Its stated aim is to "bring together both scientists and non-scientists committed to rational discussion and debate on the challenges facing the environment today.
[2] The group was created in 2001 by quarryman Robert Durward, director of the British Aggregates Association, and political consultant Mark Adams of the public relations firm Foresight Communications.
[4] In December 2004 the organization published a joint report with the George C. Marshall Institute in Washington,[5] a thinktank that has received $715,000 in funding from the U.S. oil company, ExxonMobil.
[1] In 2006, when Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth was put on the British school curriculum, the Scientific Alliance took the Labour government to court for “indoctrinating” pupils.
A High Court judge eventually ruled the film should still be shown but the accompanying teaching notes watered down to weaken the claimed link between climate change and extreme weather.