK, writing that gas prices were “going through the roof” while “our domestic shale gas resources [sit] untapped under an absurd government ban”.

Peiser added that Net Zero Watch will “challenge the wild claims of green activists and policy advisers about this venerable and benign technology, which has brought US gas prices down to a small fraction of those here”.

September 7, 2021

The Global Warming Policy Forum published a press release titled “Net Zero Wind: Britain saved by coal – at huge cost”.⁸³(Press Release). “Net Zero Wind: Britain saved by coal – at huge cost,” Global Warming Policy Forum, September 7, 2022. Archived August 13, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/nr2ro The press release calls Britain’s electricity system “a national embarrassment and a warning to the world”, after conventional gas- and coal-fired generators were used to balance low levels of wind energy production.

It concludes: “Power system engineers and other analysts have known for decades that wind and solar power would make the UK electricity grid increasingly fragile and extremely costly”.⁸⁴(Press Release). “Net Zero Wind: Britain saved by coal – at huge cost,” Global Warming Policy Forum, September 7, 2022. Archived August 13, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/nr2ro 

The press release also links to a report by GWPF Energy Editor, John Constable, which argues that: “the electricity system of the United Kingdom is becoming weaker as progressively larger volumes of electricity from renewable sources such as wind and solar are forced into the system by regulation”.⁸⁵John Constable. “The Brink of Darkness: Britain’s fragile power grid,” Global Warming Policy Foundation, 2020. Archived March 8, 2022. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

August 6, 2021

The Global Warming Policy Forum published a press release titled “GWPF calls for pause and rethink of unaffordable Net Zero plans”, citing “the astronomical costs” of Boris Johnson’s “Net Zero agenda” as “the main driver of Britain’s energy cost crisis”.⁸⁶(Press Release). “GWPF calls for pause and rethink of unaffordable Net Zero plans”, Global Warming Policy Forum, August 6, 2021. Archived January 31, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/pfMcB

The press release quoted Craig Mackinlay MP, who said: “I would recommend the government pause for breath before running further and faster to a net-zero electoral disaster based upon uncosted fairytales.”

The press release also quoted Steve Baker MP, a GWPF trustee, who said: “The awful cost of Net Zero is becoming ever clearer […] The PM should now pause all Net Zero plans until COP26 so that we know whether the rest of the world will sign up to similar Net Zero targets.”

July 26, 2021

The Global Warming Policy Forum published a press release criticising “government plans to force households to subsidise the installation of charging stations for electric vehicles (EV) by raising electricity bills”, which it called “the latest plank of the government’s Net Zero agenda”.⁸⁷(Press Release). “GWPF condemns Boris Johnson’s plan for new “subsidies for the rich,” Global Warming Policy Forum, July 26, 2021. Archived February 7, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/jbxRT

The press release quoted Global Warming Policy Foundation Director, Benny Peiser, who said: “It’s quickly becoming clear that the public has been subject to a campaign of deception about the cost of wind power and the entire Net Zero project. Eventually the political establishment is going to pay a terrible price for burdening households with astronomical costs.”

May 21, 2021

Conservative MP for Wycombe, Steve Baker, joined the GWPF as a Trustee.⁸⁸“Concerned about astronomical cost of Net Zero, Steve Baker MP joins Global Warming Policy Foundation,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, March 21, 2021. Archived July 5, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.is/lmRbR ⁸⁹Rachel Sherrington. “‘Brexit Hardman’ Steve Baker MP Joins Climate Denial Group,” DeSmog, May 21, 2021.

April 23, 2021

An article in the Global Warming Policy Forum written by research scientist Roy Spencer disputed the veracity of computer models predicting rising global temperatures. Arguing that: “Just about every climate claim made by politicians, and even many vocal scientists, has been either an exaggeration or a lie,” Spencer claimed that official climate models had been “promoted for the purposes of implementing expensive, economically-damaging, and poverty-worsening energy policies.”⁹⁰Roy Spencer. “Global warming trend is only half of what climate modellers have predicted,” Global Warming Policy Forum, April 23, 2021. Archived April 26, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/uTU9r 

Elsewhere in the article, Spencer wrote: “It matters because there is no Climate Crisis. There is no Climate Emergency.”

April 19, 2021

The Global Warming Policy Foundation published a press release criticising government spending on wind farm subsidies as part of its strategy to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050.⁹¹(Press Release). “‘Obscene’ wind farm subsidies revealed,” Global Warming Policy Forum, April 16, 2021. Archived April 19, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/rkUEq The press release quoted the Foundation’s former Chairman Lord Lawson, who said: “These multi-billion subsidies are not only a massive transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich, but are damaging the UK economy as a whole. This madness has to stop.”

The press release also quoted the Foundation’s Director, Benny Peiser, who described the subsidies as an “obscenity,” stating: “Every time a new wind farm comes on stream, the consumer is hit with a double whammy – a relentless increase in annual subsidy payments to wind farm operators and an annual bill for fixing the damage that is done to grid stability.”

April 13, 2021

The Global Warming Policy Foundation published a paper written by Heartland Institute policy analyst and climate science denier William M. Briggs, which argued that existing models attributing incidents of extreme weather to human causes were inaccurate.⁹²William M. Briggs. “The Climate Blame Game: Are We Really Causing Extreme Weather?,” Global Warming Policy Foundation, April 13, 2021. Archived April 13, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/Xj1N9 He stated: “Models have too much mean prediction error, and unknown but presumably large prediction error of extreme events. They are thus not trustworthy.”

Briggs also disputed the accuracy of observational studies intended to gauge the severity of extreme weather incidents by placing them within a historical context, stating: “The difficulty is that measurements of the past come with more uncertainty than measurements of the present, and often substantially more. This uncertainty must be carried through all levels of an attribution analysis, but isn’t.”⁹³William M. Briggs. “The Climate Blame Game: Are We Really Causing Extreme Weather?,” Global Warming Policy Foundation, April 13, 2021. Archived April 13, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/Xj1N9

The press release accompanying the paper stated: “Attribution studies assume that the weather has been getting worse, yet empirical observations do not support this generic assumption.”⁹⁴(Press Release). “New paper: The Climate Blame Game,” Global Warming Policy Foundation, April 13, 2021. Archived April 13, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/fgl69 

April 1, 2021

The Global Warming Policy Forum published a press release showing the results of a poll commissioned by the GWPF and carried out by market research consultancy Savanta ComRes, which measured public concern about climate change.⁹⁵“Perceptions of climate impacts at odds with scientific data,” The Global Warming Policy Forum, April 1, 2021. Archived April 6, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/5qrRH The poll “revealed low levels of public awareness of key trends relating to climate change and international development,” and found that “there is also a significant minority of the public who say they are ‘not very’ or ‘not at all’ concerned by climate change.”

March 16, 2021

The Global Warming Policy Foundation published a press release which called for scientific advisory policy to be reformed by including a plurality of perspectives, arguing that COVID-19 had undermined public trust in established scientific consensus.⁹⁶(Press Release). “GWPF welcomes Government plans to reform scientific advisory policy,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, March 16, 2021. Archived March 16, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/V5UWL It stated: “Scientific modelling, warnings and predictions based on widely differing assumptions are now exposed as contradictory and flawed as never before. As a result, institutional science advice is haemorrhaging trust while facing the biggest crisis in modern history.”

The press release quoted the Foundation’s Director, Benny Peiser, who said: “The introduction of institutional red teams into the way science is organised and funded in open societies should be the top priority of a scientific reformation after the end of the Covid-19 crisis.”⁹⁷(Press Release). “GWPF welcomes Government plans to reform scientific advisory policy,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, March 16, 2021. Archived March 16, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/V5UWL In another article for the Global Warming Policy Forum, cited by the press release, Peiser explained that this would entail a “scientific paradigm shift” intended to “help to ensure that free nations can avoid repeating similar catastrophic mistakes and disastrous policy decisions based on fallacious modelling and flawed predictions”.⁹⁸Benny Peiser. “It Is Time To Adopt A ‘Red Team’ Approach In Science,” The Global Warming Policy Forum, May 13, 2020. Archived March 16, 2021. Archive URL:https://archive.ph/MQrD9

March 15, 2021

The Global Warming Policy Foundation published a press release criticising BBC programme ‘A Perfect Planet’ which it said “contains multiple factual inaccuracies and gives an unchallenged platform to political activists”.⁹⁹(Press Release). “BBC’s ‘A Perfect Planet’ Contradicts Mainstream Scientific Findings,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, March 15, 2021. Archived March 15, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/IuGN0

The press release quoted the Foundation’s Head of Policy, Harry Wilkinson, who said: “The impression created by the documentary is of ‘radical…out of control’ increases in extreme weather, and this is clearly not supported by the scientific evidence.” He added: “That the BBC are using activists to try and frighten people is deeply concerning.”¹⁰⁰(Press Release). “BBC’s ‘A Perfect Planet’ Contradicts Mainstream Scientific Findings,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, March 15, 2021. Archived March 15, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/IuGN0

The release also linked to a complaint made by the GWPF against the BBC, written by Wilkinson, which stated that the programme’s fifth episode, entitled ‘Humans,’ featured “a consistent bias towards exaggerating the negative impacts of climate change and overstating extreme weather trends”.¹⁰¹Harry Wilkinson. “Re. A Perfect Planet – Episode 5, Humans,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, March 10, 2021. Archived March 15, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/NxKAK Wilkinson also disputed the effectiveness of renewable energy sources, writing: “Wind and solar are not particularly energy dense sources of energy and have particular costs associated with their intermittency and impact on grid frequency.” He added: “If they represented ‘free’ energy sources then we would already be using them to meet all of our energy needs.”

March 12, 2021

The Global Warming Policy Foundation published a press release criticising the government’s decision to block a plan for a new coking coal mine in Cumbria.¹⁰²(Press Release). “Cumbria mining debacle just a foretaste of Net Zero crisis, GWPF warns,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, March 12, 2021. Archived March 15, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/mFKqS It stated that the controversy over the mine “is just a taster of the public backlash the government and MPs can expect once voters feel the pain of the planned bans on petrol cars and gas boilers while millions of homes become unsellable due to Net Zero regulations”.

The press release also quoted the Foundation’s Director, Benny Peiser, who stated: “The irony of caving in to the green mob is that CO2 emissions are likely to rise as the production of coal and steel are increasingly off-shored to countries with less environmental standards.” Peiser also criticised the “self-destructive and largely futile effects of Britain’s unilateral climate policies”.¹⁰³(Press Release). “Cumbria mining debacle just a foretaste of Net Zero crisis, GWPF warns,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, March 12, 2021. Archived March 15, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/mFKqS

March 10, 2021

The Global Warming Policy Forum published a press release which criticised the impact of net zero decarbonisation policies on the British steel industry, stating: “the Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF) has warned that the steel industry and other energy-intensive industries have no future in the UK, as the Net Zero agenda continues to drive electricity prices upwards.”¹⁰⁴(Press Release). “Rising energy prices are killing British industry: UK steel collapse ‘inevitable’ due to Net Zero,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, March 10, 2021. Archived March 10, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/kgmfv

The press release quoted the Foundation’s energy editor, John Constable, who said: “The security of jobs in the steel industry has been sacrificed on the altar of a utopian and incompetent climate policy.”

March 5, 2021

The Global Warming Policy Foundation published a press release which claimed that Theresa May’s government had misled the public about the cost of reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050.¹⁰⁵(Press Release). “REVEALED: The £1.3 trillion Net Zero cost estimate called ‘more realistic’ by Treasury, suppressed by government,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, March 5, 2021. Archived March 9, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/6m4oh An email from the Treasury to then-Chancellor Phillip Hammond, published after a two year freedom of information dispute, said it considered an estimate for the annual cost of decarbonisation by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy as “more realistic” than the government-backed estimate published by the Climate Change Committee: £70 billion, as opposed to £50 billion. However, it said the cost of transition was “highly uncertain”.

An article in The Sun reporting on the disclosure implied this demonstrated the government’s hypocrisy, stating: “It comes after Boris Johnson promised Sun readers earlier this week that he wouldn’t whack them with extra taxes to pay for the promise to reach a clean planet.”¹⁰⁶Natasha Clark. “Brits were misled about ‘true £70bn cost’ of Theresa May’s net zero carbon target,” The Sun, March 5, 2021. Archived March 9, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/oeNnH The article quoted the GWPF’s Deputy Director, Andrew Montford, who stated that the controversy following the email “shows that despite being aware of a more credible higher estimate for the cost of Net Zero, government ministers and officials chose to conceal vital information.”

February 23, 2021

A report for the Global Warming Policy Foundation written by its energy editor John Constable criticised a Statutory Regulation which had come into force in April 2019, making it illegal for businesses to misreport their carbon dioxide emissions.¹⁰⁷John Constable. “A Little Nudge With A Big Stick,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation. Archived February 23, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/xeMod  Constable stated: “Criminalisation is disproportionate to the magnitude of the breach of regulations, discourages entrepreneurial activity, increases business overheads, and creates a legal pressure point for vexatious ‘lawfare.’”

The press release accompanying the report quoted the GWPF’s Director, Benny Peiser, who criticised the Conservative Party for implementing this legislation.¹⁰⁸(Press Release). “Thousands of UK businesses are at risk of becoming “carbon criminals,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, February 23, 2021. Archived February 23, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/JrZsb He stated: “The Conservatives are still widely seen as supporters of entrepreneurial private ownership. In reality they have often pursued a quasi-socialist agenda that puts climate activists first. This legislation is deeply illiberal and a threat to future investment, innovation and economic growth in the UK.”

February 19, 2021

The Global Warming Policy Foundation’s Deputy Director, Andrew Montford, published a paper which criticised the government’s plans to expand offshore wind power to 40 gigawatts by 2030 as part of a “Green Industrial Revolution”.¹⁰⁹Andrew Montford. “Offshore Wind: Cost Predictions and Cost Outcomes,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation. Archived February 22, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/HLX8z The paper disputed that the costs of wind energy were falling, stating: “there is no hard evidence that any change in the cost structure of the industry is under way.” It also stated that: “The country’s future is therefore being wagered on the basis that offshore wind farms are going to produce cheap electricity in the very near future.”

A press release accompanying the paper quoted Montford as saying: “The man in the street believes that wind power is cheap, because that’s what the media reports and it’s what the government tells him, too. But hard data, from audited financial accounts, shows that it’s not true. Environment correspondents and ministers need to come clean with the public.”¹¹⁰(Press Release). “‘Cheap’ offshore wind power claims are false, data shows,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, February 19, 2021. Archived February 22, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/6Hvmm

February 16, 2021

The Global Warming Policy Foundation published a press release requesting that fact-checking website Climate Feedback withdraw criticisms of an article written for Breitbart by columnist James Delingpole, which had cited a report published in the GWPF by science policy researcher Dr. Indur Goklany, after the report was criticised for making false claims about the impact of climate change.¹¹¹(Press Release). “GWPF calls for Climate Feedback to withdraw untrue and misleading claims,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, February 16, 2021. Archived February 22, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/RDXXh 

Climate Feedback had stated: “It is also misleading to call the GWPF post published by Dr. Indur Goklany a ‘study,’ as it does not include any original research nor was it peer-reviewed or published by a reputable scientific organisation.”¹¹²“Breitbart article makes numerous false claims about the impacts of climate change, based on Global Warming Policy Foundation post,” Climate Feedback, February 12, 2021. Archived February 22, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/1LQZR 

The press release quoted the Foundation’s Director, Dr. Benny Peiser, who stated: “Throughout the so-called fact-check, they deceive their readers about the nature of our work and Dr Goklany’s report, building up strawman arguments to knock down. It’s a remarkably unprofessional document in many ways.”

