47,869
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
m
NRSP lists as "allied experts" a number of climate change sceptics from North America, Australia, New Zealand, Holland, Germany, England and Sweden. [http://www.nrsp.com/people.html]
----
Text replacement - "{{#badges:" to "{{Show badges|"
{{Show badges| Climate change |Front groups}}The '''Natural Resources Stewardship Project''' (NRSP), a Canadian non-profit group, including a number of leading [[climate change sceptics]], was launched October 12, 2006. [http://www.nrsp.com/release_12-10-06.html]The website for the site, nrsp.com, was taken down in March 2008<ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.archive.org/web/20080314105821/http://www.nrsp.com/ |title=Understanding Climate Change: The Natural Resources Stewardship Project reconsiders the Kyoto Protocol (Kyoto Accord) and Canada's environmental policy. |publisher=web.archive.org |accessdate=2009-11-01 }}</ref> and the group now appears to be defunct.
The NRSP has been exposed as being controlled by [[energy industry]] [[lobbyist]]s. [<ref>{{cite web |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=tQYjQzOkYK0C&pg=PA2&dq=climate+coverup+hoggan&lr=&ei=ySngStfcGoLskQTlzYyFAQ#v=onepage&q=nrsp&f=false |title=Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to ... - Google Books |publisher=books.google.com |accessdate=2009-10-23 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.desmogblog.com/nrsp-controlled-by-energy-lobbyists]|title=Jim Hoggan | NRSP Controlled by Energy Lobbyists |publisher=www.desmogblog.com |accessdate=2009-10-23 }}</ref>
NRSP describes itself as a group that "will promote responsible environmental stewardship through:
* market-based approaches; and
* sensible and efficient legislative and regulatory frameworks, particularly at the federal level." [http://www.nrsp.com/background.html#6]
==NRSP's Genealogy==
NRSP Chairman Tim Ball, Baliunas and Patterson and are all members of the [[Friends of Science]]'s Science Advisory Board, while Murty is a former FoS Board member.
===Allied Experts===
NRSP lists as "allied experts" a number of climate change sceptics from North America, Australia, New Zealand, Holland, Germany, England and Sweden. [http://web.archive.org/web/20080312082838/www.nrsp.com/people.html] These experts included [[Paul Copper]], [[Madhav Khandekar]], [[Rob Scagel]], [[Tad Murty]], [[Garth Paltridge]], [[Ian Plimer]], [[Gary Sharp]], [[Lee Gerhard]], [[S. Fred Singer|Fred Singer]], [[David Legates]], [[Nils-Axel Mörner]], [[Richard Lindzen]], [[Robert Balling]], [[Alfred Pekarek| Al Pekarek]], [[Wibjörn Karlén]], [[Peter Dietze]], [[Hans Erren]], [[Hans H.J. Labohm |Hans Labohm]], [[David E. Wojick| David Wojick]], [[Art Robinson]], [[Hugh Ellsaesser]], [[Howard Hayden]], [[Zbigniew Jaworowski]], and [[Richard Courtney]].
==NRSP Activities==
===Bali open letter to U.N.===
On Dec. 13, 20082007, towards the end of the U.N. climate change conference held in Bali, indonesia, the Financial Post section of the National Post published an open letter to the UN signed by over a hundred climate change skeptics under the title "Don't fight, adapt" [http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=164002], along with the list of signatories [http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=164004]. The letter casts doubt on the [[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]] (IPCC) "hypothesis of dangerous human-caused global warming", and argues that current climate change is within natural variations.
In an accompanying commentary by FP editor Terence Corcoran, headlined "A new call to reason," Corcoran describes this letter as having been "signed by more than 100 specialists" and having been "assembled under Robert M. Carter, a professor at the Marine Geophysical Laboratory of James Cook University in Australia." [http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=164001]. Corcoran did not mention the role of the NRSP, nor the fact that Carter is one of the NRSP's scientific advisors.
In the runup to the Bali conference, an e-mail was circulated by the NRSP soliciting potential signatories of the open letter. On Dec. 6, 2008, a week before the publication of the open letter, the text of e-mail was posted at canadafreepress.com, freedominion.ca and bogotafreeplanet.com. The text has been removed from the Canadian websites, but remains remained for some time at bogatafreeplanet.com. [http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/article/196] That text is now also missing, but the original web page has been archived at DeepClimate.org [http://deepclimate.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/bali-open-letter-solicit-nrsp-tom-harris-bob-carter1.pdf]
The NRSP e-mail clearly clearly suggests that a deal had already been struck to have the letter published in the National Post: "It is intended that this [open letter to the UN] ... will also be published by a major media outlet towards the end of the current UN Conference on Climate Change in Bali,Indonesia."
"a) Terence Corcoran played a key role in an expertly organized and well funded public relations campaign designed to discredit the work of the IPCC and indeed the entire UNFCCC process.
"b) Even worse, Corcoran deliberately witheld information about the role of the NRSP in the open letter, and misled National Post readers about the true provenance of the letter." [httphttps://www.sourcewatch.org/images/1/17/National_Post_Email_1.pdf]
The e-mail asserts that Corcoran's behaviour "is a clear breach of journalistic ethics and damages the credibility of the National Post" and exhorts Kelly to publish a full correction and to consider appropriate sanctions against Corcoran including suspension or dismissal.
