Media Advisory: Climate Change Denial in Carleton University Course Exposed by National Science Team
February 29, 2012
Media Advisory: Climate Change Denial in Carleton University Course Exposed by National Science Team
OTTAWA, ONTARIO—(Marketwire - Feb. 29, 2012) -
A science watchdog has released a report slamming a course taught at a
leading Canadian university over what they call “biased and inaccurate”
claims concerning climate change
The course “Climate Change: An Earth Sciences Perspective”, taught by Tom Harris for two years, is the subject of a 98-page report written by the Committee for the Advancement of Scientific Skepticism (CASS).
The report constitutes a blow-by-blow response citing extensively from the scientific literature to rebut 142 erroneous and fully-quoted claims.
On auditing the course, CASS discovered that key messages for students contradict accepted scientific opinion. These messages include:
denying that current climate change has an anthropogenic cause; dismissing the problems that carbon dioxide emissions cause because CO2 is plant food; denying the existence of the scientific consensus on the causes of climate change; and claiming that we should prepare instead for global cooling.
A copy of the report can be downloaded at www.scientificskepticism.ca.
The Committee for the Advancement of Scientific Skepticism critically engages with scientific, technological and medical claims made in public discourse. With a panel of expert advisers and volunteers, CASS addresses factual inaccuracies and misinformation in public debates by promoting evidence-based science. CASS is a working group of the Centre for Inquiry Canada, the leading free-thought organization in Canada promoting reason, science, secularism and freedom of inquiry.
Contact Information
Committee for the Advancement of Scientific Skepticism
Dr. Christopher Hassall
(613) 869-3880
cass@cficanada.ca
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