February 15, 2021

The Global Warming Policy Forum published a press release claiming that the government’s decarbonisation policies had driven up electricity prices for low-income families, criticising “the rising burden of the rising cost of green energy policies on electricity bills”.¹¹³Indur Gokhlani. “Impacts of Climate Change: Perception and Reality,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation. Archived February 8, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/vOZKB 

The press release quoted the Foundation’s energy editor, John Constable, who criticised Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Kwasi Kwarteng’s measures intended to offer relief to those experiencing energy poverty, which included the provision of £140 rebates on energy bills for low-income households. Constable stated: “Mr Kwarteng’s measures are wholly inadequate, barely scratching the surface of the electricity bill issue, and leaving the cost of living problem caused by his climate policies quite untouched,” adding: “As the UK shifts towards electric heating to reduce emissions this problem, already serious, will only get worse.”¹¹⁴“Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy,” UK Parliament, December 18, 2020. Archived February 17, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/Xrgqy

February 12, 2021

An article in the Global Warming Policy Forum written by Vijay Jayaraj, a researcher for evangelical Christian group The Cornwall Alliance, argued that hypocritical Western nations, having industrialised using fossil fuels, now sought to deny that same opportunity to developing nations such as India. Jayaraj wrote: “The developing countries must not allow their domestic energy policies be dictated by carbon imperialists from the West, especially those from the Biden administration,” also stating: “To ask India to forgo fossil fuels is suicidal.”¹¹⁵Vijay Jayaraj. “Vijay Jayaraj: Wary of the new green wave, India continues to increase its coal capacity,” The Global Warming Policy Forum, February 12, 2021. Archived February 15, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/BGokn 

Jayaraj also questioned the viability of renewable energy, stating: “India understands the unreliability of wind and solar, and is leaving no stones unturned when it comes to securing fossil fuel reserves for the present and the future. For example, in 2020, the wind sector could not operate to its potential even in the months that are traditionally considered to be best for operations.”

February 5, 2021

The Global Warming Policy Forum released a statement criticising Jonathan Brearley, CEO of energy regulator Ofgem, for failing to warn the public about rising energy prices that Brearley stated would come into force in April, when energy usage had declined. The article quoted the Foundation’s Director, Benny Peiser, who referred to the rising energy bills as “effectively a manifest failure of ever more expensive Net Zero policies,” adding: “Boris Johnson and his government are risking their political survival if they continue to push up the cost of energy, driving millions of British households into energy poverty.”¹¹⁶“Ofgem condemned for misleading the public about energy price rises,” The Global Warming Policy Forum, February 5, 2021. Archived February 8, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/E7ZZp ¹¹⁷Finlay Grieg. “Energy price increase: why gas and electricity bills are set to rise in 2021 – and Ofgem price cap explained,” The Scotsman, February 5, 2021. Archived February 8, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/4sBkp

February 4, 2021

The Global Warming Policy Forum published a report by policy advisor Dr Indur Gokhlany, a press release for which claimed that: “Contrary to popular belief there is little evidence of harmful trends from the impact of global warming.”¹¹⁸(Press Release). “New Report. Climate ‘Emergency’ claims falsified by real-world data,” The Global Warming Policy Forum, February 4, 2021. Archived February 8, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/vOZKB ¹¹⁹Indur Gokhlani. “Impacts of Climate Change: Perception and Reality,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation. Archived February 8, 2021. Archive URL:https://archive.vn/vOZKB

The report, entitled “Impacts of Climate Change: Perception and Reality”, disputed that the impacts of climate change were negative overall, stating: “The detrimental effects of carbon dioxide and fossil fuels are overwhelmed by other concurrent changes that are beneficial.” Gokhlany also wrote: “Most extreme weather phenomena have not become more extreme, more deadly, or more destructive.”

February 3, 2021

The Global Warming Policy Foundation published an article by the organisation’s Science Editor David Whitehouse, which disputed the accuracy of headlines claiming that climate change had caused autumn leaves to fall earlier.¹²⁰David Whitehouse. “Accurate reporting falls like leaves in autumn,” The Global Warming Policy Forum, February 3, 2021. Archived February 8, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/mLxbO

Whitehouse stated: “Now excuse me for being a little pedantic, as scientists and journalists should be, but autumn advancing by 3-6 days over the next 80 years seems to me to be something that would be rather swamped by seasonal variations,” adding: “Can we tell if autumn starts a day earlier after more than a quarter of a century? Could we tell if it started two or three days earlier?”

February 1, 2021

The Global Warming Policy Foundation published a report by “independent researcher and writer” Ben Pile criticising the UK’s Climate Assembly, a focus group aiming to understand public preferences on how to combat climate change. The report characterised the assembly as “hastily arranged” and “shambolic,” stating: “the public is broadly, but only weakly supportive of climate policies. There is no appetite for costly policies that require significant expense and draconian regulation of lifestyle.”¹²¹Ben Pile. “The UK Climate Assembly: Manufacturing Mandates,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation. Archived February 1, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/vyN4F

January 28, 2021

The Global Warming Policy Foundation published a press release calling for the government to “suspend immediately the green levies on energy bills,” stating that: “Lockdown has exposed the UK’s electricity system as both technically and economically weak, due to over-dependence on renewables.”¹²²(Press Release). “GWPF calls on Government to suspend £10 billion green levy on suffering households,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, January 28, 2021. Archived February 1, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/mETGT

The press release quoted the Foundation’s energy editor John Constable, who criticised renewable technologies, stating that: “taking the necessary emergency action in the short run, and adopting a longer-term cost-minimisation strategy will mean admitting that the green policies are failing.”

January 19, 2021

In an article for the Global Warming Policy Foundation, the organisation’s energy editor John Constable criticised the government’s plans to build an offshore wind farm off the Norfolk and Yorkshire coasts, claiming that it would lead to the extinction of the Kittiwake bird. Constable stated that environmentalism was “in a state of physical and moral collapse,” and that environmentalists had created an “irrational fear of climate change.”¹²³John Constable. “Kittiwake extinction risk and the death of environmentalism,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, January 19, 2021. Archived January 19, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/ZpGrb 

The Foundation’s Director, Benny Peiser, also wrote a letter to Sir David Attenborough calling for him to intervene to reverse the government’s decision, claiming that the government had “set aside the protection afforded by Natura 2000 to the resting and nesting sites of Kittiwake on the East Coast,” and that the decision “sets a distorting and irrational precedent.¹²⁴Benny Peiser. “Dangerous precedent of consent for Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm & Kittiwake extinction risk,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, January 19, 2021. Archived January 19, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/QsWcV 

January 14, 2021

Vijay Raj, a researcher for the anti-environmentalist evangelical Christian group the Cornwall Alliance, wrote an article for the Global Warming Policy Foundation criticising the EU’s proposed CBAM (Climate Border Adjustment Mechanism) which would impose carbon taxes on countries exporting to the EU, and then President-elect Joe Biden’s plans to achieve a carbon-free power sector by 2035.¹²⁵Vijay Raj. “EU’s Carbon Border Taxes and Joe Biden’s Clean Energy plans: A double threat for developing countries,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, January 14, 2021. Archived January 18, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/8CRd4 Raj stated that these proposals would “alienate developing countries like India and make them increase their trade relationships with global fossil fuel giants like China,” adding: 

“the CBAM will likely cause industry-level adjustments in major fossil fuel countries like India, which may eventually lead to compromised growth and prolongation of the deadlines to achieve developmental targets. It will eventually impact the consumers and the economy which is already reeling under the impact of COVID-19 lockdown.”

January 1, 2021

The Global Warming Policy Foundation published a press release claiming that the Treasury had initially refused to release calculations of the estimated £1 trillion cost of decarbonising the economy in 2019. The release quoted the Foundation’s Deputy Director Andrew Montford, who described the Treasury’s actions as a “major embarrassment,” and “misgovernance on a historic scale.”¹²⁶(Press Release). “Government ordered to release Net Zero cost calculations,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, January 1, 2021. Archived January 25, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/AXqMf

December 29, 2020

The Global Warming Policy Foundation’s Energy Editor John Constable published a paper criticising the cost implications of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plans to decarbonise the economy by 2050.¹²⁷(Press Release). “GWPF calls on Government to publish hidden Net Zero cost data,” Global Warming Policy Foundation, December 29, 2020. Archived January 5, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/98Wjh

Constable criticised the government’s plans to expand offshore wind energy, stating: “Even assuming, as the government wrongly does, that offshore wind is already inexpensive and will become still cheaper in coming decades, the abatement costs per tonne of carbon dioxide are many times higher than mainstream estimates of the harms of climate change.” Constable also claimed the government’s policies would cause “terrible socio-economic harm.”

In the press release accompanying the paper, the Foundation’s Director Benny Peiser stated:  “The failure to be transparent and honest about the actual costs of its Net Zero plans undermines public confidence in the government’s climate policy.¹²⁸John Constable. “Who are they fooling? The UK Energy White Paper 2020,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation. Archived January 5, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/Opilr

December 20, 2020

The Global Warming Policy Foundation announced that power systems engineer Bryan Leyland had joined the organisation’s Academic Advisory Council.¹²⁹“GWPF/ AEF Webinar: Reforming Environmental Science,” YouTube video uploaded by user GWPF on December 3, 2020. Archived.mp4 on file at DeSmog.

December 11, 2020

The GWPF published a paper by ‘China Watcher’ Patricia Adams entitled “The Red and the Green: China’s Useful Idiots,” which claimed that Western environmentalist groups had been co-opted by the Chinese state, arguing that: “these environmentalists are the Chinese ‘Communist’ Party’s ‘useful idiots’. The Communist government not only monitors their activities in China to ensure their compliance with government policy, it also exercises the ability to direct the agenda that the environmentalists will carry out via the Communist government’s de facto control over the use of funds.”¹³⁰Patricia Adams. “The Red and the Green: China’s Useful Idiots,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, December 11, 2020. Archived December 14, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/HjjOS 

A press release accompanying the paper stated that “western greens have effectively become mouthpieces for President Xi,” and that environmental groups were “controlled and used” by the CCP.¹³¹(Press Release). “Green groups are China’s ‘useful idiots’,”  The Global Warming Policy Foundation, December 11, 2020. Archived December 14, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/114e7

December 10, 2020

Launching a report on the cost of the UK’s net zero target, GWPF director Benny Peiser characterised the Committee on Climate Change (CCC)’s advice to the Government on achieving net zero decarbonisation as “a political suicide note,” stating that their claims were “based on fallacious assumptions and magical thinking that is simply not credible.”¹³²“Committee on Climate Change’s Net Zero advice to government is “a political suicide note,” The Global Warming Policy Forum, December 10, 2020. Archived December 14, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/dS1ix

He said the target “will ruin lives across society, with truly terrible effects on low income households.”

The GWPF’s energy editor, John Constable, described the CCC as “nothing more than a passive and uncritical sock puppet repeating government nonsense.” 

December 3, 2020

The GWPF hosted a webinar alongside the Australian Environment Foundation (AEF), focussing on how to reform the quality of environmental research in Australia, which featured climate science sceptics Dr. Peter Ridd, Joanne Nova and Institute of Public Affairs researcher Alan Moran.¹³³“Bryan Leyland joins GWPF’s Academic Advisory Council,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, December 20, 2020. Archived January 4, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/zc6HN

November 27, 2020

The GWPF’s Deputy Director Andrew Montford wrote a report questioning the cost implications of decarbonising public transport, which stated that: “politicians seem to agree that battery electric vehicles (BEVs) are the way forward, although without apparently having considered the challenges involved.”¹³⁴Andrew Montford. “Cost of decarbonising cars,” The Global Warming Policy Forum. Archived November 30, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/US8CE 

An article accompanying the report quoted Montford disputing the costs associated with electric vehicles.¹³⁵“Motorists face £700 billion bill for going electric,”The Global Warming Policy Forum, November 27, 2020. Archived November 30, 2020. Archive.vn URL:https://archive.vn/pizdu Montford stated: “Several aspects of EVs make them more costly than petrol cars – the need to renew batteries, the time wasted at charging points, the need to find alternative transport when their range is inadequate. That’s only going to get worse as electricity prices soar in future. We could easily see the cost of motoring double. The working classes are going to be driven off the roads.”

November 20, 2020

The GWPF published a press release calling for the withdrawal of a Red Cross report which claimed that climate and weather related disasters were increasing. The GWPF’s Director, Dr. Benny Peiser, referred to the report as “an intercontinental shambles”, stating: “The Red Cross should withdraw its report or face accusations of using unethical practices to mislead the public.”¹³⁶(Press Release). “Red Cross claims of increasing climate disasters is ‘grossly misleading,’” The Global Warming Policy Forum, November 20, 2020. Archived November 23, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/PH0lU 

The press release cited another GWPF press release criticising a UN report on climate-related disasters, which Peiser had described as “an embarrassment” and “a catalogue of errors.”¹³⁷(Press Release). “UN Disasters Report Is A Huge Blunder and Embarrassment,” The Global Warming Policy Forum, October 12, 2020. Archived November 23, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/BGej9

November 19, 2020

A GWPF video narrated by zoologist Susan Crockford claimed to provide evidence that David Attenborough’s 2019 Netflix Documentary film ‘Our Planet’ erroneously depicted climate change, rather than polar bear attacks, as the cause of the deaths of walruses.¹³⁸“New footage reveals Netflix faked walrus climate deaths,” YouTube video uploaded by user GWPF on November 19, 2020. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog. The accompanying press release characterised the film as “a manipulative sham with no resemblance to reality”, and “a false narrative constructed to elicit an emotional response from the public.”¹³⁹(Press Release). “New footage revealed Netflix faked walrus deaths,” The Global Warming Policy Forum, November 19, 2020. Archived November 23, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/QUMCc

November 19, 2020

GWPF Science Editor David Whitehouse wrote an article disputing research which found that warmer winters were linked to greater risks of drowning. Whitehouse referred to stories reporting this research as “another example of specialist reporters of climate change only reading top lines, and not looking at the data of the stories they are reporting.”¹⁴⁰David Whitehouse. “Climate change claim on thin ice,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, November 19, 2020. Archived November 23, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/XM1VU 

November 18, 2020

Former GWPF Chairman Nigel Lawson criticised Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plans to ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2030, stating: “If the Government were trying to damage the economy they couldn’t be doing it better. Moreover, the job creation mantra is economically illiterate. A programme to erect statues of Boris in every town and village in the land would also ‘create jobs’ but that doesn’t make it a sensible thing to do.”¹⁴¹“Lord Lawson criticises Prime Minister Johnson for being ‘economically illiterate,” The Global Warming Policy Forum, November 18, 2020. Archived November 23, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/yWORe 

November 18, 2020

A GWPF article entitled: “Boris’ Green Industrial Revolution is economic lockdown, for ever,” referred to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s 10-point plan for a “Green Industrial Revolution” as “shallow gesture politics, but a gesture with severely negative economic implications from day one into the foreseeable future”, also claiming that “all previous attempts to create a viable green economy have failed.”¹⁴²“Boris’s “Green Industrial Revolution” is Economic Lockdown, for ever…,” The Global Warming Policy Forum, November 18, 2020. Archived November 23, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/y5EcI

The article also quoted the GWPF’s energy editor John Constable, who stated: “These over-reaching proposals are technically absurd, economically deluded and politically disastrous. Does the Prime Minister have any competent advisors? One wonders?”¹⁴³“Boris’s “Green Industrial Revolution” is Economic Lockdown, for ever…,” The Global Warming Policy Forum, November 18, 2020. Archived November 23, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/y5EcI

October 29, 2020

The GWPF wrote a letter to the UK Treasury Committee, questioning the economic benefits of decarbonising the economy by 2050. The blog post accompanying the letter stated that, “the scale of the task, in terms of money and of other resources, made it clear that the Net Zero project was unachievable even before Covid. Now, with the economy severely weakened, it would be foolish to even set out on such a course. To do so would risk setting the country on course to decades of economic stagnation.”¹⁴⁴“Evidence submitted by the GWPF to the UK Treasury Committee“, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, October 29, 2020. Archived November 2, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/PaYep 

October 29, 2020

GWPF Science Editor David Whitehouse wrote a blog post disputing research concluding that September 2020 was the hottest September on record, stating that, “recently there were many headlines proclaiming that this September was the warmest on record. It was from a report uncritically relayed by many. The reasoning behind the conclusion is worth taking a little time to digest as it demonstrates that temperature statistics are often open to interpretation”.¹⁴⁵David Whitehouse. “Was September 2020 the warmest September on record?,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, October 29, 2020. Archived November 2, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/nhQCm

October 12, 2020

The Global Warming Policy Foundation published a press release criticising a UN report entitled “The Human Cost of Disasters,” which commented on “the staggering rise in climate-related disasters over the last twenty years”.¹⁴⁶(Press Release). “UN Disasters Report Is a Huge Blunder And Embarrassment,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, October 12, 2020. Archived February 1, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/BGej9 The Foundation’s Director, Benny Peiser, described the report as a “shambles” and a “catalogue of errors,” citing a tweet by climate policy analyst Roger Pielke Jr, who claimed that the report had misused the source data.¹⁴⁷Debarati Guha-Sapir, Mami Mizutori. “The Human Cost of Disasters,” UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. Archived February 1, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/shPut ¹⁴⁸“It will be interesting to watch the up-is-down reporting on the new UN report on disasters.The graph below is from data in the report (Figure 5, p. 10). It shows that “climate-related” disasters have declined by ~15% over the past 20 years (2000-2019),” Tweet by @RogerPielkeJr, October 12, 2020. Retrieved from Twitter.com. Archived.png on file at DeSmog.

