[Vision2020] "If it’s Not Evil, Fraser Institute Should Open Its Books" Re: Junk Climate Science Film "Not Evil, Just Wrong"

[Ted Moffett]

I must be having an impact, however small, in my efforts to promote public
awareness of credible peer reviewed climate science regarding anthropogenic
climate change... Thanks for everyone's support, including the skeptics, who
help to monitor science publishing and reporting for possibly economically
or politically biased conformism regarding climate science analysis, coming
from either those promoting aggressive action to mitigate anthropogenic
warming, or those claiming this is an unwise course of action.

http://www.desmogblog.com/if-it%E2%80%99s-not-evil-fraser-institute-should-open-its-books

>From web site above:

If it’s Not Evil, Fraser Institute should open its
books<http://www.desmogblog.com/if-it%E2%80%99s-not-evil-fraser-institute-should-open-its-books>

We sent this out to our Canadian media distribution list. Will be
interesting to see if the journalists who cover this *Not Evil Just Wrong *film
ask the tough questions.

Here's the release we put out:

The Fraser Institute has announced its support of a new film called *Not
Evil Just Wrong*, which denies the realities of human-caused climate change.
The producers of the film and the Fraser Institute must come clean on their
motivations.

This isn’t the first time the producers of the film *Not Evil Just
Wrong*have pushed out a pro-industry propaganda film. Their last
effort was a
pro-coal mining film called *Mine Your Own Business, *billed as a portrayal
of the dark side of environmentalism and its campaign to halt mining
development in third world countries.

It was later revealed that* Mine* *Your Own Business* was sponsored by
Gabriel Resources, a Canadian mining company that was attempting to set up a
gold strip mine in the Romanian village that was the subject of the film.

The Fraser Institute, an industry-backed think tank based in Vancouver, BC,
is promoting the debut of the film, apparently as part of an ongoing
campaign to lobby against action on climate change. (The Institute had
sponsored cross-Canada tours by U.K. contrarians Nigel Lawson and
Christopher Monckton within the last two weeks.)

This also tracks with a longer record of climate change contrarianism on the
Institute’s behalf. It has frequently promoted speakers who deny or minimize
the likely effects of climate change, and it sponsored a major attack on the
last report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Although not forthcoming about the source of its funding, the Institute is
also known to be a frequent recipient of grants from the fossil fuel
industry. For instance, they have received $120,000 from oil giant
ExxonMobil <http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=107> for
work on climate change. The Fraser Institute has often called on government
to increase openness and transparency – whether of Labour Relations
Boards<http://www.fraserinstitute.org/researchandpublications/publications/3097.aspx>,
Hospitals <http://www.fraserinstitute.org/reportcards/hospitalperformance/>,
or Schools <http://www.fraserinstitute.org/reportcards/schoolperformance/> -
so such transparency should also be followed by the Fraser Institute.
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