Media Release

NRSP launches ‘Unreliable Sources’ initiative

CBC climate science coverage first under the microscope

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Ottawa , Canada , November 26, 2007 – The Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP) announces the launch of its ‘Unreliable Sources’ initiative to help counter the steady stream of climate science misinformation emanating from mass media, politicians, lobby groups and industry.

In an effort to help the public differentiate fact from fiction, rational science-based forecasts from sensationalist speculation, NRSP scientists will now regularly correct climate science misrepresentations being disseminated from the aforementioned sources. Whether it is the ill-founded claims of Al Gore and environmental lobby groups or the unscientific exaggerations of the World Nuclear Association, it is now more important than ever that a rational alternative point of view concerning the science of climate change is presented regularly – that is the purpose of NRSP’s “Contesting ‘Unreliable Sources’” project.

While the scope of this initiative will eventually cover the full spectrum of information sources mentioned above, NRSP will first examine the coverage being given the climate science issue by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s (CBC) television, radio and Website. CBC is first under the microscope of NRSP scientists because of the network’s intense focus on the climate change issue, coverage that is often among the most biased in the English-speaking world. As a publicly funded entity, the CBC is responsible to the people of Canada to uphold a strict set of “Journalistic Standards and Practices” but is clearly failing to do so in its coverage of climate science.

For more information about this initiative visit http://www.nrsp.com/unreliable sources.html or contact:

Timothy F. Ball, PhD

Chairman, NRSP

Phone: 250-380-7784

Fax: 250-380-7776

e-mail: timothyball@shaw.ca

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or 

Tom Harris, B. Eng., M. Eng.

Executive Director, NRSP

P.O. Box 23013

Ottawa, Ontario K2A 4E2

Phone: 613-234-4487

e-mail: tom.harris@nrsp.com

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