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==NRSP Activities==
The NRSP has pursued its "grassroots" campaign on climate change through online and print articles, letters to the editor, open-line radio appearances and a 2007 radio campaign in Canada and the U.S. The group also organized the Bali open letter signed by 100 climate change skeptics and published in the National Post. [http://www.nrsp.com/releases/release-07.12.14.html][http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=164002]
===Bali open letter to U.N.===
On Dec. 13, 2008, 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]. 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]
In fact, the letter was organized by the Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP), a body dedicated to discrediting the scientific consensus on climate change theory. Carter is not just a concerned "specialist" but is on the NRSP's Science Advisory Committee. And internet documents show that Corcoran agreed to disseminate this letter and allowed the National Post to play a role in the organization's PR campaign.
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