Good News: Friends of Science Running Out of Friends

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The most recent newsletter from the Calgary-based oil-industry front, the Friends of Science, offers two bits of hearteningย news:

First, FOS reports that โ€œOur financial support is presently approaching an all time low.โ€ This suggests that FOS will soon run out of money to send โ€œClimate Catastrophe Cancelledโ€ videos that are misrepresented as works of โ€œscienceโ€ endorsed by the University of Calgary. Which leads to the second piece of goodย news.

FOS, which has spent much of the year pitching and then putting off a โ€œnational meetingโ€ on the debate about climate change has postponed it yet again. FOS explains: โ€œThe
University of Calgary in early September unexpectedly cancelled its support of the meeting which had to be subsequently postponed for an indefiniteย period.โ€

The university’s most recent โ€œunexpectedโ€ effort to distance itself from FOS followed a February 2007 statement in which U of C Vice President for External Affairs Roman Cooney said: โ€œThe University of Calgary has long-standing and publicly-stated concerns about Friends of Science using the University of Calgary’s name to infer that it has the University’s endorsement. Our response has included cease-and-desist directives to the Friends of Science from the University’s legal counsel. Most recently, following a reference to the University of Calgary in a newsletter from the head of Friends of Science โ€ฆ and under caution of legal action, I insisted that the Friends of Science provide the attached letter to clarify its relationship to the University ofย Calgary.โ€

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