Oh shit *LOL*
Only you would be suckered into this ...
Tim Ball is a lieing sack that was exposed in the Globe and Mail for being funded by the oil industry, he sued the Globe and Mail, not because they were wrong but because he said it made it hard for him to make money *LOL*
Heres the real info you ignorant twit ...
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Origins
The Friends of Science was founded in 2002, with an active website since October, 2002 (as viewed at archive.org) [4]. The initial list of "professional contacts" included [5]: In 2006, Charles Montgomery reported in the Globe and Mail that Tom Harris (at the time employed at the Ottawa office of APCO Worldwide) "organized the Friends' first Ottawa press conference in 2002" [6], citing Friends of Science spokesperson Albert Jacobs. Montgomery further commented, in private e-mail correspondence dated February 8, 2007: "Jacobs told me that Harris has been a good friend to FOS, but he added that Harris didn't want people to know this."
In responding to a Wunderblog post about him [7], Harris stated: "You imply I had something to do with organizing 'the fraud operation known as "Friends of Science" '. Correction: No, FOS started up on their own." [8]
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Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Congress No-Show
At the 40th Annual Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) congress held in early June 2006 in Toronto, Canada, "Canada's leading scientific society on climate called for urgent government action on climate change," Stephen Leahy wrote for Inter Press Service.
Ian Rutherford, CMOS executive director, told Leahy that "the CMOS membership representing more than 800 public and private scientists" made a public statement that the "scientific evidence dictates that in order to stabilise the climate, global reductions in greenhouse gas emissions need to go far beyond those mandated under this Kyoto Protocol."
Though not CMOS's first public statement, it was one of the most "vocal about climate change of late" due to the fact "that Canada's new Conservative government does not support the Kyoto Protocol for lower emissions of greenhouse gases, and opposed stricter emissions for a post-Kyoto agreement at a United Nations meeting in Bonn in May [2006]" and because "a small, previously invisible group of global warming sceptics called the Friends of Science are suddenly receiving attention from the Canadian government and media," Leahy wrote.
"The Conservative government is listening to them (the sceptics) because they tell them what they want to hear," Rutherford told IPS. However, Rutherford said, "No member from Friends of Science presented any papers, viewpoints or even attended the CMOS meeting," Leahy wrote. "They never present their arguments in front of scientists and should not be listened to," Rutherford said. [9]
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Lobbyists and Political Connections
According to the Lobbyists Registration System, Government of Canada, Bryan Thomas and Morten Paulsen of Fleishman-Hillard Canada Inc. are registered lobbyists for the Friends of Science Society. Registration records show that services were due to expire in August 2006. [10]
Morten Paulsen, who "has close Conservative ties", is not only registered as a lobbyist for Friends of Science, but also for "several petroleum companies including Conoco-Phillips Canada, and Kinder Morgan Canada Inc. Paulsen has long been active in the federal Conservative Party and its Reform/Alliance predecessors, serving as Preston Manning's communication director, managing MP Art Hanger's 2004 election campaign, and also holding high-ranking positions with the Alberta Conservatives," according to the Liberal Party of Canada in Alberta in August 2006. [11]
Canadian Conservative MP Bob Mills, environment critic under then Opposition Leader Stephen Harper for both the Canadian Alliance and the Conservative Party, was a longtime supporter of the Friends of Science and their scientific advisors. In a press release dated July 18, 2002, Bob Mills defended climate change skeptics like the Friends of Science and Richard Lindzen: "The fact that Dr. Lindzen and thousands of other scientists disagree with the Canadian government’s one-sided view of climate change in no way invalidates their valuable contributions to understanding this complex science."
Specifically, Mills complained, "[The] Climate Change Secretariat would not allow Kyoto science skeptics such as [FoS scientific advisor] Professor Tim Patterson, a leading paleo-climatoligist, into the Kyoto public consultations sessions held in June." The press release gave as a contact Tom Harris, Mills's legislative assistant who went on to become an associate at APCO Worldwide later that year (see also FoS Origins above).