October 12, 2020

The Global Warming Policy Foundation published an article announcing the death of Sir Samuel Brittan, one of the organisation’s founding members.¹⁴⁹“Sir Samuel Brittan (1933-2020),” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, October 12, 2020. Archived February 3, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/6JWUb It cited an article by Brittan in The Spectator which claimed that “enthusiasts for climate action” were intent on stifling free speech, stating that: “Words such as ‘denial’ are intentionally brought into the debate and recall those who deny the reality of the Nazi Holocaust.”¹⁵⁰Samuel Brittan. “Why we must dare to debate,” The Spectator, December 5, 2009. Archived February 3, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/bbsmD

October 8, 2020

The Global Warming Policy Foundation published a press release announcing the publication of How Dare You,” a satirical series of articles also available in book format, by Peter Foster of The National Post which mocked climate activist Greta Thunberg’s speech in front of the UN Climate Summit in 2019.¹⁵¹(Press Release). “How Dare You!” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, October 8, 2020. Archived February 1, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/QclrF

September 29, 2020

The GWPF published a paper entitled, “How Green are Electric Cars?,” which featured a debate between frequent GWPF contributor Professor Gautam Kalghatgi of Oxford University and Auke Hoekstra of the Technical University of Eindhoven.¹⁵²Gautum Kalghatgi, Auke Hoekstra. “How Green are Electric Cars?” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, September 29, 2020. Archived December 14, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/8azjF The paper criticised the environmental impacts of electric cars, stating: “the production of electric cars generates significant CO2 emissions due to the production of the batteries. These use materials such as lithium, nickel, cobalt or graphite, the mining and extraction of which can be energy-intensive and highly polluting.”¹⁵³Gautum Kalghatgi. “Banning The Sale Of Petrol Cars Would Be ‘A Colossal Error,’” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, July 29, 2020. Archived December 14, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/Wjl1A

The press release accompanying the paper stated that, according to Professor Kalghatgi, “since much of the world’s electricity comes from fossil fuels, carbon dioxide emissions are simply being moved from driving electric cars to charging their batteries.”¹⁵⁴(Press Release). “How Green are Electric Cars?“ The Global Warming Policy Foundation, September 29, 2020. Archived December 14, 2020. Archive URL:https://archive.vn/YeqMf

September 23, 2020

In a commentary on the GWPF’s website, Science Editor David Whitehouse discussed a paper published in the Journal of Earth Science, which claims to “provide new evidence for the recent global warming hiatus”. The paper “cast light on the much debated recent hiatus in global temperature”, the post said.¹⁵⁵David Whitehouse. “Global Warming Hiatus Was Real, Chinese Study Finds,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, September 23 2020. Archived September 28, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/ky2FJ

September 13, 2020

The GWPF published a report entitled ‘The Hidden Cost of Net Zero: Rewiring the UK’, which claimed that, “Under pressure from a powerful environmental lobby, politicians pay lip service to the need for drastic decarbonisation of developed-world economies and commit to increasingly unrealistic targets”.¹⁵⁶Martin Livermore. “Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The global picture,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, September 2020. Archived September 15, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/QnCCd The report advocated for eschewing government intervention in favour of market – based solutions to climate change, arguing that: “it is far better to focus resources on developing energy generation and storage technologies (plus, potentially, carbon capture technologies) that industry and domestic consumers would choose without compulsion or subsidies.”

September 8, 2020

The GWPF published a press release entitled, “Britain’s net zero utopia is a futile exercise”, which claimed that, “there is no realistic chance that the developing world will be following this costly approach in the next 20 years or so.”¹⁵⁷(Press Release). “Britain’s Net Zero Utopia Is A ‘Futile’ Exercise,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, September 8, 2020. Archived June 9, 2021. It linked to a report by Martin Livermore which claimed that politicians were under the influence of a “powerful environmental lobby”.¹⁵⁸Martin Livermore. “GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS: THE GLOBAL PICTURE,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 2020. Archived January 28, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/QnCCd

July 31, 2020

The GWPF published a comment article critical of the government’s approach to wind power by  by Gordon Hughes and other authors which stated that, “the UK Government is being pressed by lobbyists to adopt low-carbon policies, justified by reference to CfD auction prices that are patently unsustainable on the terms presented, but which are really a one-way option on higher market prices in future”, taking a sceptical approach to the efficacy of wind power.¹⁵⁹Professor Gordon Hughes, Dr Capell Aris, and Dr John Constable. “Offshore Wind Costs and Auction Price Bids: A Comment,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, July 31, 2020. Archived September 14, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/JF58d

July 29th, 2020

The GWPF published a press release entitled, “Banning the sale of Petrol Cars would be a colossal error”, in which it was stated that: “Banning the sale of new petrol and diesel cars simply means abandoning the possibility of future emissions reductions in this sector by freezing the technology of a vast majority of vehicles running U.K. transport for decades to come”, also claiming that EVs are not capable of achieving considerably lower levels of CO2 emissions than petrol cars.¹⁶⁰Gautam Kalghatgi. “Banning the sale of Petrol Cars would be a colossal error,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, July 29, 2020. Archived September 14, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/1VQBh

July 16th, 2020

The GWPF published a report claiming that, “the UK faces a £200 billion bill to rewire the country if the government follows through on plans to electrify the country’s homes and transport systems. That’s because installation of electric car chargers and heat pumps will push up demand for power beyond the capacity of the existing wiring.”¹⁶¹Mike Travers. “Net Zero: Every Urban Street And Front Drive Will Be Dug Up,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, July 16, 2020. Archived September 14, 2020. 

June 30th, 2020

GWPF published a press release welcoming what it described as “Newfound Realism Among Prominent Green Campaigners”, in which it commended former Extinction Rebellion campaigner Zion Lights for her embrace of nuclear energy. GWPF Director Benny Peiser stated, “It’s great to see these prominent green campaigners disavowing the eco-extremism that has done such damage to the world.”¹⁶²(Press Release). “GWPF Welcomes Newfound Realism Among Prominent Green Campaigners,”  The Global Warming Policy Foundation, June 30, 2020. Archived September 14, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/nmLuL  

Peiser also aligned the GWPF with the views of US commentator Michael Shellenberger, saying that when he says “that climate change isn’t even the biggest environmental problem the world faces, he’s echoing a view that the GWPF has highlighted since our inception.”

June 29, 2020

The GWPF launched Energy Justice, a website that seeks to “highlight how reliable energy access is central to the problems of people and businesses in the developing world”.¹⁶³“Projects,” GWPF Energy Justice. Archived July 3, 2020. Archive URL: http://archive.vn/Yd6yr ¹⁶⁴“GWPF Launch “Energy for Africa” Week,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, June 29, 2020. Archived July 3, 2020. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/QLecR

The organisation also published a new report, titled “Heart of Darkness: Why energy poverty is a security issue” (PDF), arguing that fossil fuels are the solution to energy poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. The report’s author, Geoff Hill, cited various academics who have a vested interest in clean coal technology and the continued use of fossil fuels.¹⁶⁵Geoff Hill. “Heart of Darkness: Why energy poverty is a security issue,” (PDF), The Global Warming Policy Foundation. Archived July 3, 2020. Archived URL: http://archive.fo/iCmre

Hill is a Zimbabwean journalist who spent a large portion of his early career working for Rupert Murdoch’s The Australian and doesn’t appear to have an academic background in climate science or energy policy.¹⁶⁶Geoff Hill. “Heart of Darkness: Why energy poverty is a security issue,” (PDF), The Global Warming Policy Foundation. Archived July 3, 2020. Archived URL: http://archive.fo/iCmre

Subsequently the report was dismissed by climate and energy experts working in the region.¹⁶⁷Zak Derler, Maina Waruru. “African Energy Experts Dismiss UK Climate Science Denial Group’s ‘Misleading’ Report,” DeSmog UK, July 1, 2020.

June 20th, 2020

The GWPF published a press release criticising the Environment Agency for saying climate change may drive future water shortages.  The GWPF said, “there are undoubtedly good reasons why water shortages may occur in future, such as population growth and increased demands. Spurious claims about climate change will simply serve to draw attention away from these very real issues and the failure to expand storage and deal with water leaks”.¹⁶⁸(Press Release). “Environment Agency Accused Of Making False Claims About UK Weather,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, June 10, 2020. Archived September 14, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/x6rVM

June 19th 2020

The GWPF published a press release entitled: “Green Haste Will Trash The Promise Of Hydrogen”, citing a study by its Energy Editor John Constable which claimed that “Hydrogen has genuine long term potential as a universal energy carrier to supplement electricity, but current methods of production are hugely expensive and will stress fresh water supplies. Target-driven haste is already resulting in accidents. Counterproductive and naive policies are compromising the hydrogen future.”¹⁶⁹(Press Release). “Dangers Of Nuclear Energy ‘Much Less Than Previously Thought’,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, June 17, 2020. Archived September 7, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.is/jG7bG

June 17th, 2020

The GWPF published a press release entitled: ‘Dangers Of Nuclear Energy ‘Much Less Than Previously Thought’, which stated that “nuclear radiation seems to be relatively harmless at low levels. If correct, it means that the nuclear energy industry is being grossly over-regulated for no reason at all”, aiming to discredit scientific studies that had emerged in the aftermath of WWII claiming that nuclear radiation was dangerous, even at low levels.”  

Benny Peiser, Director of the GWPF, argued that an “environmental bureaucracy” was attempting to dissuade the government from adopting nuclear energy.¹⁷⁰(Press Release). “Green Haste Will Trash The Promise Of Hydrogen.” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, June 19, 2020. Archived September 14, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/m2gXj

June 11, 2020

The Global Warming Policy Foundation tweeted that the government’s goal of achieving Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050 would mean “Net zero emissions, net zero growth, net zero recovery.”

June 10, 2020

The Global Warming Policy Foundation published a press release quoting the organisation’s energy editor, John Constable, who disputed the effectiveness of renewable energy sources in decarbonising the economy. Constable stated:¹⁷¹(Press Release). “UK Consumers Face £2-3 Billion Annual Bill To Prevent Green Energy Blackouts,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, June 10, 2021. Archived February 2, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/bPA8h

“Renewables have been undermining the UK electricity system for years, with National Grid propping up a tottering system with vast piles of consumer cash. The Covid-19 lockdown has caused a balancing cost surge and revealed this green appeasement policy as unsustainable. The UK’s fragile renewables-based system can barely deal with the expected; a surprise causes a crisis.”

Constable also stated that: “the national interest demands a cost minimisation strategy for electricity, based on gas and nuclear”.

The press release linked to a report written by Constable which contended that: “the electricity system of the United Kingdom is becoming weaker as progressively larger volumes of electricity from renewable sources such as wind and solar are forced into the system by regulation,” a process which Constable described as “systemic enfeeblement”.¹⁷²John Constable. “The Brink of Darkness: Britain’s Fragile Power Grid,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation. Archived February 2, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/45QHW

June 9, 2020

The GWPF published a press release commenting on the results of a YouGov poll on public concerns about coronavirus and climate change, which it had commissioned.¹⁷³“Public Now More Concerned About Coronavirus Than Climate Change,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, June 9, 2020. Archived July 7, 2020. Archive URL:http://archive.fo/KMk46 ¹⁷⁴“YouGov/GWPF Survey Results,” YouGov/GWPF. Archived July 7, 2020. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

The press release focused particularly on the results of the question, “Regarding the overall impact on humanity, are you more concerned about the impact of coronavirus or climate change?” – in which “coronavirus” had the highest number of votes.¹⁷⁵“Public Now More Concerned About Coronavirus Than Climate Change,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, June 9, 2020. Archived July 7, 2020. Archive URL:http://archive.fo/KMk46 ¹⁷⁶“YouGov/GWPF Survey Results,” YouGov/GWPF. Archived July 7, 2020. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

The organisation claimed that the public had “yet to form a strong view about what the implications of Net Zero” were, even though the highest number of votes favoured the opinion that achieving net-zero emissions would have a “total positive effect” on the economy. The press release wrote:¹⁷⁷“Public Now More Concerned About Coronavirus Than Climate Change,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, June 9, 2020. Archived July 7, 2020. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/KMk46

“For a Conservative government that has committed the objective of Net Zero emissions to legislation, and which is now touting a ‘green recovery’, these results could be interpreted as a warning that voters will be reluctant to tolerate decarbonisation policies that hit growth.”

May 5, 2020

The Global Warming Policy Forum hosted a webinar discussing the role of science in public policy, featuring climate science sceptics Toby Young, Harry Wilkinson, Matt Ridley and writer and campaigner Inaya Folarin Amin.¹⁷⁸“GWPF Webinar: Coronavirus, Climate Change and the Role of Science in Public Policy,” The Global Warming Policy Forum, May 5, 2020. Archived December 15, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/0XqUA

April 20, 2020

During the coronavirus pandemic, the GWPF reshared a news story, originally published by Reuters, about how participants from Climate Assembly UK had said that lockdown measures, put in place to prevent the spread of the virus, were a “test run” for ways to address climate change.¹⁷⁹“UK Climate Assembly Calls Lockdown A ‘Test Run’ For Greener Lifestyles,” The Global Warming Policy Forum, April 20, 2020. Archived April 20, 2020. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/fLvtf ¹⁸⁰Laurie Goering. “UK citizens’ assembly calls coronavirus a ‘test run’ for greener lifestyles,” Reuters, April 19, 2020. Archived April 20, 2020. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/KjpRI

In the repost, the GWPF included an original graphic, with the text “Net Zero Like lockdown but PERMANENT” on what appeared to be an image of a crying woman.¹⁸¹“UK Climate Assembly Calls Lockdown A ‘Test Run’ For Greener Lifestyles,” The Global Warming Policy Forum, April 20, 2020. Archived April 20, 2020. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/fLvtf

April 14, 2020

The GWPF reposted an article published on the Koch-funded online magazine Spiked which claimed that scientific forecasting had “never been less credible”, giving examples about COVID-19, health, and climate change.¹⁸²James Woudhuysen. “An epidemic of Doomsday Forecasts,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation (crossposted), April 14, 2020. Archived July 6, 2020. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/qoynr

February 24, 2020

The GWPF posted a press release on their website claiming there could be “astronomical” costs of reaching the government’s net-zero target for the UK economy. Drawing on four papers published on the same day by the GWPF, the post claimed that the final sum for reaching the 2050 target would “surpass £3 trillion, or £100,000 per household”. These estimates have been strongly disputed by policy analysts at Carbon Brief.¹⁸³“Cost of ‘Net Zero’ Will Be Astronomical, New Reports Warn,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, February 24, 2020. Archived February 25, 2020. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/ocScu ¹⁸⁴Simon Evans. “The UK is aiming for net-zero emissions by 2050 Because climate change is “the greatest and most pressing challenge facing the modern world” (UK govt Jan20) But what will it cost to get there? Let’s take an “honest” look at the evidence, shall we? (sources at the end) THREAD,” Tweet by @DrSimonEvans, February 25, 2020. Retrieved from Twitter.com. Archived .png on file at DeSmog.

