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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Attention:
News Editors, Political Reporters, Science and Environment
Reporters
MEDIA RELEASE
NRSP launches
‘Unreliable Sources’ initiative
CBC climate science coverage
first under the microscope
Ottawa , Canada , November
26, 2007 – The Natural Resources Stewardship
Project (NRSP) announces the launch of its ‘Unreliable
Sources’ initiative to help counter the steady stream
of climate science misinformation emanating from mass
media, politicians, lobby groups and industry.
In an effort to help the public differentiate
fact from fiction, rational science-based forecasts from
sensationalist speculation, NRSP scientists will now regularly
correct climate science misrepresentations being disseminated
from the aforementioned sources. Whether it is the ill-founded
claims of Al Gore and environmental lobby groups or the
unscientific exaggerations of the World Nuclear Association,
it is now more important than ever that a rational alternative
point of view concerning the science of climate change
is presented regularly – that is the purpose of NRSP’s
“Contesting ‘Unreliable Sources’” project.
While the scope of this initiative will
eventually cover the full spectrum of information sources
mentioned above, NRSP will first examine the coverage
being given the climate science issue by the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation’s (CBC) television, radio and
Website. CBC is first under the microscope of NRSP scientists
because of the network’s intense focus on the climate
change issue, coverage that is often among the most biased
in the English-speaking world. As a publicly funded entity,
the CBC is responsible to the people of Canada to uphold
a strict set of “Journalistic
Standards and Practices” but is clearly failing to
do so in its coverage of climate science.
For more information about this initiative
visit http://www.nrsp.com/unreliable
sources.html or contact:
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