It is bad enough that the Alberta government misleads its public about the supposedly settled science of climate change. But in mid-March, they took the same flawed message to the United States in one of the worst public relations mistakes of all time: supporting the climate scare in America’s premier newspaper, the New York Times.
When Alberta Premier Alison Redford travels to Washington D.C. in April to lobby for the Keystone XL Pipeline, she must say nothing that would support the controversial idea that humanity’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are causing dangerous climate change. After all, the ultimate aim of climate activists is to end our use of fossil fuels. Why would a province that derives most of its income from those resources support a movement that is trying to kill the market for the same resources?