Raising skeptics

CALGARY -Six months ago, residents of the cattle country south of Calgary invited a climate scientist to town to speak to 140 students from J. T. Foster High School in Nanton and bused in from nearby Claresholm. The guest was Tim Ball, a prominent Canadian skeptic of the theory of man-made climate change and perennial bugaboo of the green lobby.

The school had been showing An Inconvenient Truth, the contentious Al Gore movie about global warming, in class, much to the consternation of a number of locals.
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While An Inconvenient Truth is available through almost every school board resource library, there are no board-approved resources focusing on the scientific doubts about man-made climate change theory, points out Norman Kalmanovitch, director of Friends of Science, an Alberta-based, non-profit organization dedicated to countering the International Panel on Climate Change's version of the global warming narrative.

The group has tried convincing Alberta school boards to authorize teachers' resources that promote alternate climate-change theories, such as sun spot activity, but so far, Mr. Kalmanovitch says, he's had no luck. The group offered recommended edits to update the science in the province's existing teaching resource, "Creating a Climate of Change," which, as the name implies, takes as a given the existence of man-made climate change. It presents as fact, for example, statistics from the IPCC that have since been called into question -- an infamous "hockey-stick graph"...