Later, Bob Mills enabled the appearance of the Friends of Science, in the persons of then President Charles Simpson and Tim Patterson, before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development on February 10, 2005.[12] During the testimony, Mills asked cogent questions such as: "[i]s CO2 really a poisonous, hazardous waste?"
After the Conservative election victory in 2006, Mills's relationship with climate change skeptics cooled. In Financial Post article dated December 5, 2006, Tom Harris and Tim Ball complained: "Somewhere along the road to power, Mills' questioning of the science of Kyoto and his demands for open consultations on the issue subsided. He removed all traces of his previous position from his Web site (bobmillsmp.com)."
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Funding
As reported by Charles Montgomery in the Globe and Mail, Prof. Barry Cooper of the University of Calgary "set up a fund at the university dubbed the Science Education Fund. Donors were encouraged to give to the fund through the Calgary Foundation, which administers charitable giving in the Calgary area, and has a policy of guarding donors' identities. The Science Education Fund in turn provides money for the Friends of Science, as well as Tim Ball's travel expenses, according to Albert Jacobs, [spokesperson for the Friends of Science]."
The article continues: "Prof. Cooper and Mr. Jacobs both affirm that the Science Education Fund paid the bills for the Friends' anti-Kyoto video, Climate Catastrophe Cancelled." As to the source of the donations, "[The money's] not exclusively from the oil and gas industry," Cooper told Montgomery. [13]
As of March, 2006 the balance in the Science Education Fund stood at $76,000, according to the Calgary Foundation's 2006 annual report. The same report shows that $200,000 was disbursed from the Science Education Fund to the University of Calgary in the 2005-6 fiscal year. [14]
An older version of the FoS website news section featured an exchange between FoS and "an interested reader". This exchange has been removed from the current news section, and replaced with a link to a Word document version of the exchange [15]. However, the following question and answer have been removed from the Word document:
"Reader: Incidentally, I would truly appreciate if you could tell me how you are funded. Where does your money come from?
"FoS: We are funded through membership fees ($25/yr) and individual donations. Large projects - such as our video and radio ads - are funded through grants out of ... [the Science Education Fund], directed towards debate of climate science and which is also fed by the charitable Calgary Foundation." [16]
As detailed in the January 2007 newsletter [17], the Friends of Science continues to solicit both non-tax-deductible direct donations, as well as tax-deductible indirect donations to the Science Education Fund through the Calgary Foundation.
Calgary Foundation marketing director Kerry Longpré told Charles Montgomery that she had never heard of the Friends of Science. "The foundation, she said, deals only with the university, which is left to administer donations as it sees fit." [18]. According to the Calgary Foundation's 2006 report, the Science Education Fund is a "flow-through", donor-directed fund.[19] Dan Thorburn of the Calgary Foundation has confirmed that all funds disbursed in 2005-6 were paid to the University of Calgary Development Office at the request of the Fund's anonymous designated donor advisor. According to Thorburn, funded projects require letters of attestation confirming project spending in conformance with the original proposal, but the Foundation has not indicated whether or not such letters have been received with regard to the Science Education Fund projects.
Thus far, External Vice-President Roman Cooney of the University of Calgary has refused to furnish any information or documentation about the Science Education Fund, its ultimate recipients or funded projects. In an email dated February 15, 2007, Cooney made the following public statements regarding the Friends of Science and the Science Education Fund:
"The University of Calgary does not provide funding for Friends of Science. There is no University of Calgary trust fund for Friends of Science. We do not endorse its work or its findings ... The University of Calgary does not have a position on climate change, nor would it. As an independent, non-partisan research institution, the U of C insists on maintaining its neutrality.
