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former chancellor is an avowed skeptic of climate change - and the "facts" repeated to demonstrate the inaccuracy

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was a great boost to their public profile in the last two years after the launch of its Global Warming Policy Foundation in November 2009.

Many parts of the press now feel obliged to include the views of Lawson and other representatives of the foundation in the reports on the issues of climate change to "balance" the statements made by senior researchers and policy makers.

Since the foundation's accounts show that has about 80 members, has acquired an enormous amount of publicity in the media, particularly in the Telegraph, Mail and Express, newspapers have adopted the skepticism on the climate change as an editorial.

But Lord Lawson is still not satisfied, as noted in an opinion piece in the Times last week, on Sunday. Do not complain that he and other representatives of the foundation were not getting the coverage they deserve, but also revealed that the BBC Trust has threatened with legal action, because it suggests that the station had helped "make statements that are not compatible with the facts."

As the foundation is a registered charity, and therefore, Lawson is a trustee, who must comply with the guidelines of the Charity Commission on political campaign activity, which says

"A charity can campaign with emotional or controversial material, it is legitimate and justified in the context of the campaign. This material must be factually accurate and have a legitimate basis of evidence. "

However, there are many examples of Lord Lawson make statements, including the BBC interviews and parliamentary debates, which are not compatible with most updated evidence and research .

An example is the emergence of Lawson on Newsnight July 7, 2010, the transcript of what appears on the site of the foundation.

During the program, Lawson said:

"And [the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] IPCC - and it helps us to get this in perspective - the IPCC, if you take the worst estimate of the heating, the upper end global warming, the worst of the economic scenario, insists that all this will lead is that living standards in the developing world, a hundred years, instead of just over nine times higher than today will be a little more than eight times greater than today. "

This statement is clearly wrong.

Lawson was apparently referring to the IPCC assessment report, published in 2007 in three main volumes, plus a summary report. Table 4.6 shows by per capita income in developing countries will increase by a factor of 66, which is much larger than nine times as claimed by Lawson.

addition, the IPCC report does not contain an estimate of the increase in per capita income in developing countries could be affected by climate change. Therefore, claim Lord Lawson, the IPCC says the wealth of developing countries is limited to an eightfold increase due to climate change in this scenario is completely false. In fact, his line of thinking is fundamentally flawed because it assumes that the impacts of unchecked climate change will never have a marginal effect on future rates of economic growth.

However

throughout the program, Lawson disputed statements made by Professor Anderson about the scientific evidence of climate change. However, Lord Lawson cites no research to support their claims, and in relation to the available scientific literature is clear that is not supported by facts.

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