In light of a recent column of mine about what I suggested was a liberal-left sponsorship scandal of another kind—this one in the broadcast industry in Canada—and my ongoing battle to wake Canadians up about the ridiculous junk science and political science (hi David Suzuki!) surrounding the Kyoto accord, I found this article very interesting. It would seem to combine both of my thoughts into one, and provide a few more facts along the way. Liberals are against that (facts, I mean—oh and my bringing them to your attention).
Hat tip to CanadaFreePress with whom I have a long-standing “blanket” permission to reprint items.
Kyoto Protocol—Propaganda or Censorship?
by Garth Pritchard, Canadafreepress.com
Saturday, May 7, 2005Last Thursday, I received a telephone call from Douglas Leahey, Ph.D., representing a group of Canadian scientists under the umbrella of “Friends of Science.” It seems that they had been talking to Peter Worthington of the Toronto Sun, and he had mentioned to them that they should get in touch with me.
Dr. Leahey began by asking me how they could get a 27-minute documentary on television.
I have 15 years experience of fighting with federal and provincial slush funds for that very thing.
I asked some routine questions at first: Did they have a letter of licence? Had they rolled a camera before they got permission? Had they talked to the big broadcasters? Did they have a “pitch” and a budget?
Then I found out what their documentary was about. The story was incredible: it documented scientists—from Canada—speaking out against the $10-billion scam known as the Kyoto Protocol.
Yes, the very same Kyoto Accord that our government has committed Canada and Canadians to support.
I understood instinctively that getting two scientists to agree at what time the sun is coming up tomorrow is—at best—difficult.
But here were tens of thousands, from around the world, all agreeing on one issue: that there is no scientific evidence of man-made global warming.
The numbers of scientists staggered me—17,100 basic and applied American scientists, two thirds with advanced degrees, are against the Kyoto Agreement. The Heidelberg Appeal—which states that there is no scientific evidence for man-made global warming, has been signed by over 4,000 scientists from around the world since the petition’s inception. I strongly questioned these high numbers, since I’ve had benefit of the Canadian government’s public relations machine on this issue. Dr. Leahey has since sent documentation to back his figures up.
All those scientists were in total agreement: the Kyoto Protocol was complete fiction.
The scientists are so committed to fighting the Kyoto Accord and its misrepresentation of the truth, that they produced a 27-minute documentary and paid for its production with their own money.
The research, the study, the organization, the production of a documentary — those efforts made up the easy part. The tough part was to get it in front of the Canadian people.
The big broadcasters had denied them “the switch” as we call it in the industry: the ability to put it on television for Canadians to see. “Not of broadcast quality,” they sneered.
I met with four of the scientists. They showed me the piece. The information held in this 27-minutes should be required viewing for all Canadians. Yet here we have the national broadcasters saying “No”—refusing to broadcast scientific evidence of an important national issue.
Why?
Some of the smartest people in this country had come up against the keepers of the gates, when it comes to Canadian television. You will never hear their names, but they are the ones who pick and choose all documentaries that Canadians will get to see.
The Canadian government created an entity known as Telefilm and the Canadian Television Fund—a $250-million slush fund of taxpayers’ dollars. A bureaucracy that in theory provides funds for the creation of Canadian programming. Hidden in this monolith are a few interesting rules:
- If you roll a camera before you get permission from them, you are not eligible for any funding.
- You must have a letter of licence from a broadcaster to qualify for funding.
- You can only apply twice a year.
Obviously, the scientists had contravened all of these rules. They had even paid to make the documentary with their own money. This is definitely a faux pas! I speak with considerable authority here.
Now, here they are with some of the most important information Canadians need to know about their climate—their very life’s breath—and they can’t tell Canadians.
The information they are trying to tell us runs absolutely in the face of that government information carried so thoroughly and convincingly by our national broadcasters, complete with the ads that most of us have seen—you know, the tonnes of matter in the air, you can cut down emissions, take the one tonne challenge, etc.
The national broadcasters are not going to run the documentary the scientists have produced.
This past weekend, in conjunction with the Alberta Motion Picture Industry Association awards, representatives of the major broadcasters met with groups of independent local producers in 45-minute sessions to dictate what types of programming they were looking for in the upcoming seasons.
Canada’s best and brightest producers and directors (scientists included) have to “pitch” their envisioned documentary, using a two-page prÃ
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