"The fundamental principle is academic freedom ... In this case, a group of scientists holds a particular viewpoint and have advanced it publicly, with funding support from the external community. The fact that one of the scientists [i.e. political science professor Barry Cooper] is a faculty member here cannot be taken to conclude that the U of C supports that individual's research. The University of Calgary does not dictate to its professors the kind of research they will or will not do." [20]
In a telephone conversation on February 22, 2007, Mike Visser, the director of the Friends of Science anti-Kyoto video, confirmed that he was paid directly by the University of Calgary, presumably from monies donated to the Science Education Fund set up by Barry Cooper. It is not known whether monies from the Science Education Fund were used to pay expenses of other Friends of Science projects. But, as noted above, the Friends of Science Society has stated that the Fund also paid for anti-Kyoto radio ads and Tim Ball's travel expenses. However, there is no evidence that monies were disbursed to the Friends of Science itself from the university or from any research fund of a university faculty member.
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FoS's Reassuring Video
In April 2005, FoS released a video directed by Mike Visser entitled "Climate Catastrophe Cancelled" [21] in conjunction with Professor Barry Cooper of the Politics Department of the University of Calgary. The PR contact is listed as Sheila Roy of APCO Worldwide Canada, who have been involved in climate change denial since at latest 2002. [22] [23]
In a November 2005 email correspondence, Albert Jacobs indicated that Roy was hired on a one off basis though APCO is occasionally hired to "do specific jobs for us under incidental contracts, as the need arises."
The video features among others: The men featured in the video and the members of the FoS Scientific Advisory Board are all signatories to a letter that was sent to Canada's former Prime Minister Paul Martin and in 2006 to current Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, calling on them to "examine the scientific foundation of the federal government's climate-change plans" and "conduct a review of the Kyoto Protocol". The letter was dutifully reprinted in full by the right-wing National Post newspaper in Canada. [24]
The letter was signed by 60 scientists in total, however only 19 were actually Canadian and only half of the Canadian signatories could by any stretch of the imagination, be considered climate scientists. [25]
Paul Martin justifiably ignored this letter and signed on to Kyoto, while Prime Minister Harper’s Conservative government in May 2006 announced that Canada would develop a "made in Canada" approach to tackling greenhouse gas emissions, saying that the emission levels of Kyoto were not realistic. [26]
A recent magazine article in This Magazine had an extensive piece on how National Public Relations, along with the oil and gas industry, manufactured and coined the phrase "Made in Canada" in relation to climate change. [27]
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Radio Ad Campaign During 2006 Canadian Election Campaign
In late 2005, the Friends of Science mounted an anti-Kyoto radio ad campaign, tied to the Canadian federal election campaign, and funded through tax-deductible donations to the Science Education Fund via the Calgary Foundation (see section on Funding above). The January, 2006 newsletter describes the campaign:
"RADIO BLITZ
"Our campaign is working. Before and during the election, Friends bought radio advertising in 5 major Ontario markets. Our message was that voters have not been given the facts on climate change, and that candidates need to be questioned on their intentions to spend billions on global warming theories ...
"The response was intense ... We registered over 300,000 hits to our website in the first 12 days of January alone." [28]
The first ad outlines three supposed myths about global warming and urges listeners to "get the real answers at friendsofscience.org and then ask your MPs why they want to spend billions on global warming theories." The second ad refers to Canadian government policies such as the "One Ton Challenge". The ad concludes: "Have you been told the truth? ... Find out - watch our video at friendsofscience.org."
The election was held on January 23, 2006, following an eight-week campaign [29].
The FoS website as of December 21, 2005 features the headline "Who needs scientists, when you've got celebrities!!!", an attack on Environment Minister Stéphane Dion's solicitation of videotaped messages from international celebrities in connection with the 11th Session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), hosted by Canada and held in Montreal in December, 2005.
The FoS home page also featured the message: "If you've heard our radio ads, thanks for visiting! Now watch the video by clicking the video link to your left." The anti-Kyoto video (see above) opens with clips featuring several members of the Government, including former Prime Minister Jean Chretien and Environment Minister Stéphane Dion, as well as Opposition members.
