Aww! Lord Lawson's Denier Club Revenues Down 60% - Will Host President Shitstain's Climate Advisor
The main group advocating climate change scepticism in the UK has seen its income from members slump by more than 60 per cent in just five years, according to figures submitted to Companies House. The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) – set up by former Conservative Chancellor Nigel Lawson – has persistently disputed scientific research into climate change, describing the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as “alarmist” and calling for the Government to abandon targets to reduce fossil fuel emissions.
The figures, unearthed by Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment in London, show that the income from membership fees in the 12 months until September 2016 was £5,409, down by 62 per cent on the figure in 2011, when the group received £14,300.
On its website, the GWPF asks “members to donate at least £100 [a year] to help” fund its activities, which suggests a paying membership of less than 55, although the foundation told The Independent it had about 300 members, of whom approximately 100 made payments of some kind.
However Mr Ward, in an article for The Independent, said that the figures show there “may have been a slump in the membership of the UK’s main club for climate change ‘sceptics’, as it... hosts a press conference for an architect of President Donald Trump’s assault on environmental regulations”. On Monday, Myron Ebell – who led Mr Trump’s transition team at the Environment Protection Agency, and is now head of the Centre for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a think tank which opposes “global-warming alarmism” – will hold a briefing for the press at an event held by the GWPF.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/global-warming-policy-foundation-climate-change-sceptics-membership-fees-a7551321.html