Introducing the reports, a briefing paper titled “£3 Trillion and Counting” (PDF) was published and authored by Andrew Montford, deputy director of GWPF. The report claimed that attempting to meet the 2050 net-zero target in the way the Committee on Climate Change and National Grid envisaged will “do more harm than good” and concluded by suggesting that renewables “represent a monumentally expensive dead end”.¹⁸⁵Andrew Montford. “£3 Trillion and Counting” (PDF), The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 2020. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

A number of media outlets and other well-known climate science deniers cited the reports, including James Delingpole who, in a Breitbart article, said that Boris Johnson’s net-zero targets were an “uncosted, ill-considered, virtue-signalling disaster” and that the British economy will commit “energy suicide” to reach the target.¹⁸⁶James Delingpole. “Eco-loon Boris’s £3 trillion net-zero scheme will bankrupt Britain, reports warn,” Breitbart, February 24, 2020. Archived February 25, 2020. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/suezN

Charles Moore, a former editor of The Spectator who once said “people obsessed with climate change have a sort of project fear”, referred to the GWPF reports in a piece for the Telegraph, suggesting that it was “time to come clean about the cost of going green”. Other individuals who shared the report included Steve Baker, conservative MP for Wycombe and former chairman of the hard-Brexit lobby group the European Research Group, and political blogger Guido Fawkes, (Baker’s tweet and Fawkes tweet) as well as the Canada-based climate science denial campaign group, Friends of Science, who shared the reports in a Facebook post.¹⁸⁷Alex Richardson. “Charles said some Moore words on #bbcqt. Charles Moore: it’s very very hard to work out what’s true… people obsessed with climate change have a sort of project fear,” Tweet by @alexjrich, December 7, 2018. Retrieved from Twitter.com. Archived .png and .mp4 on file at DeSmog. ¹⁸⁸Charles Moore. “Why become a landlord if you can never evict your tenants,” Telegraph, February 25, 2020. Archived February 25, 2020. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/vrYk9 ¹⁸⁹Chloe Farand. “How the Voices of Tufton Street Brexit Lobbyists and Climate Science Deniers Become Embedded in the Mainstream Press,” DeSmog, September 11, 2018. ¹⁹⁰Steve Baker. “We still don’t know the cost of getting to net zero. In the @CommonsTreasury inquiry on the opportunities of net zero, I began asking the questions. When the committee is formed, I’ll ask for an inquiry on the economic consequences of net zero,” Tweet by @SteveBakerHW, February 24, 2020. Retrieved from Twitter.com. Archived .png on file at DeSmog. ¹⁹¹Guido Fawkes. “Net Zero Emissions to Cost Over £100,000 per Household,” Tweet by @GuidoFawkes, February 24, 2020. Retrieved from Twitter.com. Archived .png on file at DeSmog. ¹⁹²“Link to GWPF Cost of Net Zero Will Be Astronomical New Reports Warn,” Facebook post by Friends of Science, February 24, 2020. Archived February 25, 2020. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/CEBU0

On the same day, the GWPF’s Harry Wilkinson and Benny Peiser made an appearance on Julia Hartley-Brewer’s talkRADIO show to discuss the reports and promote the claim that going net-zero would cost £3 trillion, a situation Peiser said was “bonkers”.¹⁹³talkRADIO. “Government target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 will cost £3 trillion, says new report from Global Warming Policy Foundation. Listen live,” Tweet by @talkRADIO, February 24, 2020. Retrieved from Twitter.com. Archived .png and .mp4 on file at DeSmog.

January 27, 2020

The GWPF released a video claiming nature broadcaster Sir David Attenborough had been misleading the public about the state of the Arctic and the impact of climate change on wildlife populations, in particular polar bears. The video, entitled “Attenborough’s Arctic Betrayal”, is narrated by prominent climate science denier Susan Crockford, a zoologist who has not published any peer-reviewed papers on polar bears. During the video, Crockford accuses Attenborough and his producers of advancing a “message of escalating doom about the Arctic”, claiming that “polar bears and walrus are currently thriving, despite recent sea ice declines”. According to a press release posted by the group, she argues that Attenborough “bears the brunt of responsibility for the recent epidemic of ‘eco-anxiety’ among children and young adults”.¹⁹⁴“Attenborough’s Arctic Betrayal,” YouTube video uploaded by user GWPF on January 27, 2020. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog. ¹⁹⁵“David Attenborough Blamed For Epidemic Of Eco Anxiety Among Young People,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, January 27, 2020. Archived January 27, 2020. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

The GWPF also announced it would be sending the video to all headteachers in the UK, along with a letter “telling them that they are responsible for the mental health of their pupils and that they have a responsibility to provide their pupils with accurate information about the state of wildlife in the Arctic”.

January 20, 2020

The Global Warming Policy Forum published polling on public attitudes to climate change in the UK, with questions pitting “stronger climate change targets” against “reducing energy bills”. The research, conducted by YouGov, highlighted divisions between poorer and wealthier respondents, as well as between pro-Remain and pro-Brexit voters, and supporters of different political parties. A press release about the polling claimed that “working class and Leave voters favour lower energy bills over climate action” and called on the government to “pay more attention to its voters’ concerns about energy prices”.¹⁹⁶“Working Class and Leave Voters Favour Lower Energy Bills Over Climate Action,” Global Warming Policy Forum, January 20, 2020. Archived January 22, 2020. Archive URL: http://archive.md/tvK99

The same day, the Foundation published an article on the El Nino climate cycle in the Pacific Ocean by its Science Editor, David Whitehouse, in which he claimed that the “last decade was the warmest mainly because of what happened in the latter part of it”. He argued that this was “driven by El Nino conditions” and that “El Nino effects are currently much stronger than long-term global warming”.¹⁹⁷“Down And Up: 2019 Global Temperature,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, January 20, 2020. Archive January 22, 2020. Archive URL: http://archive.md/X6vo6

November 27, 2019

The GWPF paid tribute to the writer and journalist Clive James, republishing an essay James wrote for the group in 2017 entitled “Mass Death Dies Hard”. James argued in the essay:¹⁹⁸“Clive James, Legendary Author, Poet, Humorist & Climate Sceptic Has Died,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, November 27, 2019. Archived December 2, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.md/7a2J5

“…this particular area has a knack of raising questions that get more and more complicated in the absence of an answer to the elementary ones. One of those elementary questions is about how man-made carbon dioxide can be a driver of climate change if the global temperature has not gone up by much over the last twenty years but the amount of man-made carbon dioxide has. If we go on to ask a supplementary question – say, how could carbon dioxide raise temperature when the evidence of the ice cores indicates that temperature has always raised carbon dioxide – we will be given complicated answers, but we still haven’t had an answer to the first question, except for the suggestion that the temperature, despite the observations, really has gone up, but that the extra heat is hiding in the ocean.”

The essay also featured in a series of essays called “Climate Change: The Facts 2017”, published by the Australian climate science denial think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs.

November 11, 2019

The GWPF‘s annual lecture in London, entitled “Energy Utopias and Engineering Realities”, was given by one of the group’s newly-appointed trustees, former engineering professor Professor Michael Kelly. According to a press release about the event, Kelly argued the UK‘s commitment to reach “net zero” emissions by 2050 was “beset by superficial thinking that ignores engineering reality” and would be “unachievable without major social disruption”, calling the Committee on Climate Change’s cost estimates “pie in the sky”.¹⁹⁹“Prof. Michael Kelly: Energy Policy Needs ‘Herds Of Unicorns’,” Global Warming Policy Forum, November 12, 2019. Archived November 13, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.md/Xyaqk

October 23, 2019

The GWPF shared a poll on Twitter showing a majority of respondents felt more sympathy with commuters who dragged Extinction Rebellion protesters off a commuter train during two weeks of protests in London than the protesters themselves. The tweet suggested the commuters’ actions demonstrated “people power”.²⁰⁰“People power! Over 60% of the public support the commuters who dragged the Extinction Rebellion protestors off the train.,” Tweet by @thegwpfcom, October 23, 2019. Retrieved from Twitter.com. Archived .png on file at DeSmog. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/i0NvK

October 21, 2019

The GWPF hosted a presentation by zoologist Susan Crockford entitled “The Polar Bear Catastrophe That Never Happened” in which she argued that polar bears are not under threat as a result of climate change and can adapt sufficiently to Arctic sea ice loss. Crockford, a specialist on dog evolution who has never published a peer-reviewed paper on polar bears, has written for and given speeches to the GWPF multiple times in the past.²⁰¹“Susan Crockford | The Polar Bear Catastrophe That Never Happened,” YouTube video uploaded by user GWPF on October 24, 2019. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.

October 15, 2019

The GWPF‘s Deputy Director Andrew Montford wrote an article for the right-wing blog site the Conservative Woman claiming that renewables subsidies were costing UK households an average of £340 each year.²⁰²Andrew Montford. “On your utility bill, the soaring price of green gesture politics,” The Conservative Woman, October 15, 2019. Archived October 15, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/TCPXx The article was based on a recent post by the GWPF‘s Energy Editor John Constable.²⁰³John Constable. “Current Costs of British Renewables Subsidies per Household,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, October 14, 2019. Archived October 15, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/et4bp

Montford ended by saying:

“It’s worth remembering why we are doing this. It’s certainly not going to make any difference to the Earth’s temperature: our carbon dioxide emissions are a tiny fraction of the global total, and smaller than annual increases in China and India. No, we are doing this as a gesture: a way to show our leadership on climate change, setting an example to the rest of the world.”

In August, the GWPF announced one of the editors of the Conservative Woman, Kathy Gyngell, had joined its board of trustees.²⁰⁴Richard Collett-White. “Cambridge Professor and Anti-BBC Campaigner Join Board of Climate Science Denial Campaign Group,” DeSmog, August 9, 2019.

October 11, 2019

The GWPF wrote to the IPCC, asking it to correct “serious errors” in its recently published Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate. GWPF director Benny Peiser said the IPCC‘s conclusion that ocean heat uptake had been increasing was based on a retracted academic paper, writing:²⁰⁵“Serious Errors In IPCC Ocean Report Revealed,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, October 11, 2019. Archived October 14, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/8lNBH

“While the [IPCC’s] conclusion that the rate of ocean heat uptake has increased in recent years may probably be right, the evidence you cite for there being ‘high confidence’ and ‘high agreement’ is rather doubtful due to your inclusion of flawed evidence of the retracted paper by Resplandy et al. (2018).”

September 27, 2019

The GWPF published a report by blogger and retired accountant Paul Homewood entitled “Plus ca change: The UK climate in 2018”. The report rejects findings by the Committee on Climate Change and the Environment Agency that extreme weather events are increasing. The introduction ends:²⁰⁶“Plus ca change: The UK climate in 2018,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, September 2019. Archived September 27, 2019. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

“In short, although it is slightly warmer than it used to be, the UK climate has actually changed very little. In particular, there is no evidence that weather has become more extreme. Heat-waves have not become more severe, nor droughts. Rainfall data offers no evidence thatfloods have become worse either. Neither is there any evidence from past trends that theclimate will become significantly hotter, wetter or drier, or that sea-level rise will accelerate.”

September 25, 2019

The GWPF posted a press release on its website from a newly-launched Dutch climate science denial group called the Climate Intelligence Foundation (CLINTEL), promoting a letter sent to UN leaders that claims “there is no climate emergency”. Several members of the GWPF‘s “Academic Advisory Council” are signatories to the letter, entitled the “European Climate Declaration”, which states: “There is no statistical evidence that global warming is intensifying hurricanes, floods, droughts and suchlike natural disasters, or making them more frequent.”²⁰⁷“European Climate Declaration: There Is No Climate Emergency,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, September 24, 2019. Archived September 25, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/YLAHu

It also said: “CO2 is not a pollutant. It is essential to all life on Earth. Photosynthesis is a blessing. More CO2 is beneficial for nature, greening the Earth: additional CO2 in the air has promoted growth in global plant biomass.”

The campaign’s “ambassadors” include long-running climate science deniers, such as Richard Lindzen, Viv Forbes, Christopher Monckton and Fritz Vahrenholt.²⁰⁸“Brief CLINTEL aan VN-baas Guterres,” CLINTEL, September 23, 2019. Archived September 25, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/MpTPT

A draft of the letter was leaked to DeSmog at the beginning of the month.²⁰⁹Richard Collett-White. “Climate Science Deniers Planning European Misinformation Campaign, Leaked Documents Reveal,” DeSmog, September 6, 2019.

July 27, 2019

The GWPF published a report claiming that electricity prices in the UK could double to “bail out” new offshore wind farms.²¹⁰“British Public Faces Huge Electricity Price Rises To Bail Out Wind Farms,” Global Warming Policy Foundation, July 27, 2019. Archived August 6, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/cS9TW The report, entitled “Who’s the Patsy? Offshore wind’s high-stakes poker game”, was featured on the front page of the Telegraph.²¹¹Victoria Ward. “Electricity bills could double to bail out new wind farms, report claims,” The Telegraph, July 27, 2019. Archived August 6, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/MEnlS

The research was produced by Professor Gordon Hughes, a former Professor of Economics at Edinburgh University who has previously written reports for the GWPF, as well as for the anti-wind energy campaign group the Renewable Energy Foundation (REF). John Constable, Energy Editor of the Global Warming Policy Forum, was previously Director of Policy and Research at the REF.²¹²“Prof Gordon A. Hughes,” University of Edinburgh. Archived August 6, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/pQiUf

July 5, 2019

The GWPF appointed Dr Jerome Booth, an economist, investor and chairman of Anglia Ruskin University, as a trustee.²¹³Richard Collett-White. “Anglia Ruskin University Chairman and Tory Donor Jerome Booth Becomes Trustee of Climate Science Denial Group,” DeSmog, July 5, 2019.

May 11, 2019

The Global Warming Policy Forum published an article by its energy editor John Constable entitled “Is the Long Renewables Honeymoon Over?” Constable argued that the renewables industry was suffering “deep-seated structuro-physical weakness,” outlining problems being experienced in the wind energy industry. He ended the article by saying: “One explanation, the sole necessary one in my view, is that the physics is against this industry, and that the physics is beginning to tell.”²¹⁴John Constable. “Is the Long Renewables Honeymoon Over?” Global Warming Policy Foundation, May 11, 2019. Archived June 20, 2019. Archive URL: https://archive.fo/KbWAU

May 8, 2019

The US-based atmospheric scientist, Dr John Christy, who rejects the consensus on climate change, gave a presentation to the GWPF, a transcript of which was published on its website under the title “Putting Climate Change Claims to the Test”. In the talk, Christy said:²¹⁵Dr John Christy. “Putting Climate Change Claims to the Test,” Global Warming Policy Forum, June 18, 2019. Archived June 20, 2019. Archive URL: https://archive.fo/s2pOy

“The weather we really care about isn’t changing, and Mother Nature has many ways on her own to cause her climate to experience considerable variations in cycles. If you think about how many degrees of freedom are in the climate system, what a chaotic nonlinear, dynamical system can do with all those degrees of freedom, you will always have record highs, record lows, tremendous storms and so on. That’s the way that system is.”

April 3, 2019

The GWPF published a report by Professor Ole Humlum, a Norwegian geologist, called “State of the Climate 2018.” The report claims that the World Metereological Organisation is “misleading the public” and that “since 2016 global average temperature has continued to decline,” according to the GWPF‘s press release.²¹⁶“State of the Climate 2018: Global Warming Is Not Accelerating,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, April 3, 2019. Archived April 18, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/xxBel

An article based on the report was published the following day by Kathy Gyngell, editor of The Conservative Woman.²¹⁷Kathy Gyngell. “Global warming? Only in the BBC’s imagination,” The Conservative Woman, April 4, 2019. Archived April 18, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/wcc9i In the article entitled “Global warming? Only in the BBC’s imagination,” Gyngell writes that “the BBC, whose mission was once to inform, educate and entertain, now has overriding goals – to blame and to frighten. Especially when it comes to climate.” The Conservative Woman has close ties to News-watch, an anti-BBC research group whose predecessor organisation Gyngell co-founded.²¹⁸Kathy Gyngell. “Global warming? Only in the BBC’s imagination,” The Conservative Woman, April 4, 2019. Archived April 18, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/wcc9i

March 19, 2019

The GWPF published a book called “The Polar Bear Catastrophe that Never Happened” by Dr Susan Crockford. Crockford discussed the book on the Glenn Beck Programme the same day and an official book launch is set to take place as part of an annual event on April 10 organised by the Canadian climate science denial group, the Friends of Science.²¹⁹“Polar Bear Numbers Could Have Quadrupled,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, March 19, 2019. Archived March 20, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/78maU ²²⁰““Polar Bears and Solar Flares” – Friends of Science Society Announces their 16th Annual Climate Change Event in Calgary, April 10, 2019,” Cision, February 28, 2019. Archived March 20, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/kt22v

March 11, 2019

The GWPF published a report called “Force Majeure – The Sun’s Role In Climate Change” by Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark, who accepts that CO2 is affecting the climate but believes that “cosmic rays” have a more significant impact.²²¹Henrik Svensmark. “Force Majeure – The Sun’s Role In Climate Change,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, March 2019. Archived March 11, 2019. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog. Svensmark spoke at a Heartland Institute conference in November 2018. In a GWPF press release for the new report, he said:²²²“New Paper: Solar Impact On Climate Greater Than Thought,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, March 11, 2019. Archived March 11, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/jLpYo

“Galactic cosmic rays seem to be very important drivers of the Earth’s climate. But they are mostly being ignored at the moment because they are seen as distracting from conventional global warming research. Science needs to do better if we want to make progress in understanding the actual impact of natural factors of climate change.”

