The global warming "denial lobby" is targeting Britain, reports the Observer, and it has U.S. connections. "The UK-based Scientific Alliance, which organised the meeting of skeptics in London last month, recently published a joint report with America's George C. Marshall Institute, a think-tank which has received donations from Exxon. ... Exxon has also contributed $50,000 to the International Policy Network, headquartered in London. Key personnel at the IPN have connections with the Institute of Economic Affairs, Britain's leading conservative think-tank, as well as the Competitive Enterprise Institute in the U.S., whose global warming expert is Myron Ebell, President Bush's climate adviser."

David Earnshaw, the Managing Director of the Brussels office of Burson-Marsteller subsidiary BKSH & Associates, has rejected calls for stricter regulation of European Union lobbyists preferring self-regulation instead. "If you regulate strictly, the people who get hurt are the little people -- the people who do not have a voice -- not the people who can bend the rules," he told the Washington Times. BKSH clients have included GE, Yukos Oil, Ahmed Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress.