Michael Hintze: Natural History Museum Offered Perks to Benefactor and Climate Science Denial Donor

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Ever wondered what a major donation to one of London’s premier cultural institutions might buy you? Well, quite a bit, it turns out.

And Sir Michael Hintze, the UK’s third richest hedge fund manager and known funder of climate science denial, is no exception, emails seen by DeSmog show.

Hintze, a prominent Conservative Party donor and Brexit backer, helps fund the UK’s principal climate science denial thinktank the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), set up a decade ago by former Chancellor and Conservative peer Nigel Lawson

Email correspondence obtained by campaign group Culture Unstained shines a light on Hintze’s close relationships with the publicly-funded Natural History Museum and National Portrait Gallery.