February 27, 2019

The GWPF published a report by Dr Susan Crockford, a zoologist, claiming that polar bears are “continuing to thrive,” while acknowledging that sea ice levels have reduced, with summer sea ice in 2018 being “again at a low level not expected until mid-century.”²²³“New Report: Polar Bears Continue To Thrive,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, February 27, 2019. Archived March 20, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/ZOPys

February 14, 2019

The GWPF published a paper entitled “Transition to Reality: The Prospects For Rapid Global Decarbonization,” which calls rapid decarbonization a “delusion” and questions the feasibility of widespread renewable energy.²²⁴Robert Lyman. “Transition to Reality: The Prospects For Rapid Global Decarbonization,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, February 14 2019. Archived February 27, 2019. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog. In a press release for the report, the author Robert Lyman said:²²⁵(Press release). “New Paper: Energy Policy Needs To Transition To Reality,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, February 14 2019. Archived February 27, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/JdjGC

“To show that rapid decarbonisation is possible, you have to show that the technologies work at scale, that they are reliable and affordable and don’t damage the environment, and that they can be deployed on the timescales envisaged. Advocates of renewables simply don’t even try to do this.”

Robert Lyman runs an energy and transport consultancy called ENTRANS Policy Research Group, having held leading roles in Canadian government departments with an oil and gas remit earlier in his career.²²⁶“Robert Lyman Biography,” ProCon. Archived February 27, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/B3apo

Lyman has written for and given speeches at the Alberta-based group Friends of Science in recent years. According to its website, the group believes that “The Sun causes climate change” and that “Violent weather isn’t getting worse.”²²⁷“Home,” Friends of Science. Archived February 27, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/SJKAu

January 2, 2019

Anastasias Tsonis, GWPF advisory board member, wrote an article for the Washington Times entitled “The overblown and misleading issue of global warming,” in which he cast doubt on the extent to which human activity is responsible for climate change. Tsonis claimed that many other factors are at play, including “extraterrestrial forces” such as “solar activity and cosmic rays,” and argued that other global issues like overpopulation and poverty were “far more urgent problems.” He went on to ask:²²⁸Anastasios Tsonis. “The overblown and misleading issue of global warming,” Washington Times, January 2, 2019. Archived February 27, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/fJud5

“Is [the use of fossil fuels and other pollution-producing agents] enough to ruin the planet by altering the climate system, a system that has undergone major changes throughout the ages?”

Tsonis is emeritus distinguished professor of atmospheric science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee who has focused on the issue of “natural variability” in the climate.²²⁹Jessica Orwig. “7 global warming ‘skeptics’ who are massively missing the point,” Business Insider, October 23, 2015. Archived February 27, 2019. Archive URL:  http://archive.fo/zzOUm

December 20, 2018

The GWPF published a paper by Ray Bates, co-founder of the Irish Climate Science Forum, criticising the UN IPCC‘s “SR1.5” report on the difference between 1.5 and 2°C of global warming. The paper claimed the IPCC‘s report was “deficient in scientific rigour” in a number of respects.²³⁰“New Paper Documents Main Reasons For International Controversy About The IPCC’s SR1.5 Report,” Global Warming Policy Foundation, December 20, 2018. Archived April 24, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/gbZWo

A foreword to the paper was written by Dr Edward Walsh, founding president of the University of Limerick and former chairman of Ireland’s National Council for Science, Technology and Innovation, warning that: “Policymakers should carefully reflect on the significant deficiencies identified in the report before considering implementing its recommendations.”²³¹“New Paper Documents Main Reasons For International Controversy About The IPCC’s SR1.5 Report,” Global Warming Policy Foundation, December 20, 2018. Archived April 24, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/gbZWo

November 23, 2018

DeSmog revealed that the GWPF‘s US fundraising arm, the American Friends of the GWPF, had received $177,001 from donors during the previous year, a significant increase on the year before. Republican donor David Herro, who has also financially supported the Heartland Institute and Cato Institute, was listed as the group’s Treasurer at the time, with Lord Lawson as Chairman.²³²Mat Hope. “US Donors Gave $177k to UK Climate Science Denying Global Warming Policy Foundation,” DeSmog, November 23, 2018.

November 21, 2018 

The GWPF organised an event in the House of Commons to mark the 10 year anniversary of the UK‘s Climate Change Act, which it claims ”burdens consumers with extraordinary costs”.²³³“Ten Years On, UK Climate Change Act Is Harming The Poor,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, November 22, 2018. Archived March 11, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/GIjLv

For the occasion, the GWPF launched a report which blames the Climate Change Act “and other anti-fossil-fuel policies” for worsening fuel poverty in the UK and describes the Act as “history’s most expensive virtue signal”.²³⁴“The Climate Change Act at 10: History’s most expensive virtue signal,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, November 2018. Archived March 11, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/TYbQa

It claims that “rather than solving climate change, the only detectable effect of the Climate Change Act has been to sustain levels of energy poverty that politicians from all parties had promised to abolish”. The report was written by climate science denier Ruper Darwall.²³⁵“The Climate Change Act at 10: History’s most expensive virtue signal,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, November 2018. Archived March 11, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/TYbQa

Former Conservative MP Peter Lilley and current Tory MPs Christopher Chope and Philip Davies — three of the five MPs who voted against the Climate Change Act in 2008 — attended the event.²³⁶Harry Wilkinson. “The Climate Change Act: Ten Years of Punishing the Poor,” Global Warming Policy Foundation, November 30, 2018. Archived January 18, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/o7Yib

October 8, 2018

GWPF advisor and retired meterology professor Richard Lindzen gave the group’s annual lecture at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. During his speech, Lindzen described climate change as “an implausible conjecture backed by false evidence and repeated incessantly” and said the use of renewable energy would lead to a bleak future with “a landscape degraded by rusting wind farms and decaying solar panel arrays.”²³⁷“Great Barrier Reef is ‘not at risk from climate change’ says professor – as he claims global warming ENDED 20 years ago,” Daily Mail, October 12, 2018. Archived October 18, 2018. Archive URL: https://archive.fo/wdhNQ

October, 2018

Professor Valentina Zharkova, based at Northumbria University, gave a lecture to the GWPF entitled “The Solar Magnetic Field And The Terrestrial Climate” in which she outlined her theory that climate change is caused by natural solar cycles.²³⁸“Professor Valentina Zharkova: The Solar Magnetic Field And The Terrestrial Climate,” Global Warming Policy Foundation, November 5, 2018. Archived July 17, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/k7Wew

In June 2019, Zharkova published a study on the subject in Scientific Reports, an open access journal run by Nature Research, which also publishes the prestigious Nature journal, the New Scientist reported. The paper was criticised by scientists for containing “very basic errors” about how Earth moves around the sun and an investigation was launched by the journal into how it came to be published.²³⁹Adam Vaughan. “Journal criticised for study claiming sun is causing global warming,” New Scientist, July 16, 2019. Archived July 17, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/k7Wew

Zharkova, along with her three co-authors, Professor Simon Shepherd, Dr Elena Popova and Dr Sergei Zharkov, published research in 2015 claiming that a “Little Ice Age” could hit Earth in 2020, based on analysis of solar activity.²⁴⁰“Northumbria academic says ‘Little Ice Age’ could hit Earth in 2020,” Northumbria University, July 21, 2015. Archived July 17, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/TlKRA

May 7, 2018

Environemntal NGO the Sierra Club released a set of over 24,000 pages of EPA documents via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.²⁴¹(Press Release). “PRUITT EXPOSED: Sierra Club Secures 24,000 Pages of EPA Emails, Call Logs and Documents,” Sierra Club, May 7, 2018. Archived May 8, 2018. Archive URL: https://archive.li/IxSOr DeSmog UK reported one document was a GWPF invitation to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, requesting he speak at the group’s annual lecture. Pruitt either rejected or ignored that invite.²⁴²Mat Hope. “Climate Science Denial Group GWPF Rejected by Scandal-Hit EPA Chief Scott Pruitt,” DeSmog UK, May 8, 2018.

The initial invitation was sent via the U.S. law firm Lantham & Watkins, which also runs the GWPF‘s US fundraising arm. That subsidiary is represented by Paul Tosetti, a Los Angeles lawyer who registered the GWPF at a PO Box in Delaware. Later, a representative from Midfirst, a U.S. bank, lobbied Pruitt on GWPF‘s behalf.²⁴³Mat Hope. “Climate Science Denial Group GWPF Rejected by Scandal-Hit EPA Chief Scott Pruitt,” DeSmog UK, May 8, 2018.

According to the GWPF email, first revealed by New York Times journalist Lisa Freidmann on Twitter, Midfirst’s CEO is a “good friend” of Tosetti’s and while he said he did “not know the organization”, he agreed to try and “ensure Scott at least received and considered the invitation.”²⁴⁴Mat Hope. “Climate Science Denial Group GWPF Rejected by Scandal-Hit EPA Chief Scott Pruitt,” DeSmog UK, May 8, 2018.

“While there’s nothing controversial in the letter, please keep it in confidence” a Latham & Watkins writes, forwarding a signed invitation by Nigel Lawson for Scott Pruitt to address the U.K.’s premier climate skeptic group.
via @SierraClub pic.twitter.com/jCqCRbOfpn

— Lisa Friedman (@LFFriedman) May 7, 2018

February 21, 2018

Booker wrote a GWPF report titled “Global Warming: A case study in groupthink,” which was subsequently promoted by a range of climate change denial blogs including JoNova, Watts Up With That?, and Climate Depot. Booker also wrote about his study at the Foundation for Economic Education.²⁴⁵“Christopher Booker gets serious about understanding ‘Groupthink’,” JoNova, February 22, 2018. Archived February 26, 2018. Archive URL: https://archive.is/uqe7m ²⁴⁶Anthony Watts. “Global Warming Zealotry: A case study in groupthink,” Watts Up With That? February 20, 2018. Archived February 26, 2018. Archive URL: https://archive.is/JLrdp ²⁴⁷“Christopher Booker gets serious about understanding climate ‘Groupthink’,” Climate Depot, February 22, 2018. Archived February 26, 2018. Archive URL: https://archive.is/1VThb ²⁴⁸Christopher Booker. “Groupthink on Climate Change Ignores Inconvenient Facts,” Foundation for Economic Education, February 24, 2018. Archived February 26, 2018. Archive URL: https://archive.is/Vnb8F

The GWPF released a promotional video for Booker’s paper:

Daily KOS reported that Booker’s report “debunks itself,” pointing to “many self-contradictions Booker makes throughout the report that undercut his contention that climate science is groupthink.”²⁴⁹“Booker’s Groupthink Report for GWPF Debunks Itself,” Daily KOS, February 22, 2018. Archived February 26, 2018. Archive URL: https://archive.is/AVpjG

When Booker introduced his report at the GWPF, he wrote: “Since we’ve now been living with the global warming story for 30 years, it might seem hard to believe that science could now come up with anything that would enable us to see that story in a wholly new light.”²⁵⁰“CHRISTOPHER BOOKER: GROUPTHINK ON CLIMATE CHANGE IGNORES INCONVENIENT FACTS,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, February 21, 2018. WebCite URL: http://www.webcitation.org/6xWjYZNUs

Booker’s statement would suggest the “debate” started in 1987, Daily KOS noted. However, Booker later wrote that “the story began in obscurity in the late 1970s,” making it 40 years ago. He further modified this date when he suggested that Richard Revelle’s measuring of CO2 in the 1950s was what “more than anything else that helped to set the great alarm over global warming on its way.”²⁵¹“Booker’s Groupthink Report for GWPF Debunks Itself,” Daily KOS, February 22, 2018. Archived February 26, 2018. Archive URL: https://archive.is/AVpjG 

The key to Booker’s argument is that a groupthink belief is accepted “without a proper appraisal of evidence.”²⁵²“Booker’s Groupthink Report for GWPF Debunks Itself,” Daily KOS, February 22, 2018. Archived February 26, 2018. Archive URL: https://archive.is/AVpjG

“Curiously, the report notes how ‘countless billions of dollars’ have been spent testing the theory of climate change, including $2.8 billion appropriated for federal research by George H. W. Bush over four years. Billions of dollars of research sure sounds like an appraisal of evidence, but that’s just the first of many self-contradictions Booker makes throughout the report that undercut his contention that climate science is groupthink,” DailyKOS reported.²⁵³“Booker’s Groupthink Report for GWPF Debunks Itself,” Daily KOS, February 22, 2018. Archived February 26, 2018. Archive URL: https://archive.is/AVpjG

November 23, 2017

GWPF published a book by Bernie Lewin titled “Searching for the Catastrophe Signal: The Origins of The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.”²⁵⁴“Searching for the Catastrophe Signal: The Origins of The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,” Amazon.co.uk. Accessed December 4, 2017.

“It was only when the IPCC was threatened with alienation from the climate treaty process that it suddenly concluded “a discernible human influence on global climate,” the GWPF press release reads.²⁵⁵“NEW BOOK: CLIMATE POLICY CART LED CLIMATE SCIENCE HORSE,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, November 23, 2017. Archived with FreezePage, December 4, 2017.

GWPF‘s Deputy Director Andrew Montford, of the skeptical blog Bishop Hill, interviewed the book’s author in a GWPF video (see below).²⁵⁶“The Climate Policy Cart Led Climate Science Horse,” YouTube video uploaded by user GWPF, November 23, 2017. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.

October 30, 2017

As reported at DeSmogUK and the Guardian, the BBC officially acknowledged that GWPF‘s Nigel Lawson “should have been challenged” over the statements he made in his August 2017 appearance on the Today program.²⁵⁷Mat Hope. “Climate Science Denier ‘Should Have Been Challenged’, BBC Admits,” DeSmogUK, October 25, 2017. ²⁵⁸Damian Carrington. “BBC apologises over interview with climate denier Lord Lawson,” The Guardian, October 24, 2017. Archived October 30, 2017. Archive URL: https://archive.is/OGZwU

The BBC complaints units said that the interview had breached editorial guidelines and that Lawson’s claims “were, at the least, contestable and should have been challenged,” The Guardian reported.²⁵⁹Damian Carrington. “BBC apologises over interview with climate denier Lord Lawson,” The Guardian, October 24, 2017. Archived October 30, 2017. Archive URL: https://archive.is/OGZwU

Bob Ward, policy director of the Grantham Institute at the London School of Economics, told the Guardian: “There needs to be a shift in BBC policy so that these news programmes value due accuracy as much as due impartiality. […] As well as taking account of the rights of marginal voices like Lord Lawson to be heard, the BBC should also take account of the harm that its audiences can experience from the broadcast of inaccurate information.”

October 9, 2017

As reported by DeSmog, former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott gave a speech to the GWPF in London. During his speech, Abbott suggested that an increase in carbon dioxide could be beneficial:²⁶⁰Graham Readfearn. “Climate Scientists Attack Tony Abbott’s ‘Misleading’ Speech to Global Warming Policy Foundation,” DeSmog, October 9, 2017. ²⁶¹“TONY ABBOTT: DARING TO DOUBT,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, October 9, 2017. Archived via FreezePage, November 24, 2017.

“Then there’s the evidence that higher concentrations of carbon dioxide (which is a plant food after all) are actually greening the planet and helping to lift agricultural yields,” Abbott said. He also claimed that “other factors such as sun spot cycles and oscillations in the Earth’s orbit are at least as important for climate change as this trace gas – which, far from being pollution, is actually essential for life to exist.”²⁶²“TONY ABBOTT: DARING TO DOUBT,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, October 9, 2017. Archived via FreezePage, November 24, 2017.

View the video below:

Professor Steven Sherwood of the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales refuted Abbott’s claims regarding climate models:²⁶³Graham Readfearn. “Climate Scientists Attack Tony Abbott’s ‘Misleading’ Speech to Global Warming Policy Foundation,” DeSmog, October 9, 2017.

“In fact models are nearly dead-on in predicting overall global warming so far. They don’t predict every detail, but were never expected to,” Sherwood said.

Professor Andrew Pitman, director of the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, also said many of Abbott’s claims were misleading or irrelevant. For example, regarding Abbott’s claim that ancient climate change before humans could mean that more recent changes are natural, Pitman said:²⁶⁴Graham Readfearn. “Climate Scientists Attack Tony Abbott’s ‘Misleading’ Speech to Global Warming Policy Foundation,” DeSmog, October 9, 2017.

“This is misleading. The fact that climate changed in the past due to cause ‘A’ does not mean it can only change through cause ‘A.’

“The fact is that it is changing now due to increasing CO2 on very rapid time scales. When climate changed in the past more slowly, it still caused mass extinctions. Not a happy thought!”

The claim that increased CO2 concentrations would also be beneficial was also misleading, according to Pitman. While increased CO2 levels could result in bigger plants, “the nutrients in the plant decline.”²⁶⁵Graham Readfearn. “Climate Scientists Attack Tony Abbott’s ‘Misleading’ Speech to Global Warming Policy Foundation,” DeSmog, October 9, 2017.

“So you do not actually get more food,” said Pitman, “you just get a bigger plant, so it’s a myth that higher CO2 helps lift yields, in the sense that those yields reflect food.”

August 10, 2017

The GWPF‘s Nigel Lawson appeared on BBC Radio 4 in a five-minute-long interview, asked to respond to an earlier interview with Al Gore where Gore had introduced his new film. Carbon Brief reported that Lawson, who has appeared on the program before, made several inaccurate claims during the interview.²⁶⁶“10/08/2017,” BBC Radio 4. Archived August 14, 2017. Archived .mp3 on file at DeSmog. (Lawson begins at 2:33:25).

According to the transcript, via Carbon Brief, Lawson claimed that England had some of the highest energy costs in the world:²⁶⁷“Factcheck: Lord Lawson’s inaccurate claims about climate change on BBC Radio 4,” Carbon Brief, August 10, 2017. Archived August 14, 2017. Archive URL: https://archive.is/W75P2

Webb: What do you make of that point? That people like you, who have been saying the costs are too great, are now on the back foot, because the costs of doing what Al Gore wants us to do are fast reducing.

Lawson: Well, look, the point is not, just the costs – although we do have in this country, in England, one of the highest energy costs in the world, which is very hard on the poor and hard on business and industry, which is because of our absurd climate-driven energy policy. The energy in – renewable energy, so-called – is heavily subsidised, and, if they say it’s economic, well then, let’s get rid of the subsidies…[crosstalk]”

Carbon Brief noted that England has some of the lowest gas prices in the EU, based on data from the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), as well as below-average domestic electricity prices.²⁶⁸“Factcheck: Lord Lawson’s inaccurate claims about climate change on BBC Radio 4,” Carbon Brief, August 10, 2017. Archived August 14, 2017. Archive URL: https://archive.is/W75P2

Lawson disputed points on fossil fuel subsidies:²⁶⁹“Factcheck: Lord Lawson’s inaccurate claims about climate change on BBC Radio 4,” Carbon Brief, August 10, 2017. Archived August 14, 2017. Archive URL: https://archive.is/W75P2

Webb: But the point Al Gore makes is that we subsidise all energy, including fossil fuels…[crosstalk]

Lawson: No, we don’t. That’s not true. We tax fossil fuel energy. Anyway, we subsidise renewable energy. But the main point is that the conventional energy is reliable and cheaper, and that is important. What is the reason for Al Gore, I listened to the interview you had with him, and he was talking complete nonsense. I’m not surprised that his new film bombed completely, it’s a complete fiasco…”

Lawson said that the section on Extreme weather in Al Gore’s interview was “nonsense”:²⁷⁰“Factcheck: Lord Lawson’s inaccurate claims about climate change on BBC Radio 4,” Carbon Brief, August 10, 2017. Archived August 14, 2017. Archive URL: https://archive.is/W75P2

Webb: Which bit of [Gore’s interview] was nonsense?

Lawson: What?

Webb: Which bit…

Lawson: For example, he said that, er, there had been a growing increase, which had been continuing, in the extreme weather events. There hasn’t been. All the experts say there haven’t been. The IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is sort of the voice of the consensus, concedes that there has been no increase in extreme weather events. Extreme weather events have always happened. They come and go. And some kinds of extreme weather events of a particular time increase, whereas others, like tropical storms, diminish…

Climate Feedback also analyzed Lawson’s statements. With regards to his claims on extreme weather, they consulted Andreas Prein of the National Center for Atmospheric Research who said, “This is a false statement since the IPCC AR5 even states in its Summary for Policymakers that ‘Human influence has been detected [… ] in changes in some climate extremes’. […]” (View their full review of Lawson’s claim here.)²⁷¹“BBC Today airs false statements by Lord Lawson in the name of balance,” Climate Feedback, August 10, 2017. Archived August 14, 2017. Archive URL: https://archive.is/oZd4p ²⁷²“Some extreme weather events are clearly becoming more common, in contrast to Lord Lawson’s claim,” Climate Feedback, August 10, 2017. Archived August 14, 2017. Archive URL: https://archive.is/VCsug

On the global temperature record, Lawson had this to say:²⁷³“BBC Today airs false statements by Lord Lawson in the name of balance,” Climate Feedback, August 10, 2017. Archived August 14, 2017. Archive URL: https://archive.is/oZd4p

“And as for the temperature itself, it is striking, [Gore] made his previous film 10 years ago and—according, again, to the official figures—during this past 10 years, if anything, mean global temperature, average world temperature, has slightly declined.”

As DeSmog UK reported, the Global Warming Policy Foundation shared what it later admitted was an “erroneous” temperature dataset to support Lawson’s claim. GWPF later Tweeted that it was “happy to correct the record” and since removed the tweet after a request by climate scientist Ed Hawkins.²⁷⁴Kyla Mandel. “Climate Science Denial Group GWPF Admits It Used False Temperature Graph,”DeSmog UK, August 14, 2017.

June 1, 2017

GWPF sent out a press release shortly after Donald Trump announced withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement in which it included the following statements by GWPF director Benny Peiser and chairman Lord Lawson.²⁷⁵(Press Release). “GWPF: Failure Of Paris Climate Deal Was Inevitable,” GWPF, June 1, 2017. ²⁷⁶Mat Hope. “How the UK’s Climate Science Deniers (and Government) Reacted to Trump’s Paris Agreement Withdrawal,” DeSmog UK, June 2, 2017.

Benny Peiser said:²⁷⁷(Press Release). “GWPF: Failure Of Paris Climate Deal Was Inevitable,” GWPF, June 1, 2017.

“The Paris climate agreement was pushed through against the declared will of America’s elected representatives. US leaders and critics had warned international leaders repeatedly that the US Senate rejected Obama’s deal and that a Republican president would shred it to pieces. Now the Paris accord faces the same fate as the Kyoto Protocol which also ended in failure.”

Lord Lawson said:²⁷⁸(Press Release). “GWPF: Failure Of Paris Climate Deal Was Inevitable,” GWPF, June 1, 2017.

“US industry already enjoys a huge energy cost advantage over the UK and other EU countries, so the US move can only make things harder for us in Europe. The next government must take a long, hard, look at whether we can afford our own Climate Change Act any longer. It is clear that the costs imposed on British businesses and households are now entirely unsustainable.”

December 11, 2016

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) released a new report (PDF) claiming that Britain’s Climate Change Act would cost £319 billion.²⁷⁹(Press Release). “REPORT REVEALS £300 BILLION COST OF BRITAIN’S CLIMATE CHANGE ACT,” Global Warming Policy Foundation, December 11, 2016. Archived December 19, 2016. Archive URL: https://archive.is/9xjrp ²⁸⁰Peter Lilley. “£300 BILLION: The cost of the Climate Change Act,” Global Warming Policy Foundation, December, 2016. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

“Britain has been gulled by false assurances that decarbonising our economy would be costless into signing up to a stupendous bill of over £300 billion up to 2030,” said Peter Lilley MP, the study’s author. Lilley had voted against the Act in 2008.

According to the GWPF press release, “the Government can no longer be complacent about the rising cost of Britain’s unilateral climate policies.”²⁸¹(Press Release). “REPORT REVEALS £300 BILLION COST OF BRITAIN’S CLIMATE CHANGE ACT,” Global Warming Policy Foundation, December 11, 2016. Archived December 19, 2016. Archive URL: https://archive.is/9xjrp

Lilley contends that the costs of the act have been concealed. ““A sensible debate,” Lilley writes, “has been averted by pretending that the Climate Change Act is virtually costless, that there are not more cost-effective ways of meeting these targets and that the climate risks averted are imminent, not centuries hence.”²⁸²Simon Evans. “UK Climate Change Act: Understanding the costs and benefits,” Carbon Brief, December 16, 2016. Archived December 19, 2016. Archive URL: https://archive.is/u8tBC

Carbon Brief outlined the path of the report, noting that it was first reported on by the Mail on Sunday’s David Rose, who appeared the next day on GWPF TV to note he was “proud to be a friend” of GWPF. It was subsequently shared in a Telegraph editorial that claimed that the cost of meeting UK‘s climate goals was “not possibly sustainable.” It was also promoted by climate change denier Matt Ridley in his regular Times column, which did not note his position on the GWPF‘s academic advisory board. Carbon Brief writes that the connection had been edited out of a letter to the Times prior to publication.²⁸³Simon Evans. “UK Climate Change Act: Understanding the costs and benefits,” Carbon Brief, December 16, 2016. Archived December 19, 2016. Archive URL: https://archive.is/u8tBC ²⁸⁴“Hot air: Bombshell report shows green levies backed by government will cost the economy £319bn by 2030,” The Mail on Sunday, December 11, 2016. Archived December 19, 2016. Archive URL: https://archive.is/tVErW ²⁸⁵“DAVID WHITEHOUSE & DAVID ROSE DISCUSS REACTIONS TO GLOBAL COOLING POST–EL NINO,” Global Warming Policy Forum, December 12, 2016. Archived December 19, 2016. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog. Archive URL: https://archive.is/7qdWV#selection-471.0-471.78 ²⁸⁶Leo Hickman. “Telegraph editorial describing LIlley’s report as a ‘study’, rather than a non-peer-reviewed report for climate sceptic lobby group GPWF,” tweet from user @LeoHickman, December 11, 2016. Retrieved from twitter.com. Archived October 18, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/9YeTp ²⁸⁷Matt Ridley. “Climate Change Act has cost us the earth,” The Times, December 12, 2016. Archive URL: https://archive.is/RB3vN

A final website to cite the paper was the right-wing Breitbart, where James Delingpole used it as support for climate policy being “Pointless.” Carbon Brief noted that Delingpole had sat down with Rose at the GWPF‘s annual lecture, which was given by Ridley.²⁸⁸James Delingpole. “Delingpole: The £300 Billion Climate Change Act is Costing Britain the Earth,” Breitbart, December 13, 2016. Archived December 19, 2016. Archive URL:https://archive.is/ALd3Y

October 17, 2016

At the Annual GWPF Lecture at The Royal Society in London, Matt Ridley accused Professor Ranga Myneni of Boston University and his 31 co-authors of delaying publication of a paper in order to avoid it being taking into account by the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.²⁸⁹“MATT RIDLEY: GLOBAL WARMING VERSUS GLOBAL GREENING,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, October 18, 2016. Archived October 20, 2016. Archive URL: https://archive.is/nD0fM ²⁹⁰“Greening of the Earth and its drivers,” Nature Climate Change, 6, 791–795 (2016). Archived October 20, 2016. Archive URL: https://archive.is/KAyu2

The Independent reported that climate scientist Michael Mann responded to the lecture by accusing Lord Ridley of buying “into the sort of conspiratorial thinking uttered by Donald Trump.” Mann also criticized the Royal Society for allowing the presentation:²⁹¹Ian Johnston. “Royal Society accused of allowing ‘anti-scientific coal baron’ to preach benefits of global warming,” The Independent, October 20, 2016. Archive URL: https://archive.is/529l1

“The Royal Society’s decision to host the speech was ‘presumably as a gesture of ‘open-mindedness’’, Professor Mann told The Independent.

“The motto of the Royal Society is ‘Nullius in verba’, which translates to ‘take nobody’s word for it’. It is an affirmation of legitimate scepticism, but not the sort of pseudo-sceptical, anti-scientific, bad-faith contrarianism displayed by the Matt Ridleys of the world,” he added.²⁹²Ian Johnston. “Royal Society accused of allowing ‘anti-scientific coal baron’ to preach benefits of global warming,” The Independent, October 20, 2016. Archive URL: https://archive.is/529l1

Mann also said that Matt Ridley’s suggestion that scientists were deliberately exaggerating the danger of climate change was “classic projection”:²⁹³Ian Johnston. “Royal Society accused of allowing ‘anti-scientific coal baron’ to preach benefits of global warming,” The Independent, October 20, 2016. Archive URL: https://archive.is/529l1

“It is the technique of accusing your ‘opponent’ of doing the very same thing you are doing, in the hope of confusing honest observers and deflecting attention from the awful things you are doing,” he said.

“Matt Ridley is a coal baron who profits directly from the sale of fossil fuel reserves while the rest of us suffer the consequences. You couldn’t invent a better climate-change-denier villain.”

Video of Ridley’s presentation below.

According to Ridley’s lecture:

“Myneni’s results, however, remained unpublished. I was puzzled by this. Then I realized that one of the IPCC’s periodic assessment reports was in preparation, and that probably Dr Myneni and colleagues might delay the publication of their results until after that report was published, lest ‘the skeptics have a field day’ with it.

That last phrase, by the way, is from one of the Climategate emails, the one on 22 September 1999 in which Dr Michael Mann approves the deletion of inconvenient data.

Sure enough, Myneni’s results were eventually published three years later in April 2016 in a paper in Nature Climate Change, with 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries – when the IPCC report was safely in the public domain and the great Paris climate jamboree was over.”

Bob Ward of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science notes that this is a serious allegation against Professor Myneni and his co-authors. However, he also notes that “Viscount Ridley misrepresented Professor Myneni’s work in order to make this claim.”²⁹⁴“False allegations by climate change ‘sceptic’,” Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. Archive URL: https://archive.is/wTtyo

Ward notes that Matt Ridley had stated in his lecture that he had first heard of Professor Myneni’s work in December, 2012, by someone who directed him to a video of a lecture that was delivered on 19 July 2012.²⁹⁵“Ranga Myneni 2012,” YouTube Video uploaded by user NASA Earth Exchange, May 12, 2016. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.

The original video Ridley referred to showed that Myneni was reporting 20.5% of the Earth’s vegetated land had ‘greened’ — Something that Ridley himself had indicated in a January 4, 2013 article in the Wall Street Journal.²⁹⁶Matt Ridley. “How Fossil Fuels Have Greened the Planet,” The Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2013. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog. Archive URL: https://archive.is/jKjOg

Ridley claimed to have reproduced two slides from that July 2012 lecture showing the main results. Ridley claimed that Myneni had found that 31% of the Earth’s vegetated land had ‘greened’ between 1982 and 2011, and that there had been an increase in gross productivity by 14%, about half of which could be attributed to carbon dioxide fertilization.

Ward notes that, in Professor Myneni’s video, this is not the case. The video clearly shows Myneni reporting 20.5% of the Earth’s vegetated land had ‘greened’ (As Ridley reported in the Wall Street Journal). In additionl, the slides Ridley reproduced were not from the July 2012 lecture, but rather from a different lecture delivered at a meeting on July 4 – 5, 2013 (PDF).²⁹⁷“The Greening Earth: Probing Vegetation Conference From Past to Future” (PDF), July, 2013. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

In addition, Ridley does not make it clear that Myneni had suggested that 42% of the 14% increase in annual productivity “can be attributed to relaxation of climatic constraints to plant growth,” with “57% to other ‘anthropogenic factors’,” whereas the paper published in the journal ‘Nature Climate Change’ in April 2016 did not present a figure for annual productivity, instead concluding that 25% to 50% of the Earth’s vegetated area had greened, with about 70% of this trend attributable to carbon dioxide fertilization.²⁹⁸“False allegations by climate change ‘sceptic’,” Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. Archive URL: https://archive.is/wTtyo

Ward writes:

“Crucially Viscount Ridley also failed to mention that Professor Myneni states clearly at about 42 minutes during his recorded 2012 lecture that “The attribution to fertilisation is somewhat speculative and not on very solid ground and we have to further refine this before this paper goes out to publication”.

“Hence, despite Viscount Ridley’s false claims, it is clear that Professor Myneni presented only preliminary results in July 2012, and so there is no justification for the allegation that he and his co-authors delayed publication in order to avoid its inclusion in the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Indeed, it appears that Viscount Ridley obscured the truth about Professor Myneni’s work by showing slides from his July 2013 lecture, but claiming they were part of his earlier 2012 lecture.”²⁹⁹“False allegations by climate change ‘sceptic’,” Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. Archive URL: https://archive.is/wTtyo

Ward also notes that, to be considered for contribution by the IPCC working group I to the Fifth Assessment Report, papers had to be submitted by no later than July 31, 2012 and accepted by March 15, 2015 (PDF). Professor Myneni’s preliminary results were presented on July 19, 2012—just 12 days before the deadline for submission—and his July 2013 lecture was long past the cutoff date.³⁰⁰“Cut-Off Dates for literature to be considered for AR5” (PDF), IPCC.ch. Updated December 12, 2012. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

Notably working group I’s report, Published in September 2013, does explicitly address the issue of carbon fertilization (pages 501-2, Chapter 6 — PDF):

“Warming (and possibly the CO2 fertilisation effect) has also been correlated with global trends in satellite greenness observations, which resulted in an estimated 6% increase of global NPP, or the accumulation of 3.4 PgC on land over the period 1982–1999 (Nemani et al., 2003).”³⁰¹“Carbon and Other Biogeochemical Cycles” (PDF), IPCC.ch. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

Despite this, Ridley chooses to ignore the contribution of IPCC working group I. According to Ward, It is apparent, therefore, that the allegations Viscount Ridley made against Professor Myneni and his co-authors, and against Professor Betts, are entirely untrue and based on misrepresentations of the facts.” Myneni published a statement directly refuting the allegations Ridley made against him.³⁰²“Vegetation Remote Sensing & Climate Research,” Boston University Department of Earth and Environment. Archived October 20, 2016. Archive URL: https://archive.is/EwfCQ 

Despite this, Ridley since published another artilce in The Spectator titled “The world is getting greener. Why does no one want to know?” based on his original GWPF lecture:³⁰³Matt Ridley. “The world is getting greener. Why does no one want to know?” The Spectator, October 22, 2016. Archive URL: https://archive.is/b8B7c 

“Global greening is the name given to a gradual, but large, increase in green vegetation on the planet over the past three decades. The climate change lobby is keen to ensure that if you hear about it at all, you hear that it is a minor thing, dwarfed by the dangers of global warming. Actually, it could be the other way round: greening is a bigger effect than warming,” Ridley writes.

March 30, 2016

The Global Warming Policy Foundation called on the government to scrap the 5th Carbon Budget, intended to achieve a 57% reduction in the UK’s annual emissions between 2028 and 2032, and Britain’s Carbon price floor, a carbon tax intended to disincentivise fossil fuel investments.³⁰⁴“UK Steel Crisis: GWPF Calls On Government To Scrap Unilateral Climate Policies,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, March 30, 2016. Archived March 9, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/jdu33 ³⁰⁵Sam Fankhauser. “What are Britain’s carbon budgets?” Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, April 30, 2020. Archived March 9, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/RxmFL

The post quoted the Foundation’s Director, Benny Peiser, who said: “Energy intensive industries – including UK steel – are facing a growing competitiveness crisis. Britain’s unilateral climate policies are racking up electricity prices and are adding to the cost burden.”

February 3, 2016

The Independent revealed that a number of inter-related groups, many with direct connections to the “Brexit” movement, all share a 55 Tufton Street address with the Global Warming Policy Foundation:³⁰⁶“The address where Eurosceptics and climate change sceptics rub shoulders,” The Independent, February 10, 2016. Archive URL: https://archive.is/Dp4D4

• Global Warming Policy Foundation
• Global Vision
• The European Foundation
• Civitas
• Taxpayers’ Alliance
• Business for Britain
• Big Brother Watch
• UK2020

DeSmogUK tracked the connections between climate science deniers and those compaigning for Britain to leave the European Union, and created the interactive map below.³⁰⁷Kyla Mandel. “Mapped: The Cosy Climate-Euro Sceptic Bubble Pushing for Brexit and Less Climate Action,” DeSmog UK, June 13, 2106.

(Zoom in and out to see the web of relationships between the residents of 55 Tufton Street and its neighbours. Hover over the lines to see the type of relationship between the two entities, and click on the person or organisation’s name to find out more (this will open up a new tab where you can find out more information about all of this entity’s various relationships and stance on climate change):

December, 2015

An undercover Greenpeace investigation revealed details on the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s peer review process. Professor William Happer, who sits on the Academic Advisory Council of the GWPF, was asked by undercover reporters if he could put a (fictional) oil-industry-funded report through the same peer review process as previous GWPF foundation reports that had been called “thoroughly peer reviewed.”³⁰⁸Lawrence Carter and Maeve McClenaghan. “Exposed: Academics-for-hire agree not to disclose fossil fuel funding,” GreenPeace EnergyDesk, December 8, 2015. WebCiteURL: http://www.webcitation.org/6deZxlWnq

Happer said the GWPF‘s peer review process consisted of members of the Advisory Council and other selected scientists reviewing the work, rather than presenting it to an academic journal.

“I would be glad to ask for a similar review for the first drafts of anything I write for your client. Unless we decide to submit the piece to a regular journal, with all the complications of delay, possibly quixotic editors and reviewers that is the best we can do, and I think it would be fine to call it a peer review,” Happer wrote in an email to undercover reporters.³⁰⁹Lawrence Carter and Maeve McClenaghan. “Exposed: Academics-for-hire agree not to disclose fossil fuel funding,” GreenPeace EnergyDesk, December 8, 2015. WebCiteURL: http://www.webcitation.org/6deZxlWnq

While Happer claimed that the review of the paper was “more rigorous than the peer review for most journals,” he also told undercover reports that most members of the Academic Advisory Council were too busy to comment:

“I know that the entire scientific advisory board of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) was asked to submit comments on the first draft. I am also sure that most were too busy to respond,” he said.³¹⁰Lawrence Carter and Maeve McClenaghan. “Exposed: Academics-for-hire agree not to disclose fossil fuel funding,” GreenPeace EnergyDesk, December 8, 2015. WebCiteURL: http://www.webcitation.org/6deZxlWnq

Happer also noted the challenges in submitting a paper promoting CO2 benefits to a more mainstream journal would be a challenge:

“That might greatly delay publication and might require such major changes in response to referees and the journal editor that the article would no longer make the case that CO2 is a benefit, not a pollutant, as strongly as I would like, and presumably as strongly [as] your client would also like,” he said.³¹¹Lawrence Carter and Maeve McClenaghan. “Exposed: Academics-for-hire agree not to disclose fossil fuel funding,” GreenPeace EnergyDesk, December 8, 2015. WebCiteURL: http://www.webcitation.org/6deZxlWnq

View the entire email interchange between undercover journalists and William Happer here.

July 2015

Internal documents released under the Freedom of Information Act show that the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) may have been “wasting taxpayers’ money through the inappropriate use of parliamentary questions,” DeSmog UK reports.³¹²Brendan Montague. “Peers Attack Government Climate Scientists at Taxpayers’ Expense – Official Memo,” DeSmog UK, August 17, 2015.

Lord Donoughue, a member of the GWPF board of trustees, put forward a total of 25 questions over 15 months to the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) relating to obscure climate models.³¹³“Energy Files: Documents reveal UK govt frustration with climate sceptic pressure,” Energydesk, August 5, 2015. Archived August 17, 2015.

June 30, 2015

The Global Warming Policy Foundation’s Indur Goklany (member of their Academic Advisory Council) authored a GWPF paper titled “The Pontifical Academies’ Broken Moral Compass” (PDF) in response to Pope Francis’s Encyclical on the Environment.³¹⁴Indur M. Goklany. “The Pontifical Academies’ BROKEN MORAL COMPASS (PDF),” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, July 2015. Archived August 17, 2015.

According to the GWPF‘s press release, the paper “finds the Vatican is being led astray by its advisors by statements on climate change that are scientifically lacking and ethically dubious.” They also conclude that using fossil fuels is beneficial to the environment “the beneficial impact of fossil fuels has not only been on human well-being but also on nature, because fossil fuel use has allowed more intensive use of land, thus reducing the amount of wilderness that has to be diverted to agricultural use. This means that the Vatican’s backing of reductions in fossil fuel use would actually reduce human well-being and increase the human impact on the planet”.³¹⁵(Press release). “On Climate Change & Energy, ‘The Vatican’s Advisors Have Lost Their Moral Compasses’,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, June 30, 2015. Archived August 17, 2015. 

Goklany said:

“The academies say that sustainability and resilience are being destroyed by over-consumption and that fossil fuels are to blame, yet almost every indicator of human well-being from life-expectancy to health to standard of living has improved beyond measure largely because of our use of fossil fuels.”

“[…]Climate change is a moral and ethical issue, but it is a strange ethical calculus that would justify wiping out the gains we have made in human well-being over the last few centuries at the same time devastating the natural world. The Vatican’s advisors appear to have lost their way.”

June 15, 2015

The Global Warming Policy Foundation invited climate change skeptic Judith Curry to speak at the House of Lords about climate change, reported DeSmog UK.³¹⁶Ben Lucas. “UK Climate Deniers Invite American Sceptic Judith Curry to Speak in the House of Lords,” DeSmog UK, June 16, 2015. 

According to her presentation notes (PDF), her main message was to emphasise the uncertainty in the climate change science: “The punch line is this,” she said in the House of Lords, “Any impact of human caused global warming is lost in the noise of climate variability.” 

June 2015

The Global Warming Policy Foundation published a research paper (PDF) by Susan Crockford titled “The Arctic Fallacy.”³¹⁷Susan Crockford. “THE ARCTIC FALLACY: Sea ice stability and the polar bear (PDF),” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, June, 2015.

According to the GWPF press release, the paper “accuses scientists of systematically misleading the public, saying that they are blaming changes in polar bear populations on global warming despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.”³¹⁸(Press release). “Polar Bear Scientists ‘Willfully Blind to the Facts’,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, June 8, 2015. Archived August 17, 2015.

April 26, 2015

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) launched a “major inquiry into the integrity of the official global surface temperature records.” The group would be chaired by the GWPF‘s Terence Kealey.³¹⁹(Press release). “Inquiry Launched Into Global Temperature Data Integrity,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, April 25, 2015. Archived August 17, 2015.

Kealey said:

“Many people have found the extent of adjustments to the data surprising. While we believe that the 20th century warming is real, we are concerned by claims that the actual trend is different from – or less certain than – has been suggested. We hope to perform a valuable public service by getting everything out into the open.”

The “International Temperature Data Review Project” is hosted at tempdatareview.org. “The Panel” includes the following:³²⁰“The Commissioners,” The International Temperature Data Review Project. Archived August 17, 2015.

• Terence Kealey (chairman)
• Petr Chylek
• Richard McNider
• Roman Mureika
• Roger A Pielke Sr
• William van Wijngaarden

March 1, 2015

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) issued a briefing paper titled “The Small Print: What the Royal Society Left Out” (PDF) that accuses the Royal Society of “presenting a misleading picture of climate science.”³²¹“The Small Print: What the Royal Society Left Out (PDF),” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, March, 2015. Archived August 17, 2015.

“As an example, the Royal Society addresses the question of why Antarctic sea ice is growing,” says Prof Ross McKitrick, the chairman of the GWPF’s Academic Advisory Council, “but in doing so they present a recently proposed hypothesis as if it were settled science. Failing to admit when the answer to an important question is simply not known does a disservice to the public. We believe that this new paper does a much better job of presenting the whole picture to the public.”³²²(Press release). “Royal Society Misrepresents Climate Science,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, March 1, 2015. Archived August 17, 2015.

The paper was written/endorsed by the following “experts”:

• Prof Robert Carter
• Prof Vincent Courtillot
• Prof Freeman Dyson
• Prof Christopher Essex
• Dr Indur Goklany
• Prof Will Happer
• Prof Richard Lindzen
• Prof Ross McKitrick
• Prof Ian Plimer
• Dr Matt Ridley
• Sir Alan Rudge
• Prof Nir Shaviv

An analysis by DeSmog UK found that Peabody Energy had cited the March 2015 report at least 16 times in an official submission to the White House addressing the company’s concerns regarding new policies on greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.³²³Kyla Mandel. “Coal Baron Matt Ridley is Top Source in Peabody Climate Report to the White House,” DeSmog UK, July 20, 2015. 

July 2014

Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) Chairman Nigel Lawson accused the BBC of silencing the debate on global warming. He wrote his criticisms in an article in the Daily Mail titled “’I’ve been banned by the BBC!’: Ex-Chancellor Lord Lawson, a passionate climate change sceptic, accuses BBC bosses of silencing debate on global warming.“³²⁴Nigel Lawson. “‘I’ve been banned by the BBC!’: Ex-Chancellor Lord Lawson, a passionate climate change sceptic, accuses BBC bosses of silencing debate on global warming,” Daily Mail, July 9, 2014. 

In his article, Lawson wrote:³²⁵Nigel Lawson. “‘I’ve been banned by the BBC!’: Ex-Chancellor Lord Lawson, a passionate climate change sceptic, accuses BBC bosses of silencing debate on global warming,” Daily Mail, July 9, 2014.

“If there is to be a ban on non-scientists discussing climate change issues (which I do not, of course, support), this should in the best BBC tradition be an even-handed one. That is to say, they should also ban non-scientists such as energy secretary Ed Davey, Ed Miliband, Lord Deben (chairman of the government’s climate advisory committee), Lord Stern (former adviser to the government on the economics of climate change and development) and all the others who are regularly invited to appear.”

The Guardian reports how BBC rejected Lawson’s claims that BBC had been silencing the global warming debate. The BBC statement read:³²⁶Adam Vaughan. “BBC rejects claim that climate sceptic Lord Lawson is being silenced,” The Guardian, July 9, 2014.

“Nigel Lawson has not been banned and nor is there a ban on non-scientists discussing climate change. We have also not apologised for putting him on air. The BBC is absolutely committed to impartial and balanced coverage, whatever the subject, and would not bow to pressure from any quarter whatever the story. This ruling found a false balance was created in that the item implied Lord Lawson’s views on climate science were on the same footing as those of Sir Brian Hoskins.

“Our position continues to be that we accept that there is broad scientific agreement on climate change and we reflect this accordingly. We do however on occasion offer space to dissenting voices where appropriate as part of the BBC’s overall commitment to impartiality.”

May 14, 2014

The Global Warming Policy Foundation released a press release titled, “Lennart Bengtsson Resigns: GWPF voices shock and concern at the extent of intolerance within the climate science community.”³²⁷“Lennart Bengtsson Resigns: GWPF voices shock and concern at the extent of intolerance within the climate science community,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, May 14, 2014. Archived August 17, 2015. Three weeks prior to this announcement, Bengtsson had just joined the GWPF, but due to what he wrote in his letter of resignation as “enormous group pressure,” and “no limit and end to what will happen,” he decided that there was “no other way out therefore than resigning from GWPF.”

In response to Bengtsson’s letter of resignation, Benny Peiser replied, “The Foundation, while of course respecting Professor Bengtsson’s decision, notes with deep concern the disgraceful intolerance within the climate science community which has prompted his resignation.”³²⁸“Lennart Bengtsson Resigns: GWPF voices shock and concern at the extent of intolerance within the climate science community,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, May 14, 2014. Archived August 17, 2015.

David Henderson echoed similar sentiments: “Your resignation is not only a sad event for us in the Foundation: it is also a matter of profound and much wider concern. The reactions that you speak of, and which have forced you to reconsider the decision to join us, reveal a degree of intolerance, and a rejection of the principle of open scientific inquiry, which are truly shocking. They are evidence of a situation which the Global Warming Policy Foundation was created to remedy.”³²⁹“Lennart Bengtsson Resigns: GWPF voices shock and concern at the extent of intolerance within the climate science community,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, May 14, 2014. Archived August 17, 2015.

May 7, 2014

A Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) report by Willem de Lange and Bob Carter suggest that, with regards to sea level change “adaptation is more cost-effective than mitigation.”³³⁰(Press Release). “Sea Level Change: Living With Uncertainty,” Global Warming Policy Foundation. May 7, 2014. Archived August 17, 2015. ³³¹Willem P. de Lange and Robert M. Carter. “SEA–LEVEL CHANGE: Living with uncertainty (PDF)“, Global Warming Policy Foundation, May, 2014. Archived August 17, 2015.

November 2013

John Howard, former prime minister of Australia, spoke at the GWPF‘s Annual Lecture, contending that those who believe that global warming could be catostrophic have adopted a “substitute religion.”³³²John Howard. “One Religion is Enough (PDF),” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, November 5, 2013. Archived August 17, 2015.

