Enviro Canada

formerly just lumpedthis in w. EPA

http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/11/1/about-ezra-levant-s-clip-cheering-journalists-un-paris-climate-talks-those-aren-t-reporters-and-s-not-media-room

Canadian conservative commentator and climate science denialist Ezra Levant has won his battle with the United Nations to have staff from his media outlet accredited to cover climate talks starting next week in Morocco.

Three staffers from Levant’s online outlet, The Rebel, were initially denied media accreditation for the COP22 talks in Marrakesh, after the UN described Rebel as “advocacy media”. TheFinancial Post is reporting that the UN has granted Rebel two spots, but Rebel is pushing back for a third.

Since hearing from the UN in early October, Levant has been campaigning furiously to force the UN to change its mind. He gained support from three journalism groups, gathered 10,000 names on a petition and won the backing of Canada's environment minister, Catherine McKenna.

Levant even travelled to New York to hand the petition to Canada’s permanent mission to the United Nations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_McKenna

Catherine Mary McKenna PC MP (born August 5, 1971) is a Canadian Liberal politician, who was elected to represent the riding of Ottawa Centre in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 federal election. She was appointed as Minister of Environment and Climate Change in the Cabinet, headed by Justin Trudeau, on November 4, 2015.^[2]

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Career

Legal career

McKenna is trained as a human rights and social justice lawyer.^[3] McKenna is the co-founder of Canadian Lawyers Abroad, a University of Ottawa-based charity that helps Canadian law students and law firms do pro bono legal work in developing countries.^[1][3][4]

McKenna was a senior negotiator with the United Nations peacekeeping mission in East Timor which culminated in the Timor Sea Treaty providing for the joint exploitation of petroleum resources in a part of the Timor Sea.^[5] She is also a lecturer at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs.^[3]

McKenna has practised law at leading firms in Indonesia, focusing on international trade, competition, investment and constitutional issues. In 2002, she joined Stikeman Elliott LLP, working in the areas of competition, trade, and constitutional law.^[6] During this time she was senior counsel on the Right Honourable Antonio Lamer’s review of Canada’s military justice system.^[7]

Teaching

McKenna has taught at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and was a board member at the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies.^[7]

Federal politics

In the}: 2015 federal election, McKenna defeated longtime New Democratic Party (NDP) Member of Parliament (MP) Paul Dewar in the riding of Ottawa Centre.^[8] McKenna said that she knocked on 100,000 doors during her 522 days as a candidate.^[9] McKenna was elected with 43% of the votes compared to Dewar's 38%.^[10] McKenna had campaigned on issues such as reforming the National Capital Commission, funding for a new main branch of the Ottawa Public Library, and opposing the proposed Memorial to the Victims of Communism.^[8]

McKenna with Bruce Heyman and Gina McCarthy in 2016.

McKenna is one of 50 women elected to the Liberal caucus.^[9]

Minister of Environment and Climate Change

McKenna was appointed Minister of Environment and Climate Change in Justin Trudeau's first cabinet on November 4, 2015.^[11] One of her first appearances as Minister of Environment and Climate Change was at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.^[12]

Personal life

https://fsrn.org/2016/09/earth-hits-co2-concentration-point-of-no-return-canada-plants-a-carbon-bomb/

LNG BC ok'd env cda

Madhav Khandekar

Credentials

Ph.D., Meteorology, Florida State University.
M.Sc., Meteorology, Florida State University.
M.Sc., Statistics, Pune University (India).
B.Sc., Mathematics.
B.Sc., Physics.

Source: [1]

Background

Madhav Khandekar is a retired Environment Canada scientist. The Heartland Institute describes him as “an environmental consultant on extreme weather events and a scientist with the Natural Resources Stewardship Project.”[2]

According toleaked documents from Heartland, Khandekar has been receiving **$1,000 per month from the Heartland Institute**, an organization at the forefront of climate change skepticism.

Stance on Climate Change

“There is no correlation between c02 and temperature at all. In fact if we look at the temperature change over the last 100 years and link it with the c02, there is little correlation…” [3]

Key Quotes

“At this point I don't think it’s correct to say that the planet is continuing to warm because it has essentially stayed about the same. There is no additional warming of the entire earth-atmosphere-ocean system in the last few years.”

“I don't see that CO2 is inducing any climate change. CO2 may have induced a small amount of warming that we saw in the 80's and 90's but more importantly CO2 is an inert gas, it is not a pollutant.” [4]

Key Deeds

March 30, 2009

Khandekar's signature is appended to a full-page ad funded by the :{CATO:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px"):}: institute thatappeared in numerous newspapers including the Washington Post, the New York Timesand the Chicago Tribune in 2009.

The advertisement criticizes President Obama's declaration that “few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change,” stating that “with all due respect Mr. President, that is not true.” It goes on to assert that “there has been no net global warming for over a decade,” and that the dangers of global warming are “grossly overstated.” [10]

December 13th, 2007

Khandekar signed an open letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations alleging that that the “UN climate conference is taking the World in entirely the wrong direction.”

The letter was signed by 100 “Prominent Scientists.” [5]

May 3, 2004

Khandekar spoke at a Cooler Heads Coalition “Congressional and Media Briefing” titled “The Impacts of Global Warming: Why the Alarmist View is Wrong.”

Other speakers included global warming skeptics Paul Reiter, Nils-Axel Morner, andPatrick Michaels. [6]

Affiliations

**Natural Resources Stewardship Project (:{NRSP:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px"):}:)** — Past “Allied Expert.” The :{NRSP:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px"):}:is now defunct. [7]
International Climate and Enviornmental Change Assessment Project (:{ICECAP:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px"):}:)— “Expert.” [1]
**International Climate Science Coalition (:{ICSC:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px"):}:)**— Member, ICSC “Science Advisory Board.” [8]
**Friends of Science (FoS)**— Member, “Scientific Advisory Board.” [9]
**The Heartland Institute**— “Expert.” [2]

Publications

According to a search of 22,000 academic journals, Khandekar has published 19 pieces of research in peer-reviewed journals, mainly in the area of El Nino and climate.

Many of his papers on climate change were published in the journal *Energy and Environment*, a journal which has been criticized for its peer review process and which is edited by global warming skeptic Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen.