Calgary, Alberta, Canada (PRWEB) February 12, 2013 "Should the
Eco-activists be allowed to shut down the US economy based on
faulty science?" asks Len Maier, President of Friends of
Science, a climate science review organization. “Science should
edify, not terrify people," says Maier. "The oil sands and
Keystone XL Pipeline offer Americans an estimated 343,000 new
U.S. jobs between 2011 and 2015 if Keystone XL proceeds.
Something like 2,400 American companies from 49 states already
are involved in the development of Canada’s oil sands." Friends
of Science director Ken Gregory adds, “It’s ‘oil’ sands not
‘tar’ to be scientific.” Recent Scientific American oil sands
articles refer to the oil sands in the pejorative, unscientific
term 'tar sands'. The articles also perpetuate the catastrophic
theory of human-caused global warming. According to Friends of
Science and leading astrophysicists solar cycles are the primary
driver of climate change, not CO2. “Whatever nominal impact CO2
has on the atmosphere is counte