At one of Canada’s top comprehensive universities, a well-known
climate change denier was recently discovered “educating” a
class of undergraduate students about global warming. Tom Harris
spent much of his career acting as a PR consultant for fossil
fuel companies. Today he directs the International Climate
Science Coalition (ICSC), an advocacy group closely tied to the
Heartland Institute. In fact, Harris is listed as a Global
Warming Expert on Heartland’s website, and spoke at their 2008
conference. However, with a background in mechanical
engineering, Tom Harris is hardly qualified to comment on
climate science. The ICSC’s position on climate change is,
unsurprisingly, similar to Heartland’s. Their list of Core
Principles includes the following gems: - Science is rapidly
evolving away from the view that humanity’s emissions of carbon
dioxide and other ‘greenhouse gases’ are a cause of dangerous
climate change. - Climate models used by the IPCC fail to
reproduce known past climates without manipulation and