The Global Warming Policy Foundation

The Global Warming Policy Foundation
Founded23 November 2009 (2009-11-23)
TypeCharitable organisation
06962749[1]
Registration no.1131448[1]
Location
Coordinates51°30′23″N 00°07′55″W / 51.50639°N 0.13194°W / 51.50639; -0.13194
Key people
Terence Mordaunt, Chairman
Benny Peiser, Director
Revenue
£158,008 (FY 2011)[1]
Fundingundisclosed
Endowment£325,842 (FY 2011)[1]
Employees
3[1]
Websitewww.thegwpf.org Edit this at Wikidata

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) is a charitable organisation in the United Kingdom whose aims are to challenge what it calls "extremely damaging and harmful policies" envisaged by governments to mitigate anthropogenic global warming.[2] The GWPF, and some of its prominent members individually, have been characterised as practising and promoting climate change denial.[3][4]

In 2014, when the Charity Commission ruled that the GWPF had breached rules on impartiality, a non-charitable organisation called the "Global Warming Policy Forum" was created to do lobbying that a charity could not. The GWPF website carries an array of articles sceptical of the scientific consensus of anthropogenic global warming and its impacts.

  1. ^ a b c d e GWPF, "Financial Statements Year Ended 31 July 2011". Accessed: 7 June 2012.
  2. ^ "Ed Miliband clashes with Lord Lawson on global warming". BBC News. news.bbc.co.uk. 6 December 2009. Retrieved 22 December 2009.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference IJ denial was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Wherry, Frederick F.; Schor, Juliet B (2015). The SAGE Encyclopedia of Economics and Society. Sage Publications. p. 1020. ISBN 978-1-5063-4617-5.