10/30/2026
What a lucrative scam: create a non-profit, funded by Alberta’s oil and gas industry, to spread science disinformation. THEN claim ‘donations’ to this non-profit on your taxes, and get ALL taxpayers to subsidize your ‘donation’. And do it all through a university that is willing to stoop to any new low.
I had thought this fossil fuel funded science disinformation traveling roadshow from the University of Calgary, ludicrously named ‘Friends of Science’, had careened off a cliff years ago, never to be seen again.
But here it is, back from the dead...or from hibernating up Barry Cooper’s backside...to relive those days of 2007, when oil companies (I mean the 'Friends of Science') put up billboards saying 'The Sun was the only thing making things warmer on the planet.'
And to inform ‘Alberta Nation’ readers, and anybody else looking to be fed lies to cope with cognitive dissonance, the really bad news that if they’re lost in the woods, and have to bunker down for the night. There is no point in building a shelter and fire to protect yourself, ‘cuz humans have no control over the climate. Your survival is all in God’s hands now. Just believe, and Pray for fire. And another oil boom. Amen n Gob Less.’