Tom Harris of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project (http://www.NRSP.com) sent this along to me for our information. I’ve long been a fan their work and that of his partner, the preeminent climate scientist Dr. Timothy Ball, who has been mentioned here several times before (by our columnist Ann Coulter in her column, “The Coming Ass Age”, in much same context as I have in promoting The Great Global Warming Swindle film. Our columnist Salim Mansur also mentioned it here.
This is also posted in our News Releases section now. And see some related articles below.
NRSP to hold Governments Accountable for Environmental Review Processes
OTTAWA, April 18 /CNW Telbec/ – The Natural Resources Stewardship Project (http://www.NRSP.com) announces the launch of its second campaign, the “Science Audit Centre”.
Like NRSP’s first and on-going initiative, “Understanding Climate Change”, audit centre activities will be led by NRSP Chair, Dr. Timothy Ball. As an environmental consultant and past climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg, Dr. Ball has, for many years, conducted environmental science reviews, most specifically related to climate change, water management and pollution control.
“Governments must be held more publicly accountable for their environmental policy decisions,” said Dr. Ball. “Their plans must be subject to unbiased, transparent and scientifically rigorous hearing processes in which experts from all sides of environmental issues are invited to testify along with the affected parties.”
While NRSP will tackle a variety of topics as part of the Science Audit Centre campaign, it is particularly concerned that government strategies designed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions are not being subject to appropriate review by leading experts. As a consequence, costly plans are being forced onto taxpayers without appropriate consideration of their actual implications for the country.
“Tax dollars must not be squandered on feel-good ‘green’ plans that have little basis in real science,” said Dr. Ball. “This approach only hurts the economy by diverting tax dollars away from important environmental issues where attention is needed.”
The recent committee hearings into the federal government’s Clean Air Act and the Kyoto Implementation Bill are prime examples of politicized processes that entirely excluded experts on one side of the issue. These hearings were symptomatic of an overarching problem in society – the yielding of government and industry to the frequently unreasonable and groundless demands of environmental activists.
NRSP will select a range of current policy decisions and focus on the actual environmental science review processes used. The intent is to highlight good processes and bad processes, and ultimately to ensure that an effective peer-reviewed mechanism – a science audit centre – is established. Similar to fiscal auditing of decision-making, this is intended to ensure that where governments use science as the rationale for decisions, the science is in fact peer-reviewed, the process is transparent, and the range of views in the scientific community on the issue is properly considered.
For further information: about NRSP, or to set up interviews with NRSP participants, please visit http://www.nrsp.com or contact:
Tom Harris, Executive Director, NRSP, (613) 234-4487,
[email protected]or
Timothy F. Ball, PhD, Chairman, NRSP, (250) 380-7784,
[email protected]—30—
On a somewhat related news item:
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