Global warming critics appointed to science boards

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OTTAWA — Top Canadian scientists are accusing the Harper government of politicizing science funding and jeopardizing climate research by naming global warming critics to key boards that fund science.

The government's actions are "dreadful," said Garry Clarke, a leading international glaciologist at the University of British Columbia, and undercut public pledges to tackle climate change.

"Their mouths are doing one thing and their hands are doing something different," Prof. Clarke said.

Already alarmed over funding cuts to basic research, scientists say two appointments in particular are worrisome. Mark Mullins, the executive director of the conservative-leaning Fraser Institute — and a former adviser to the Canadian Alliance Party — was recently appointed to the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), which funds university research projects that have included studies on climate change.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090511.wscience11/BNStory/politics/

Not long until we have funding for beliefs.

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1. Further to our anti-science trend under Harper.