Oil Companies Funding Friends of Science, Tim Ball takes the brunt

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A Globe and Mail feature article by Charles Montgomery todayย  has delivered what should be a death blow for the climate change denial and anti-Kyoto attack group, the Friends of Science.

The G&M says that FOS has taken undisclosed sums from Alberta oil and gas interests. The money was funneled through the Calgary Foundation, to the University of Calgary and on to the FOS though something called the โ€œScience Education Fund.โ€

All this appears to be orchestrated by Stephen Harperโ€™s long-time political confidante and fishing buddy, U. Calgary Prof Dr. Barry Cooper. It seems the FOS has taken a page right out of the US climate change attack groupโ€™s playbook: funnel money through foundations and third party groups to โ€œwipe the oilโ€ off the dollars they receive.

This comes as no surprise considering the FOS has been linked to some of the most notorious oil money-backed scientists in the US, including Drs. S. Fred Singer, Sallie Baliunas, Sherwood Idso, Willie Soon, Robert C. Balling and Pat Michaels.

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