Revealed: the man behind court attack on Gore film

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2190770,00.html

The school governor who challenged the screening of Al Gore's climate change documentary in secondary schools was funded by a Scottish quarrying magnate who established a controversial lobbying group to attack environmentalists' claims about global warming.

The Observer has established that Dimmock's case was supported by a powerful network of business interests with close links to the fuel and mining lobbies. He was also supported by a Conservative councillor in Hampshire, Derek Tipp.

The company's owner and chairman of the New Party, Robert Durward, is a long-time critic of environmentalists. With Mark Adams, a former private secretary to Tony Blair, he set up the Scientific Alliance, a not-for-profit body comprising scientists and non-scientists, which aims to challenge many of the claims about global warming.

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http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?id=91642003&tid=733
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Robert Durward, a Lanarkshire businessman, has joined forces with Mark Adams - a former Downing Street civil servant once accused of leaking Cabinet papers to undermine Tony Blair’s government - to launch the right-wing New Party, with plans to field candidates in the next Scottish parliamentary elections.

Both men had good reason to create an organisation that would act as a thorn in the side of the government. Mr Durward, who owns Cloburn Quarry near his home in south Lanarkshire, blamed environmentalists for the aggregates tax which imposed a levy of £1.60 on every ton of the red granite he extracted from his operation. Mr Adams, a former private secretary to Tony Blair and John Major, left Downing Street in 1997 amid claims that he was disappointed at his lack of promotion. When he was named as the prime suspect in a damaging leak of Cabinet papers on the Labour government’s decision to back the Millennium Dome, he refused to deny the accusations and joked that it could be good for his public relations business.

Yesterday Mr Durward, who has spoken out against environmentalists and "witchhunts" against drink drivers, and once suggested allowing the army to run schools and hospitals, finally came out into the open to defend his involvement and to counter claims of fascism.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_C._Marshall_Institute
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According to the Center for Science in the Public Interest: "The Marshall Institute investigates facts concerning global climate change. The Institute also studies the implications of the Kyoto Protocol upon national security. The Institute is partially supported by the Exxon Education Foundation and American Standard Companies."<1>

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>the Scientific Alliance, a not-for-profit body comprising scientists and non-scientists, which aims to challenge many of the claims about global warming.

But it IS for profit. Its WHOLE POINT is to increase the profits of the donors above the amount that's being donated, creating a PROFIT.

It's always about unlimited profits for these goons.