Climate Spin Machines

Surprise surprise, the Fraser Institute and other related climate change science deniers like the humorously labelled Friends of Science are busy as ever trying to put a finger in the PR dike.

On Mike Duffy live this afternoon a ridiculous performance by Madhav Khandekar, a former meteorologist and member of the FOS scientific advisory board. He as much as said that climate change is bogus, and even if it were real, we should look forward to it. Nice performance Madhav, perhaps you could audition for a job as the press secretary for David Emerson or Wajid Khan?

FOS: Funded by the oil and gas industry, apparently through a back-door scheme. According to desmogblog.com, the University of Calgary link likely points to a long time Stephen Harper confidant, Prof. Dr. Barry Cooper.

Harper, and Day before him, and Preston Manning before Day, have been denying climate change for over a decade and have done everything in their power to prevent substantive political progress on this issue. I see no reason to believe they’ve changed their spots overnight, particularly when ideological soul-mates like the folks at the Fraser Institute are still lobbying for the “do nothing” approach favoured by the oil and gas sector and big industrial concerns.