High Park Group
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High Park Group is a public affairs and policy consulting firm with an office in Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

. The firm took a leading role in the establishment of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project
Natural Resources Stewardship Project
The Natural Resources Stewardship Project is a Canadian non-profit organization that presents itself as undertaking "a proactive grassroots campaign to counter the Kyoto Protocol and other greenhouse gas reduction schemes while promoting sensible climate change policy." The group was founded in...

, an organization promoting global warming skepticism

Global Warming

In 2006 Tom Harris, then Ottawa Director of High Park Group (he moved to head the Natural Resources Stewardship Project http://www.nrsp.com in September 2006), published an article in which he claimed that "the hypothesis that human release of CO2 is a major contributor to global warming
Global warming
Global warming refers to the rising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans and its projected continuation. In the last 100 years, Earth's average surface temperature increased by about with about two thirds of the increase occurring over just the last three decades...

is just that - an unproven hypothesis, against which evidence is increasingly mounting."

External links

  • High Park Website
  • http://blogsw.solidwastemag.com/2006/06/the_gods_are_laughing.html
  • http://gnn.tv/articles/2380/A_Climate_of_Convenient_Truthiness
  • http://www.sierraclub.ca/national/postings/climate-skeptic-response.html
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