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</div><div>=</div><div>http://nationalpXXt.com/news/world/gangs-of-aggressive-killer-whales-are-shaking-down-alaska-fishing-boats-for-their-fish-report/wcm/4da9c8fa-1884-428d-84bd-03f972e34a0f</div><div> </div><div>Gangs of aggressive killer whales are shaking down Alaska fishing boats for their fish: report</div><div>The orcas will wait all day for a fisher to accumulate a catch of halibut, and then deftly rob them blind. They will relentlessly stalk individual fishing boats, sometimes forcing them back into port.</div><div>
</div><div>Most chilling of all, this is new: After decades of relatively peaceful coexistence with cod and halibut fishers off the coast of Alaska, the region’s orcas appear to be turning on them in greater numbers.</div><div>
</div><div>“We’ve been chased out of the Bering Sea,” said Paul Clampitt, Washington State-based co-owner of the F/V Augustine.</div><div>
</div><div>Like many boats, the Augustine has tried electronic noisemakers to ward off the animals, but the orcas simply got used to them.</div><div>
</div><div>“It became a dinner bell,” said Clampitt.</div><div>
</div><div>John McHenry, owner of the F/V Seymour, described orca pods near Alaska’s Aleutian Islands as being like a “motorcycle gang.” </div><div>
</div><div>“You’d see two of them show up, and that’s the end of the trip. Pretty soon all 40 of them would be around you,” he said. </div><div>
</div><div>A report this week in the Alaska Dispatch News outlined instances of aggressive orcas harassing boats relentlessly — even refusing to leave after a desperate skipper cut the engine and drifted silently for 18 hours.</div><div>
</div><div>“It’s gotten completely out of control,” Alaska fisherman Jay Hebert told the paper.</div><div>
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</div><div>=</div><div>wiki</div><div>National Post is a Canadian English-language newspaper. The paper is the flagship publication of Postmedia Network, and is published Mondays through Saturdays. It was founded in 1998 by Conrad Black. Once distributed nationally, it later began daily edition in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia, while only its weekend edition available in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. As of 2006, the Post is no longer distributed in Canada's Atlantic provinces and the territories.</div><div>
</div><div>Contents  [hide] </div><div>1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>History</div><div>1.1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Origins</div><div>1.2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sale to CanWest Global</div><div>1.3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>21st century</div><div>2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2006 Iran controversy</div><div>3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Canadian Islamic Congress</div><div>3.1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Response from the National Post</div><div>4<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Editors-in-chief</div><div>5<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Editorial positions in 2010s</div><div>6<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Columnists</div><div>7<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Operations</div><div>8<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>See also</div><div>9<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Notes</div><div>10<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>External links</div><div>History[edit]</div><div>Origins[edit]</div><div>
</div><div>Outside Toronto, the Post was built on the printing and distribution infrastructure of Black's national newspaper chain, formerly called Southam Newspapers, that included the newspapers Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette, Edmonton Journal, Calgary Herald, and Vancouver Sun. The Post became Black's national flagship title, and massive amounts of start-up spending were dedicated to the product[citation needed] in its first few years under editor Ken Whyte.Black built the National Post around the Financial Post, a financial newspaper in Toronto which he purchased from Sun Media in 1997. Financial Post was retained as the name of the new newspaper's business section.</div><div>
</div><div>Beyond his political vision, Black was attempting to compete more directly with Kenneth Thomson's media empire led by Canada's The Globe and Mail, which Black perceived as anestablishment newspaper.[citation needed]</div><div>
</div><div>When the Post launched, its editorial stance was conservative.[citation needed] It advocated a "unite-the-right" movement to create a viable alternative to the Liberal government of Jean Chrétien, and was a supporter of the Canadian Alliance.[citation needed] The Post's op-ed page has included dissenting columns by liberals such as Linda McQuaig, as well as conservatives including Mark Steyn andDiane Francis, and David Frum. Original members of the Post editorial board included conservative author Ezra Levant, entrepreneur and neoconservative-turned post-partisan author Neil Seeman, author Jonathan Kay, Conservative Member of Parliament John Williamson and the author/historian Alexander Rose.</div><div>