According to an October 16, 2006, CanWest News article, journalist Peter O'Neill asked Harris about who financially backs the NRSP. O'Neill reported that, according to Harris, "a confidentiality agreement doesn't allow him to say whether energy companies are funding his [the NRSP] group." [http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=4399cb65-c847-4d63-ac8c-21c045ec90ed&k=50786]
Subsequently, Harris stated that there was no "confidentiality agreement". He also insisted that "it is normal for non-profit entities like NRSP to protect the privacy of supporters by not publicizing contributions." [httphttps://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Talk:Natural_Resources_Stewardship_Project#Reasons_for_major_edits_in_this_entry]
"This is necessary given the nature of the issues we address and the fact that most people do not want to be harassed by lobbyists for support of our activities," he wrote in an edit to an earlier version of this article. [httphttps://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Natural_Resources_Stewardship_Project&oldid=162157#Funding]
However, Harris declined to indicate any instance of where disclosure of funders had led to harassment or why secrecy of corporate contributions was appropriate.
Email: tom.harris AT nrsp.com<br>
==Articles and resources=====Related SourceWatch Resources===
*[[An Inconvenient Truth]]
*[[climate change]]
*[[sustainable development]]
=== External links articles=======Profiles====
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Resources_Stewardship_Project Natural Resources Stewardship Project] in the ''Wikipedia''.
*Bob McKeown, [http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/denialmachine/index.html "The Denial Machine,"] CBC News: ''the fifth estate'' (Canada), aired November 16, 2006. See [http://community.livejournal.com/boiling_frog/25574.html comment] by Tom Harris on ''LiveJournal.com''.
====NRSP News Releases and Correspondence====
*[http://www.nrsp.com/release_12-10-06.html "Science-based Environment Group Preparing for Launch. Scientists Ready to Speak about Climate Change Realities,"] NRSP, October 12, 2006.
*[http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/October2006/19/c2383.html "Clean Air Act an improvement on what we had before, but problems remain, says new environment group NRSP,"] CNW Telbec, October 19, 2006.
*[http://www.nhinsider.com/nhigb/2006/12/10/ams-council-amend-draft-statement-on-climate-change.html "AMS Council, Amend Draft Statement on Climate Change"] dated December 10, 2006; posted by Andrea Saul at ''NH Insider''.
====Articles by NRSP Staff & Members====
*Fred Michel, [http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=3711460e-bd5a-475d-a6be-4db87559d60 "Open Kyoto to debate Sixty scientists call on Harper to revisit the science of global warming,"] ''National Post'' (Canada), April 6, 2006.
*Tom Harris, [http://tribes.tribe.net/globalwarming-thelie/thread/8213eae2-b85e-48cd-8c02-1bb03e4488a8 "Scientists Throwing Cold Water on Theories of Climate Catastrophe,"] Canadian Free Press, June 4, 2006.
*Timothy Ball, [http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/global-warming020507.htm "Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts?"] Canada Free Press, February 5, 2007.
====Articles & Commentary on the NRSP=========2005=====
*[http://www.desmogblog.com/search/node/Tim+Ball Archived links on Tim Ball] posted by ''[[DeSmogBlog]]''.
*[http://www.environmentaldefense.org/article.cfm?contentid=3804&CFID=21084385&CFTOKEN=29888831 "Global Warming Skeptics: A Primer. Guess Who's Funding the Global Warming Doubt Shops?"] [[Environmental Defense]], October 25, 2005. Relates to staff and Science Advisory Board members.
=====2006=====
*Richard Littlemore, [http://www.desmogblog.com/discredited-friends-of-science-emerge-as-the-natural-resources-stewardship-project "Discredited Friends of Science Re-emerge as the Natural Resources Stewardship Project,"] ''DeSmogBlog'', October 12, 2006.
*Richard Littlemore, [http://www.desmogblog.com/lonely-nrsp-experts-shouting-into-the-wind "Lonely NRSP 'experts' Shouting into the Wind,"] ''DeSmogBlog'', December 5, 2006.
=====2007=====
*Mike Byfield, [http://www.dobmagazine.nickles.com/columns/pulse.asp?article=magazine%2Fcolumns%2F070108%2FMAG_COL2007_J80004.html "The Greening Of Stephen Harper,"] ''DOB Magazine'', January 8, 2007.
*M.J. Murphy, [http://bigcitylib.blogspot.com/2007/01/climate-change-deniers-get-political.html "Climate Change Deniers Get Political,"] ''BigCityLib Strikes Back'' Blogspot, January 10, 2007.
*Eugene Plawiuk, [http://plawiuk.blogspot.com/2007/02/fraser-institutes-flat-earth-report.html "Fraser Institutes Flat Earth Report,"] ''Le Revue Gauche'' Blogspot, February 5, 2007.
===References==={{reflist}} [[Category:Canada]][[Category:Global warmingClimate change]][[categoryCategory:environmentEnvironment]][[categoryCategory:front Front groups]]