September 2012

The Global Warming Policy Foundation published a pamphlet critical of the Stern Review (PDF) — an influential report on the economics of climate change published in October 2006. The GWPF pamphlet, titled “What is wrong with Stern?” was written by Peter Lilley, the Conservative Party Member of Parliament. Peter Lilley was one of 5 MPs (out of 646) who voted against the UK Climate Change Bill in 2008 which would have set legal targets for reducing emissions.³³³Peter Lilly MP. “What is Wrong with Stern: The Failings of the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change. (PDF),” The Global Warming Policy Foundation. Archived August 17, 2015.

According to a critical review (PDF) by Bob Ward at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the GWPF pamphlet uses a “combination of misrepresentation, bad economics and fundamentally flawed science, and simply recycles erroneous allegations that were made, and debunked, six years ago.” A number of experts agree that Lilley’s pamphlet makes a number of errors and assumptions in an attempt to make a case against the Stern report.³³⁴Bob Ward. “Critics of the Stern Review present both a case of bad economics and fundamentally flawed science,” London School of Economics and Political Science, October 3, 2012. Archived August 17, 2015.

May 2011

The GWPF distributed a leaflet (PDF) written by their “Academic Advisor” Matt Ridley (with a forward written by AGW skeptic Freeman Dyson) promoting the supposed benefits of shale gas. According to the report’s summary, the development of shale gas would be superior to the development of renewable resources.

Ridley writes that “A surge in gas production and use may prove to be both the cheapest and most effective way to hasten the decarbonisation of the world economy, given the cost and land requirements of most renewables.”³³⁵Matt Ridley. “The Shale Gas Shock” (PDF), The Global Warming Policy Foundation, May 2011. Archived August 17, 2015.

April 14, 2011

The GWPF presented “900+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticism Of ‘Man-Made’ Global Warming (AGW) Alarm.”³³⁶“900+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticism Of ‘Man-Made’ Global Warming (AGW) Alarm,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, April 14, 2011. Archived April 20, 2011.

The blog Carbon Brief analyzed these papers and found that nine of the top ten authors had ties to ExxonMobil. They also discovered that prominent scientists featured on the list didn’t agree that their work supported skepticism about anthropogenic global warming.³³⁷“Energy and Environment – ‘journal of choice for climate skeptics’ Analysing the 900+ skeptic papers part III,” The Carbon Brief, April 21, 2011. Archived August 17, 2015.

Additionally, the most-cited journal on the list was Energy and Environment, a journal with a very low impact factor, and whose editors are AGW skeptics.³³⁸“Energy and Environment – ‘journal of choice for climate skeptics’ Analysing the 900+ skeptic papers part III,” The Carbon Brief, April 21, 2011. Archived August 17, 2015.

December 2010–February 2011

According to records of the Public Relations Consultants Association (PDF), the GWPF retained the lobbying services of Bell Pottinger, a group that gas generated controversy for its claims of influence over senior government members. It is unclear what these services were.³³⁹“PRCA Public Affairs Register – December 2010 to February 2011” (PDF), PRCA.org.uk. Archived August 17, 2015.

November 2011

Lord Nigel Lawson of the GWPF backed Price Philip after he branded wind farms as “absolutely useless”:³⁴⁰“Ex-Chancellor Backs Prince Philip Over Attack On Wind Farms,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, November 21, 2011. Archived August 17, 2015.

“If you tried to devise the most costly and inefficient means of generating electricity imaginable, you would choose wind power,” Lawson said. He continues, stating that wind power is “an environmental monstrosity, desecrating ever more of our English landscape. And the cost of all this – to no benefit except to the wind power industry itself – is paid by all electricity consumers, including the poorest, and damages the British economy which is fragile enough as it is.”

September 2010

When the three British Government enquiries into the CRU emails were completed, Dr Benny Peiser of the Global Warming Policy Foundation immediately announced that he wanted to investigate further. Independent reviews had already exonerated the CRU scientists from any misdeads, and found that climate scientists involved in the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit had not “manipulated and suppressed key climate data” as some climate change skeptics had claimed.

Even though the panel concluded that the allegations were unfounded, the GWPF would not accept the findings. Peiser stressed that “the issue would not go away with the report,” and that “We (the Global Warming Policy Foundation) have now commissioned our own inquiry into the way these three inquiries have been set up and run.”³⁴¹“Ex-Chancellor Backs Prince Philip Over Attack On Wind Farms,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, November 21, 2011. Archived August 17, 2015.

The GWPF commissioned Andrew Montford, author behind the Hockey Stick Illusion and the man behind the skeptic blog Bishop Hill, to write the “enquiry” into the Climategate emails. Montford was paid £3000 for his efforts. The results were released in September 2010 — See the GWPF‘s full report here (PDF).³⁴²James Randerson.”‘Climategate’ inquiries were ‘highly defective’, report for sceptic thinktank rules,” The Guardian, September 14, 2010. Archived August 17, 2015. ³⁴³“The Climategate Inquiries,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, September 14, 2010. Archived October 24, 2010. ³⁴⁴Andrew Montford. “The Climategate Inquiries (PDF),” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, September 2010. Archived August 17, 2015.

The Guardian noted that the choice of Montford was ironic given the serious inaccuracies in The Hockey Stick Illusion, which has also been criticized by numerous reviewers.³⁴⁵Bob Ward. “Did climate sceptics mislead the public over the significance of the hacked emails?” The Guardian, August 19, 2010. Archived August 17, 2015. ³⁴⁶“The Montford Delusion,” RealClimate, July 22, 2010. Archived August 17, 2015. ³⁴⁷Nick Hewitt. “Climate change scepticism,” Chemistry World, September, 2010. Archived August 17, 2015. ³⁴⁸Alastair McIntosh. “THE HOCKEY STICK ILLUSION,” Scottish Review of Books, Volume 6, Issue 3 (2010). Archived August 17, 2015.

Furthermore the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s own funding faced controversy while it enjoyed charitable status, yet Montford himself is critical of what he calls “fake charities.”³⁴⁹“Entries in Fake charities,” Bishop Hill. Accessed August, 2015.

According to Sourcewatch, Montford criticized the official enquiries for not including known skeptics on their panels. This is not entirely true, however, as the Parliamentary Enquiry included Graham Stringer, a man who has consistently voted very strongly against laws to respond to climate change.³⁵⁰“Graham Stringer MP, Manchester, Blackley,” the public whip. Archived August 17, 2015. ³⁵¹“UNCORRECTED TRANSCRIPT OF ORAL EVIDENCE: To be published as HC 444-i: Reviews into the Climatic Research Unit’s E-mails at the university of East Anglia,” www.parliament.uk, September 8, 2010. Archived August, 2015.

Montford knew this, as evidenced by a recorded conversation he had with Stringer on his blog, Bishop Hill, where he describes Stringer as a “dissenter from the majority opinion represented by the report.”³⁵²“A chat with Graham Stringer,” Bishop Hill, April 10, 2010. Archived August 17, 2015.

May 12, 2010

After the UK general election in May 2010, the Global Warming Policy Foundation began lobbying the Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government to stop subsidies for alternatives fuels and encouraged the government to abandon the UK‘s emissions reductions targets.³⁵³“GWPF CALLS FOR SUSPENSION AND REVIEW OF UNILATERAL CLIMATE TARGETS,” Global Warming Policy Foundation, May 12, 2010. Archived August 17, 2015. 

“At the very least, given the financial and economic state we are in, the new Government should phase out all energy subsidies of all kinds, and suspend unilateral targets until such time as all other major nations have signed up to the same course,” said GWPF Chairman Nigel Lawson.

November 22, 2009

In an Op-Ed in The Times announcing the GWPF launch, Nigel Lawson called for “A high-level independent inquiry” into the e-mails stolen from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU).³⁵⁴“GWPF CALLS FOR SUSPENSION AND REVIEW OF UNILATERAL CLIMATE TARGETS,” Global Warming Policy Foundation, May 12, 2010. Archived August 17, 2015.

Related Organisations

• The Heartland Institute — (For example, David Henderson has been both a Heartland Institute Fellow and chair of GWPF)
• Global Warming Policy Forum — “Wholly-owned subsidiary of the Global Warming Policy Foundation.”³⁵⁵“Who We Are,” The Global Warming Policy Forum. Archived August 17, 2015.
• The Conservative Woman — Regularly publishes articles written by GWPF figures and/or based on GWPF reports.³⁵⁶Harry Wilkinson. “The Climate Change Act: Ten Years of Punishing the Poor,” Global Warming Policy Foundation, November 30, 2018. Archived January 18, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/o7Yib ³⁵⁷Kathy Gyngell. “Global warming? Only in the BBC’s imagination,” The Conservative Woman, April 4, 2019. Archived April 18, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/wcc9i
• University of Buckingham — Director Benny Peiser is a Visiting Fellow; John Constable is due to be Head of the Buckingham Energy Institute.³⁵⁸“This House Would Rather Cool Down the Planet than Warm Up the Economy | Cambridge Union,” YouTube video uploaded by user “The Cambridge Union,” November 17, 2017. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog. ³⁵⁹Tom Bawden. “Britain’s leading private university ‘becoming a mouthpiece for fossil-fuel industry’,” Independent, March 30, 2015. Archived December 7, 2018. Archive URL: https://archive.fo/DJtfO
• Irish Climate Science Forum — Published paper and spoke at ICSF event.³⁶⁰John Gibbons. “‘Incoherent, Inconsistent, and a Little Bit Funny’ — Debunked Report Shows Strengthening Ties Between UK and Irish Climate Science Deniers,” DeSmog, January 13, 2019.

Social Media

• “GWPF” on YouTube.
• @thegwpfcom on Twitter.
• “The Global Warming Policy Forum” on Facebook.
• “The Global Warming Policy Foundation” on LinkedIn.

Other Resources

• “The voices of climate change sceptics,” The Guardian, November 24, 2009. Archived August 18, 2015. 

Resources

• 1
  “Ed Miliband clashes with Lord Lawson on global warming,” BBC News, December 6, 2009. Archived August 17, 2015.
• 2
  “COPENHAGEN WILL FAIL – AND QUITE RIGHT TOO,” The Global Warming Policy Forum, November 22, 2009. Archived August 17, 2015.
• 3
  “GWPF Launched Today!” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, November 23, 2009. Archived January 4, 2012.
• 4
  “Nigel Lawson: Climate science has turned into religion,” The Register, November 25, 2009. Archived August 17, 2015.
• 5
  Caroline Davies and Suzanne Goldenberg. “The voices of climate change sceptics,” The Guardian, November 24, 2009. Archived August 17, 2015.
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  “Who We Are,” The Global Warming Policy Forum. Archived August 17, 2015.
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  “Who we are,” The Global Warming Policy Forum. Archived October 30, 2019. Archive URL: http://archive.md/lwIeF
• 8
  “People,” Institute of Economic Affairs. Archived November 17, 2015.
• 9
  Benny Peiser. “Welcome to Net Zero Watch,” Net Zero Watch. Archived October 11, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/waLwc
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  “Who We Are,” Net Zero Watch. Archived October 11, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/JIFzv
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  Ben Pile. “The UK Climate Assembly: Manufacturing Mandates,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation. Archived February 1, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/vyN4F
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  John Constable. “Kittiwake extinction risk and the death of environmentalism,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, January 19, 2021. Archived January 19, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/ZpGrb
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  Benny Peiser. “Dangerous precedent of consent for Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm & Kittiwake extinction risk,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, January 19, 2021. Archived January 19, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/QsWcV 
• 125
  Vijay Raj. “EU’s Carbon Border Taxes and Joe Biden’s Clean Energy plans: A double threat for developing countries,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, January 14, 2021. Archived January 18, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/8CRd4
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  John Constable. “Who are they fooling? The UK Energy White Paper 2020,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation. Archived January 5, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/Opilr
• 129
  “GWPF/ AEF Webinar: Reforming Environmental Science,” YouTube video uploaded by user GWPF on December 3, 2020. Archived.mp4 on file at DeSmog.
• 130
  Patricia Adams. “The Red and the Green: China’s Useful Idiots,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, December 11, 2020. Archived December 14, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/HjjOS
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  (Press Release). “Green groups are China’s ‘useful idiots’,”  The Global Warming Policy Foundation, December 11, 2020. Archived December 14, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/114e7
• 132
  “Committee on Climate Change’s Net Zero advice to government is “a political suicide note,” The Global Warming Policy Forum, December 10, 2020. Archived December 14, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/dS1ix
• 133
  “Bryan Leyland joins GWPF’s Academic Advisory Council,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, December 20, 2020. Archived January 4, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/zc6HN
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  Andrew Montford. “Cost of decarbonising cars,” The Global Warming Policy Forum. Archived November 30, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/US8CE 
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  “Motorists face £700 billion bill for going electric,”The Global Warming Policy Forum, November 27, 2020. Archived November 30, 2020. Archive.vn URL:https://archive.vn/pizdu
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  (Press Release). “Red Cross claims of increasing climate disasters is ‘grossly misleading,’” The Global Warming Policy Forum, November 20, 2020. Archived November 23, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/PH0lU
• 137
  (Press Release). “UN Disasters Report Is A Huge Blunder and Embarrassment,” The Global Warming Policy Forum, October 12, 2020. Archived November 23, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/BGej9
• 138
  “New footage reveals Netflix faked walrus climate deaths,” YouTube video uploaded by user GWPF on November 19, 2020. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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  (Press Release). “New footage revealed Netflix faked walrus deaths,” The Global Warming Policy Forum, November 19, 2020. Archived November 23, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/QUMCc
• 140
  David Whitehouse. “Climate change claim on thin ice,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, November 19, 2020. Archived November 23, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/XM1VU
• 141
  “Lord Lawson criticises Prime Minister Johnson for being ‘economically illiterate,” The Global Warming Policy Forum, November 18, 2020. Archived November 23, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/yWORe
• 142
  “Boris’s “Green Industrial Revolution” is Economic Lockdown, for ever…,” The Global Warming Policy Forum, November 18, 2020. Archived November 23, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/y5EcI
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  “Boris’s “Green Industrial Revolution” is Economic Lockdown, for ever…,” The Global Warming Policy Forum, November 18, 2020. Archived November 23, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/y5EcI
• 144
  “Evidence submitted by the GWPF to the UK Treasury Committee“, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, October 29, 2020. Archived November 2, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/PaYep
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  David Whitehouse. “Was September 2020 the warmest September on record?,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, October 29, 2020. Archived November 2, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/nhQCm
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  Debarati Guha-Sapir, Mami Mizutori. “The Human Cost of Disasters,” UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. Archived February 1, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/shPut
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  “It will be interesting to watch the up-is-down reporting on the new UN report on disasters.The graph below is from data in the report (Figure 5, p. 10). It shows that “climate-related” disasters have declined by ~15% over the past 20 years (2000-2019),” Tweet by @RogerPielkeJr, October 12, 2020. Retrieved from Twitter.com. Archived.png on file at DeSmog.
• 149
  “Sir Samuel Brittan (1933-2020),” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, October 12, 2020. Archived February 3, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/6JWUb
• 150
  Samuel Brittan. “Why we must dare to debate,” The Spectator, December 5, 2009. Archived February 3, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/bbsmD
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  (Press Release). “How Dare You!” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, October 8, 2020. Archived February 1, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/QclrF
• 152
  Gautum Kalghatgi, Auke Hoekstra. “How Green are Electric Cars?” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, September 29, 2020. Archived December 14, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/8azjF
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  (Press Release). “How Green are Electric Cars?“ The Global Warming Policy Foundation, September 29, 2020. Archived December 14, 2020. Archive URL:https://archive.vn/YeqMf
• 155
  David Whitehouse. “Global Warming Hiatus Was Real, Chinese Study Finds,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, September 23 2020. Archived September 28, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/ky2FJ
• 156
  Martin Livermore. “Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The global picture,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, September 2020. Archived September 15, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/QnCCd
• 157
  (Press Release). “Britain’s Net Zero Utopia Is A ‘Futile’ Exercise,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, September 8, 2020. Archived June 9, 2021.
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  Martin Livermore. “GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS: THE GLOBAL PICTURE,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 2020. Archived January 28, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/QnCCd
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  Professor Gordon Hughes, Dr Capell Aris, and Dr John Constable. “Offshore Wind Costs and Auction Price Bids: A Comment,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, July 31, 2020. Archived September 14, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/JF58d
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  Mike Travers. “Net Zero: Every Urban Street And Front Drive Will Be Dug Up,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, July 16, 2020. Archived September 14, 2020.
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  “Attenborough’s Arctic Betrayal,” YouTube video uploaded by user GWPF on January 27, 2020. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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