The Daily Oil Bulletin reported:
"In the run-up to the last federal election, a Calgary-based group called the Friends of Science Society aired 30-second radio spots which attacked the Kyoto Accord. The paid advertisements warned that the global warming agreement is scientifically unsound and economically destructive to Canada. The message reached 200,000 people in Ontario ridings where polls showed the Liberals had only a slight lead."
" 'There's no way to reliably assess how much influence our ads had,' acknowledges Eric Loughead, the society's vice-president. After they were aired, however, the non-profit group's website received a surge of 300,000 visitors, and the Conservatives did win several of the targeted ridings." [30]
Elections Canada rules on third party advertising cover any message "that takes a position on an issue with which a registered party or candidate is associated" and requires such advertisers to register with the Chief Electoral Officer. The rules also impose strict spending limits of $3000 per riding, ban the issuance of tax receipts for supporting contributions, and require the filing of detailed, audited financial reports. The Friends of Science Society does not appear on the list of registered third-party advertisers for the 2006 election and to all appearances has not met any of the obligations of third party advertisers.
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2007 Climate Change Conference
The Friends of Science are involved with a climate change conference, as detailed in the January, 2007 newsletter: "Barry Cooper of the University of Calgary and Tim Patterson of Carleton University are arranging a conference in Ottawa on the science of global climate change. The date will be April 19 & 20th. Friends of Science is providing backup support for the event... It is anticipated the conference will result in a well-publicised discussion demonstrating that the science of global warming is far from settled, in spite of what the Kyoto supporters would have us believe." [31]
The conference was first proposed by Friends of Science in their September, 2006 newsletter: "[W]e are focusing on a major conference to kick start the debate on climate science in Canada ..." [32]
The Toronto Star reported that Barry Cooper would provide much of the funding for the event (presumably through the Science Education Fund, although the Fund is not mentioned): "Meanwhile, Cooper, a political science professor and erstwhile mentor to Harper, has enough resources to offer travel and hotel costs, and $1,000 each, to the 13 people he invited to speak at the April conference in Ottawa, which he is mounting with the help of Friends of Science." [33]. The only one of the 13 identified by the Star is longtime Friends of Science scientific advisor Tim Ball.
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FoS misrepresents its affiliation with University of Calgary
Although key Friends of Science projects have received major funding from charitable donations funneled through the Calgary Foundation and the University of Calgary Development Office, Roman Cooney, the University of Calgary's vice-president of external relations, has insisted from the start that the Friends of Science is neither affiliated with nor endorsed by the university. "And when he saw the University of Calgary's coat of arms on early copies of the anti-Kyoto video, Mr. Cooney ordered Prof. Cooper to remove it." [34] The original version of the video, available on YouTube, also contains the opening and closing credit: "A UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY VIDEO In cooperation with the Friends of Science Society." The press release for the video also implied U of C affiliation: "Today, researchers at the University of Calgary, in cooperation with the Friends of Science Society, released a video entitled: Climate Catastrophe Cancelled".
Since that time, the university has objected to at least two more major misrepresentations on the part of the Friends of Science. In 2006, the FoS website newsection made the following statement (later removed): "Large projects - such as our video and radio ads - are funded through grants out of a University of Calgary Trust Fund, directed towards debate of climate science and which is also fed by the charitable Calgary Foundation." [35] The January, 2007 newsletter originally stated: "The University of Calgary, in conjunction with Carleton University in Ottawa, is planning on holding a conference in Ottawa on the science of global climate change." [36] Under pressure from the University of Calgary, the statement was revised to read: "Barry Cooper of the University of Calgary and Tim Patterson of Carleton University are arranging a conference in Ottawa on the science of global climate change." [37]
In February, 2007, Roman Cooney issued the following statement in an e-mail: "The University of Calgary has long-standing and publicly-stated concerns about Friends of Science using the University of Calgary's name to infer that it has the University's endorsement. Our response has included cease-and-desist directives to the Friends of Science from the University's legal counsel. Most recently, following a reference to the University of Calgary in a newsletter from the head of Friends of Science ... and under caution of legal action, I insisted that the Friends of Science provide the attached letter to clarify its relationship to the University of Calgary." [38]
The letter is dated January 23, 2007 and was sent to Roman Cooney and is signed by FoS president Douglas Leahey. The letter states in its entirety: "I wish to confirm that Friends of Science is not and has never been affiliated with the University of Calgary, nor does it receive, or has ever received, funding or support from the University of Calgary." [39]
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"Friends of Science" (FoS) is not "Friends Of Science" (FOS)
The FOS website friendsofscience.ca does not belong to FoS.
