{"id":9530,"date":"2015-06-29T07:58:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T12:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9530"},"modified":"2015-06-29T07:58:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T12:58:29","slug":"chicken-little-meet-the-friends-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9530","title":{"rendered":"Chicken Little Meet the Friends of Science"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chicken Little Meet the Friends of Science<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Canada’s leading climate conspiracy theorists, the\u00a0Friends of Science<\/a>,\u00a0are out this week with a critique on climate change that would make even Chicken Little\u00a0blush.<\/p>\n

In a\u00a0press release<\/a>\u00a0issued Thursday, the Friends of Science state that if plans\u00a0proceed\u00a0to move our country away from carbon-intensive fuel sources like oil and coal, \u201cCanada would have to be completely shut down in order to reach the emissions reduction targets, leaving millions of Canadians\u00a0unemployed.\u201d<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Friends of Science<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0are no stranger to hyperbole, which is on full-display on the homepage of\u00a0their website<\/a>\u00a0promoting all sorts of pseudo-scientific climate science conspiracy\u00a0claims.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0FOS<\/span>\u00a0is also no stranger to\u00a0controversy.<\/p>\n

Many longtime DeSmog readers will know that a few years ago this group was\u00a0outed in an investigative piece<\/a>\u00a0by the Globe and Mail for its ties to the Alberta oil patch and Conservative Prime Minister Stephen\u00a0Harper.<\/p>\n

I am reluctantt to address these latest Chicken Little claims by the Friends of Science, because arguing back at them is exactly what they want and could be mistaken for a sliver of a legitimate place in the debate about how to solve the issue of climate change and transition the world from polluting fossil fuels to clean\u00a0energy.<\/p>\n

And quite frankly,\u00a0as I pointed out last week<\/a>, a group like the\u00a0FOS<\/span>\u00a0who still readily claim that climate change is \u201cbig green propaganda\u201d and nothing to be concerned about, has no place in a debate about how to deal with a problem they don’t .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Chicken Little Meet the Friends of Science Canada’s leading climate conspiracy theorists, the\u00a0Friends of Science,\u00a0are out this week with a critique on climate change that would make even Chicken Little\u00a0blush. In a\u00a0press release\u00a0issued Thursday, the Friends of Science state that if plans\u00a0proceed\u00a0to move our country away from carbon-intensive fuel sources like oil and coal, \u201cCanada […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1082,103,6819,141,992,2956,5317,6820,3356,749],"class_list":["post-9530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-alberta","tag-canada","tag-chicken-little","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-change-denial","tag-climate-science","tag-desmog-blog","tag-friends-of-science","tag-oil-patch","tag-stephen-harper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9531,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9530\/revisions\/9531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}