</div><div>The Post's magazine-style graphic and layout design has won awards.[3] The original design of the Post was created by Lucie Lacava, a design consultant based in Montreal.[4]</div><div>
</div><div>Sale to CanWest Global[edit]</div><div>The Post was unable to maintain momentum in the market without continuing to operate with annual budgetary deficits. At the same time, Conrad Black was becoming preoccupied by impending troubles with his debt-heavy media empire, Hollinger International. Black finally decided to divest his Canadian media holdings, including thePost. Black sold the Post to CanWest Global Communications Corp, controlled by Israel "Izzy" Asper, in two stages – 50% in 2000, along with the entire Southamnewspaper chain,[5] and the remaining 50% in 2001.[5] CanWest Global also owned the Global Television Network, and there was heavy cross-promotion between the company's newspaper and television properties.</div><div>
</div><div>Izzy Asper died in October 2003, leaving his media empire in the hands of his two sons, Leonard and David Asper, the latter serving as chairman of the Post. Editor-in-chief Matthew Fraser departed in 2005 after the arrival of a new publisher, Les Pyette – the paper's seventh publisher in seven years. Fraser's deputy editor, Doug Kellysucceeded him as editor. Pyette departed seven months after his arrival, replaced by Gordon Fisher.</div><div>
</div><div>21st century</div><div>...</div><div>
</div><div>The following are a list of past and present columnists in the National Post.[24]</div><div>Patrick Allossery</div><div>Bruce Arthur</div><div>Dave Bidini</div><div>Conrad Black</div><div>Christie Blatchford</div><div>David Booth</div><div>Kelvin Browne</div><div>Jonathan Chevreau</div><div>Claudia Cattaneo</div><div>Terence Corcoran</div><div>Andrew Coyne</div><div>Barry Critchley</div><div>Robert Cushman</div><div>Father Raymond J. de Souza</div><div>Graeme Fletcher</div><div>Peter Foster</div><div>Diane Francis</div><div>David Frum</div><div>Robert Fulford</div><div>Jamie Golombek</div><div>Shinan Govani</div><div>Lorne Gunter</div><div>William Hanley</div><div>Christopher Hitchens</div><div>Brian Hutchinson</div><div>John Ivison</div><div>George Jonas</div><div>Barbara Kay</div><div>Jonathan Kay</div><div>Tasha Kheiriddin</div><div>Chris Knight</div><div>Charles Krauthammer</div><div>Peter Kuitenbrouwer</div><div>Howard Levitt</div><div>Kevin Libin</div><div>Garry Marr</div><div>Kelly McParland</div><div>Rex Murphy</div><div>Steve Murray</div><div>Christopher G. Nardi</div><div>Amy Rosen</div><div>Chris Selley</div><div>Rosemary Sexton</div><div>Mireille Silcoff</div><div>Lawrence Solomon</div><div>Marni Soupcoff</div><div>Rick Spence</div><div>Bonnie Stern</div><div>Mark Steyn</div><div>Theresa Tedesco</div><div>Robyn Urback</div><div>William Watson</div><div>George Will</div><div>Brett Wilson</div><div>Operations</div><div></div><div>
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</div><div>Lawrence Solomon</div><div> Credentials</div><div>
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</div><div> Background</div><div>
</div><div>Lawrence Solomon is a columnist with The Financial Post, the National Post (Toronto) and has been a columnist for the Globe and Mail (Toronto) a contributor to the Wall Street Journal, and the editor and publisher of The Next City magazine.</div><div>
</div><div>Solomon describes himself as “one of Canada's leading environmentalists,” and an advisor to President Carter's Task Force on the Global Environment (the Global 2000 Report) in the late 1970's, and one who has “been at the forefront of movements to reform foreign aid, stop nuclear power expansion, save the world's rainforests and convert free roads to toll roads.”</div><div>
</div><div>He authored a book in 2008 titled The Deniers: The world-renowned scientists who stood up against global warming hysteria, political persecution, and fraud  based on a series of articles he wrote for the National Post.</div><div>
</div><div>Solomon is a founder and managing director of Energy Probe Research Foundation and the executive director of its Energy Probe and Urban Renaissance Institute divisions. [1]</div><div>
</div><div>Stance on Climate Change</div><div>
</div><div>“After writing 10 columns on the subject, one for each 'denier' and his theories, one fact is undeniable: The science is not settled. Not on man's role in causing the warming we've seen this century. Not on the consequences of this warming. Certainly not on the extent of warming – or cooling– to come.” [2]</div><div>
</div><div>Solomon has promoted the views of numerous climate skeptics in his “Deniers” series:</div><div>
</div><div>“The alignment of the planets, and especially that of Jupiter and Saturn, control the climate on Earth.” [3]</div><div>“The sun's increased irradiance over the last century, not C02 emissions, is responsible for the global warming we're seeing, says the celebrated scientist [Habibullo Abdussamatov], and this solar irradiance also explains the great volume of C02 emissions.” [4]</div><div>Key Quotes</div><div>
</div><div>“The short version: It’s CO2 to the rescue. The more of it in the atmosphere, the better the Amazon’s chance of survival.” [5]</div><div>
</div><div>“In other words, more violent tornadoes would, if anything, be a sign of 'global cooling', not 'global warming'.” [6]</div><div>
</div><div>“Several renowned scientists have been predicting for some time that the world could enter a period of cooling right around now, with consequences that could be dire.” [7]</div><div>
</div><div>“Coal used to be a very dirty fuel but coal has become cleaner and cleaner over the decades. Clean coal now is quite clean. Clean coal now has the same emissions profile as natural gas. Clean coal can become cleaner still. We can take even more of the pollutants out of coal and I believe we should. Clean coal, I think, is the immediate answer to Canada’s energy needs and the world’s energy needs. There are hundreds of years available of coal supplies. We shouldn’t be squandering that resource. We should be using it prudently.” [8]</div><div>
</div><div>Key Deeds</div><div>
</div><div>March 9, 2009</div><div>
</div><div>Lawrence Solomon was a speaker at the Heartland Institute's 2009 International Conference on  Climate Change. [9]</div><div>
</div><div>July, 2008</div><div>
</div><div>Solomon spoke at Frontier Center for Public Policy (FCPP) events in Winnipeg and inRegina. Solomon describes how CO2 is “the building block of life on Earth.” and that there is “something dangerous about attacking the basis of life on Earth.” [8], [10]</div><div>
</div><div>In Regina, he says that the Earth is “the greenest it's ever been” thanks to increased C02 emissions, which he describes as “nature's fertilizer.” He says “plants love it” and it “helps everything turn green.” Solomon goes on to indirectly criticize “some people who want to stop the c02 we've been putting into the atmosphere that's been helping all our plant life.”</div><div>
</div><div>Although Solomon admits that “the planet is warming,” he says that “Plants love that too.”</div><div>
</div><div>June 7, 2008</div><div>
</div><div>Solomon published a column, titled “In Praise of CO2,” that asserted that carbon dioxide is “nature's fertilizer, bathing the biota with its life-giving nutrients.” [11]</div><div>
</div><div>New Scientist criticized Solomon's assertion that reducing greenhouse gas emissions could lead to “food production dropping worldwide.” A feedback article at New Scientist revealed that Solomon's claim had misrepresented a 2004 study that concluded “the change in biomass” over two decades “is largely due to sunnier days in the Amazon and nothing to do with any 'life-giving nutrients' in CO2 or anything else.” [12]</div><div>
</div><div>December, 2008</div><div>
</div><div>An executive from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for 21st Century Energy sponsored a debate about global warming between Lawrence Solomon and Dr. Jay Gulledge of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. [13]</div><div>
</div><div>See Professor Gulledge's “Post Debate Follow up” (PDF). [14]</div><div>
</div><div>April 1, 2008</div><div>
</div><div>Solomon published The Deniers: The world-renowned scientists who stood up against global warming hysteria, political persecution, and fraud which was based on a series of articles he wrote for the National Post.</div><div>
</div><div>DeSmogBlog noted that “The problem, then and still, is that nobody in Solomon's overheated text actually denies that humans are causing climate change.”</div><div>
</div><div> Affiliations </div><div>
</div><div>The National Post — Columnist.</div><div>The Frontier Center for Public Policy (FCPP) — Speaker at FCPP-sponsored events.</div><div>Energy Probe Research Foundation* — Managing Director and co-founder.</div><div>Energy Probe Institute — Executive Director</div><div>Urban Renaissance Institute — Executive Director and regular contributor.</div><div>Consumer Policy Institute — Regularly features Solomon's articles.</div><div>
</div><div>* The Energy Probe Research Foundation is made up of several divisions including Energy Probe, Probe International, Environment Probe, Consumer Policy Institute, Environmental Bureau of Investigation, Urban Renaissance Institute, and the Margaret Laurence Fund.</div><div>
</div><div> Publications</div><div>
</div><div>According to a search of Google Scholar, Lawrence Solomon does not appear to have published any articles in peer-reviewed journals on any subject.</div><div>
</div><div>Sample Publications:</div><div>
</div><div>“The Deniers.” National Post article series.</div><div>Many of Solomon's economic policy articles from the National Post have been republished by the Consumer Policy Institute.</div><div>Climate Realists republishes many of Solomon's National Post articles that question man-made global warming.</div><div>Books:</div><div>
