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A recent magazine article in ''This Magazine'' had an extensive piece on how [[National Public Relations]], along with the oil and gas industry, manufactured and coined the phrase "Made in Canada" in relation to climate change. [http://www.thismagazine.ca/issues/2006/09/]
===Video claims===
====Discrepancy between satellite and surface temperature record====
At 2:44 of part 1 of the CCC video, FoS advisor Tim Patterson discusses the satellite-derived temperature record.
"On the other hand, satellites provide comprehensive coverage of the earth 24-7 for the last twenty years. And so what they have demonstrated is that there has been an almost imperceptible rise in temperature over this time."
The accompanying graph shows satellite and surface trends from 1980 to the end of 2000. No attribution is given, but the satellite data appears to be an early version of the UAH data series, with an apparent linear trend of .04 deg. C per decade. This is the trend that was cited in the IPCC Third Assessment Report, published in 2001.
But in a later segment discussing the El Nino year of 1998, another graph is given with surface and UAH satellite data to 2004, labeled clearly with the presumably less "imperceptible" linear trend of 0.08 deg. C per decade (double that in the previous graph).
RSS satellite data sets were first published in 2001; by July, 2004, the RSS trend stood at 0.13 deg. C per decade. Other available estimates at that time from Vinsky-Grodny (0.22) and Fu (0.19) were even higher. None of these estimates were mentioned in the video.
In 2005, major progress was made in refining the satellite-derived estimates. In addition, a major error was discovered in the UAH calculations, and the UAH linear trend was raised yet again, to 0.12 deg. per decade, as compared to 0.19 for RSS. These estimates were cited in the IPCC 4AR, and compared to surface temperature trends ranging from 0.15 to 0.18 deg per decade. [
By 2007, the UAH and RSS had converged even more and stood at 0.14 and 0.18 deg. per decade respectively [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_temperature_measurements]. Yet the second edition of the video, released in late 2007, has retained exactly the same narration, still referring "an almost imperceptible rise in temperature".
==2006 election radio ads==
