While it has aggressively slammed environmental groups for using
foreign dollars to finance a small portion of their budgets, Prime
Minister Stephen Harper's government is being tight-lipped about
revelations that climate change skeptics in Canada are getting money
from an American think-tank with corporate funding.
Newly released documents have revealed three Canadians were part of a network of academics receiving monthly payments from the Chicago-based Heartland Institute as part of its advocacy work to cast doubt on scientific evidence linking human activity to global warming observed in recent decades.
Two of the three Canadians mentioned in the internal records have confirmed they were getting paid by the Heartland Institute.
"There's nothing secret about it," said Madhav Khandekar, a retired meteorologist based in the Toronto region who was getting about $1,000 per month from the think-tank. "This is a sort of stipend that I get for doing the literature review and providing commentaries on the website. It is posted for people to read."
The think-tank was tricked into releasing its internal budget records to an environmental scientist and advocate who attempted to impersonate a board member with a fake email address in February. The Heartland Institute has publicly argued that regulations to improve environmental performance or protection would be a waste of resources since it doubts the scientific basis for action.
Read more: http://www.canada.com/technology/Feds+discreet+about+foreign+funding+climate+skeptics/6290316/story.html
Newly released documents have revealed three Canadians were part of a network of academics receiving monthly payments from the Chicago-based Heartland Institute as part of its advocacy work to cast doubt on scientific evidence linking human activity to global warming observed in recent decades.
Two of the three Canadians mentioned in the internal records have confirmed they were getting paid by the Heartland Institute.
"There's nothing secret about it," said Madhav Khandekar, a retired meteorologist based in the Toronto region who was getting about $1,000 per month from the think-tank. "This is a sort of stipend that I get for doing the literature review and providing commentaries on the website. It is posted for people to read."
The think-tank was tricked into releasing its internal budget records to an environmental scientist and advocate who attempted to impersonate a board member with a fake email address in February. The Heartland Institute has publicly argued that regulations to improve environmental performance or protection would be a waste of resources since it doubts the scientific basis for action.
Read more: http://www.canada.com/technology/Feds+discreet+about+foreign+funding+climate+skeptics/6290316/story.html
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