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Personnel
- Douglas Leahey, president. "Dr. Leahey is an atmospheric physicist with extensive experience in the assessment of effects of sour gas, suphur dioxide, and other atmospheric contaminants." Dr. Leahey has worked with the Bercha Group on a number of joint projects including the Shell-Caroline Emergency Response Plan, and air quality assessments. He has recently collaborated with the Bercha Group on a number of sour gas drilling permit applications involving the effects of flaring on air quality. Dr. Leahey is an "independent consultant to the oil and gas industry." [40]
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Scientific Advisory Board
- Tim Patterson, Professor of Geology and Paleoclimatology, Carleton University
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Former Scientific Advisors and Consultants
- Tim Ball, Retired Professor of Climatology; Consultant
- Tad Murty, Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Earth Sciences in The University of Ottawa
- Ross McKitrick, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Guelph; Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute
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Domain / Website
The domain FRIENDSOFSCIENCE.ORG was registered May 9, 2002, through Tucows Inc. to Charles Simpson, 1121 Valois Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta T2T1L4, Canada, a "retired oil industry employee". [41] Simpson is also the administrative contact. The technical contact is Mirek Chynal of Commerx Corporation, #200, 555 - 11th Ave SW, Calgary, Alberta T2R1P6, Canada.
The DMOZ listing reads: "Offers critical scientific evidence, including a five-piece video, that challenges the premises of the Kyoto Protocol, and presents alternative causes of climate change."
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Contact details
P.O. Box 23167, Connaught Post Office
Calgary, AB T2S 3B1
Phone: 403 236-4203
FAX: 403 236-4203
Website: http://www.friendsofscience.org/
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Related SourceWatch resources
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External Links
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Profiles
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FoS website past versions
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://...sofscience.org
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2002
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2005
- News Release: "Climate Experts Speak Out in New Video - Science underlying Kyoto Protocol seriously flawed," CNW Telbec, April 13, 2005. Also posted on Friends of Freedom website.
- John A, "Friends of Science: Climate Catastrophe Cancelled," ClimateAudit.org, April 25, 2005.
- Garth Pritchard, "Kyoto Protocol--Propaganda or Censorship?" Canada Free Press, May 7, 2005.
- Alexa Moutevelis, "Canadian Scientists Dismiss Threat of Climate Change," Cybercast News Service, June 27, 2005.
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2006
- "The Denial Machine," the fifth estate CBC News (Canada). Aired November 15, 2006 at 9pm on CBC-TV & November 18, 2006 at 10pm ET on CBC Newsworld.
- Stephen Leahy, "New Data Clearly Links Storms, Global Warming," Inter Press Service, 2006 [June ?].
- Jim Peterson, M.P., "The Weather Makers - A Book By Timothy Flannery - Review by Jim Peterson," JimPeterson.ca, 2006 [August ?].
- Open Letter: "Open Kyoto to debate. Sixty scientists call on Harper to revisit the science of global war," Financial Post/National Post (Canada), April 12, 2006.
- Doug Struck, "Canada Alters Course on Kyoto. Budget Slashes Funding Devoted to Goals of Emissions Pact," Washington Post, May 2, 2006.
- "Ambrose undermined Kyoto, Liberals claim," CBC News (Canada), May 20, 2006.
- Kevin Grandia, "NEWS ALERT: Conservative/Alberta PC Operative Backs 'Friends of Science'," DeSmogBlog, June 8, 2006.
- Kevin Grandia, "Dr. Doug Leahy: Do any of the Friends of Science not lead back to oil and gas?" DeSmogBlog, June 9, 2006.
- Mike Byfield, "Friends Of Science Critiques The Evidence For Man-Made Climate Change" Daily Oil Bulletin, June 12, 2006
- Richard Littlemore, "Friends of Science a Political, NOT Scientific Clique," DeSmogBlog, June 15, 2006.
- Kevin Grandia, "Friends of Science; Friends of Tobacco," DeSmogBlog, June 20, 2006.
- Richard Littlemore, "Good enough for Friends of Science, not good enough for Philip Morris," DeSmogBlog, June 20, 2006.
- Kevin Grandia, "Another questionable friend of the Friends of Science," DeSmogBlog, June 22, 2006.
- Sarah Pullman, "Compiled Info on the Friends of Science," DeSmogBlog, July 19, 2006.
- Kevin Grandia, "PM Harper's fishing buddy behind Kyoto attack group," DeSmogBlog, July 21, 2006.
- Richard Littlemore, "Long-time Alberta Reformer, a Friends of Science Booster" and "Long-time Alberta Reformer, a Friends of Science Booster," DeSmogBlog, July 21, 2006.
- Charles Montgomery, "Mr. Cool. Nurturing doubt about climate change is big business," The Globe and Mail (charlesmontgomery.ca), August 12, 2006.
- Jim Hoggan, "Oil Companies Funding Friends of Science, Tim Ball takes the brunt," DeSmogBlog, August 12, 2006.
- Richard Littlemore, "Conservative Party Heavyweight Orchestrated Oil-backed Friends of Science" and "Calgary Foundation, University of Calgary Launder Oil Industry Donations," DeSmogBlog, August 12, 2006.
- Richard Littlemore, "Calgary PR Pro Morten Paulsen in Violation of Professional Standards Code," DeSmogBlog, August 12, 2006.
- "Petroleum Money Drives Conservative ClimateChange Skepticism," Liberal Party of Canada, August 15, 2006.
- Mark Holland, News Release: "Petroleum money drives Conservative climate change skepticism," markholland.com, August 15, 2006.
- Jim Hoggan, "On twisting words and dodging responsibility," DeSmogBlog, August 18, 2006.
- Sheila Pratt, "Sowing doubt about climate change in Stephen Harper's backyard. U.S.-style tactics come north to influence public policy, but will they work on Canadians?" The Edmonton Journal (Canada), August 20, 2006.
- Richard Littlemore, "National Post's Corcoran defends his Friends of Science, slanders everyone else," DeSmogBlog, August 18, 2006.
- Charles Montgomery, "My information was not false. Re: Hockey Sticks and Hatchets, Terence Corcoran, Aug. 23.," Financial Post/National Post, August 31, 2006.
- Kevin Grandia, "The Fanciful World of the Friends of Science," DeSmogBlog, August 31, 2006.
- Jim Hoggan, "Astroturf: The Only Grass That Withstands Toxic Friends of Science," DeSmogBlog, September 6, 2006.
- Richard Littlemore, "Tim Ball on the 'Arrogance' of Friends of Science," DeSmogBlog, September 12, 2006.
- Zachary Coile, "Senator says warming by humans just a hoax," San Francisco Chronicle, October 11, 2006. re Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK)
- Richard Littlemore, "Discredited Friends of Science Re-emerge as the Natural Resources Stewardship Project," DeSmogBlog, October 12, 2006.
- Andrew Nikiforuk, "If You Can't Stand the Heat . . .," The Globe and Mail (Canada), November 11, 2006. Review of George Monbiot's "Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning".
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php...nds_of_Science
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