{"id":440,"date":"2009-12-16T09:35:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T14:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightoncanada.ca\/?p=440"},"modified":"2009-12-16T09:35:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T14:35:23","slug":"ottawa-funding-group-that-promotes-work-of-climate-change-skeptics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/?p=440","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa funding group that promotes work of climate-change skeptics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/canadianpress\/article\/ALeqM5hOavBcwR8GDRKSF35tMpoirv0XKw\">The Canadian Press<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Date: Monday Dec. 14, 2009 4:37 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>MONTREAL \u2014 Ottawa has been funding an asbestos lobby group that promotes the work of prominent climate-change skeptics.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation comes as Canada&#8217;s delegation struggles to avoid being cast as the villain at the Copenhagen climate conference, and environmentalists are urging the government to stop financing the group.<\/p>\n<p>On its website, the Chrysotile Institute promotes a chapter that it says debunks the asbestos health-risk hoax from the 2007 book titled Scared to Death &#8212; From BSE to Global Warming: Why Scares Are Costing Us the Earth.<\/p>\n<p>But Chrysotile Institute president Clement Godbout says his organization actually has no position about the book&#8217;s chapter on climate change.<\/p>\n<p>He says his group is only promoting the book for outlining how the science of asbestos, and its potential health risks, have been systematically exaggerated by the &#8220;anti-asbestos lobby.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The book was written by prominent British newspaper columnist Christopher Booker and co-author Richard North.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa has been frequently knocked by opponents for cutting cash to organizations that believe in fighting climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The Sierra Club of Canada now urges the government to stop funding the Chrysotile Institute, which has received more than $20 million from the federal government since 1984.<\/p>\n<p>It says Canadian taxpayers are financing an organization that promotes bad science about the dangers of asbestos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Press Date: Monday Dec. 14, 2009 4:37 PM ET MONTREAL \u2014 Ottawa has been funding an asbestos lobby group that promotes the work of prominent climate-change skeptics. The revelation comes as Canada&#8217;s delegation struggles to avoid being cast as the villain at the Copenhagen climate conference, and environmentalists are urging the government to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[63,21,61,64,65],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christopher-booker","tag-chrysotile-institute","tag-clement-godbout","tag-richard-north","tag-rra-club-of-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}