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Originally Posted by Flame Of Liberty
Care to link some articles?
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Certainly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Patterson
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php...=Tim_Patterson
Tim Patterson bio and association information, including Freinds of Science and Natural Resources Stewardship Project.
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/denialmachine/
"The Denial Machine investigates the roots of the campaign to negate the science and the threat of global warming. It tracks the activities of a group of scientists, some of whom previously consulted for for Big Tobacco, and who are now receiving donations from major coal and oil companies."
"A footnote: a few days after Prime Minister Harper received that letter, he had another, from
90 of Canada's most senior
climate scientists and oceanographers. This second letter cited "an increasing urgency to act on the threat of climate change", and called upon the government to develop a national policy on climate change and strategies to adapt to what it said was "the inevitable changes that will affect us all"."
http://www.viewmag.com/viewstory.php...id=4924&page=1
“Where did this group get its funding?” Mark Holland, Liberal
MP for Ajax–Pickering, rhetorically asked last fall during Question
Period. “The funding was set up by an individual by the name of
Barry Cooper, a very close associate of the prime minister. The
objective was to funnel oil money through a system of hiding
where it came from to allow it to get to Friends of Science so they
could try to create doubt among the population that climate
change is real.”
“The campaigns can be fairly successful at fooling people
because they’ve become increasingly sophisticated over the years
at disguising it,” Rampton says. “A lot of effort will go into making
it look like this is just a grassroots initiative and concealing the
identity of the corporate sponsor who’s actually paying for the
whole effort.”
http://www.thestar.com/article/175673
The Friends of Science get oil industry funding. It's welcome, but "they're not overly generous," Leahy says. The industry contributes about one-third of the group's annual budget, or some $35,000.
The source of Cooper's funding isn't clear. He is, however, a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute, a right-wing think tank and lobby group, which got $120,000 in two instalments from Exxon Mobil. Cooper didn't return phone calls from the
Toronto Star.
http://www.charlesmontgomery.ca/mrcool.html
"But they may not realize that by quietly backing the movement behind maverick figures such as Prof. Ball, the fuel industry - with its close ties to the party that brought Prime Minister Stephen Harper to power - is succeeding, bit by bit, in influencing both public opinion and Canadian policy on global warming, including the international Kyoto Accord."
And here's a few more that provide evidence of linkage.
http://www.desmogblog.com/search/nod...nds+of+science
http://www.desmogblog.com/news-alert...nds-of-science
http://www.dobmagazine.nickles.com/c...06_UC0000.html
http://www.desmogblog.com/friends-of...entific-clique
http://www.desmogblog.com/good-enoug...-philip-morris
http://www.desmogblog.com/another-qu...nds-of-science
I can keep going.