</div><div>The Deniers: The world-renowned scientists who stood up against global warming hysteria, political persecution, and fraud. (Richard Vigilante Books, 2008). </div><div>The Conserver Solution (Doubleday, 1978).</div><div>Energy shock: After the oil runs out (Doubleday, 1980).</div><div>Breaking up Ontario Hydro's Monopoly (Energy Probe, 1982).</div><div>Power at What Cost (Doubleday, 1984).</div><div>In the Name of Progress (with Patricia Adams) (Earthscan, 1992).</div><div> Resources</div><div>
</div><div>“admin,” Energy Probe. Archived July 26, 2011.</div><div>
</div><div>Lawrence Solomon. “End the Chill,” National Post. April 17, 2007.</div><div>
</div><div>Lawrence Solomon. “Climate change by Jupiter,” National Post, November 10, 2007.</div><div>
</div><div>Lawrence Solomon. “Look to Mars for the truth on global warming,” The National Post. January 26, 2007.</div><div>
</div><div>“Lawrence Solomon: Are High CO2 Levels Once Again Saving the Amazon Rainforest?”The National Post. May 18, 2011.</div><div>
</div><div>“Lawrence Solomon: Tornados could be an omen of global cooling,” The National Post. May 1, 2011.</div><div>
</div><div>Lawrence Solomon. “The Deniers: Our spotless sun,” National Post. May 31, 2008.</div><div>
</div><div>“Conversations from the Frontier,” Frontier Center for Public Policy, July 4, 2008.</div><div>
</div><div>“Speakers,” The 2009 International Conference on Climate Change, February 17, 2009. Archived February 18, 2009.</div><div>
</div><div>“Lawrence Solomon on Climate Change & IPCC,” YouTube Video. Uploaded by SaskCTF, June 28, 2008.</div><div>
</div><div>Lawrence Solomon. “In praise of CO2,” Financial Post, June 7, 2008. Archived June 11, 2008.</div><div>
</div><div>“Feedback,” New Scientist, Issue 2663 (July 2, 2008). Archived December 16, 2009.</div><div>
</div><div>“The Deniers,” National Chamber Foundation. Accessed February, 2012.</div><div>
</div><div>Jay Gulledge. “Resources for Understanding Issues Raised in The Deniers by Lawrence Solomon” (PDF), Retrieved February 17, 2012 from the National Chamber Foundation web server.</div><div>
</div><div>William M. Connolley. “Who is Lawrence Solomon, and what is Energy Probe?”, Stoat, June 9, 2008.</div><div>
</div><div>“Lawrence Solomon,” SourceWatch Profile.</div><div>
</div><div>“Lawrence Solomon,” Wikipedia Entry.</div><div>
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</div><div>Postmedia Gets Away With Running Unmarked Oil Advertorials</div><div>
</div><div>[pix]</div><div>Paid advertisements for the oil industry have run unlabelled as editorial content on the websites of the Vancouver Sun and Regina Leader-Post — yet Canada’s ad regulator has decided not to rule against Postmedia, the company that owns the papers.</div><div>
</div><div>DeSmog Canada filed a complaint with Advertising Standards Canadaon March 4, regarding a story published on the Vancouver Sun’s website on Dec. 4, 2013, with the headline “Born to the Challenge: Janet Holder’s B.C. roots make her the perfect lead on Northern Gateway.”</div><div>
</div><div>The article told the tale of how Holder came to be Enbridge’s VP of Western Access, responsible for pushing the Northern Gateway oil tanker and pipeline project. Holder recited the economic claim that Canada is losing $50-million a day due to limited export markets</div><div>
</div><div>Economist Robyn Allan read the article and took issue with that economic claim. When she submitted an opinion piece in response, she was informed it couldn’t be run because the article she was responding to was actually a paid advertisement.</div><div>
</div><div>“It was clear that the page was set up to look like arms length reporting — even more so on the web than in the printed version of the paper,” Allan told DeSmog Canada. “I had prepared my opinion piece from the web ‘article’ and when I saw the printed version, I became confused—was it reporting or paid-for propaganda? The Sun editorial staff confirmed the page was paid content.”</div><div>
</div><div>DeSmog Canada’s complaint with the ad standards agency cited Clause 2 “Disguised Advertising Techniques,” which states: “No advertisement shall be presented in a format or style that conceals its commercial intent.”</div><div>
</div><div>After two months, Advertising Standards Canada sent a written reply to DeSmog Canada indicating that it had decided not to issue a ruling against Postmedia.</div><div>
</div><div>Read more: Postmedia Gets Away With Running Unmarked Oil Advertorials</div><div>
</div><div></div><div>Revelle</div><div>
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</div><div>If there is an opportunity anywhere in the “Cosmos” to deny the science of climate change – the evidence notwithstanding – The National Post’s Lawrence Solomon seems intent upon finding it.</div><div>
</div><div>In a 19-part series on climate change “Deniers,” Solomon has canvassed the science world for people whose work challenges the consensus that human-produced CO2 is changing the climate in a potential disastrous way. Fair enough; fringe voices are often interesting. But on several occasions, Solomon has let his enthusiasm get the better of him, identifying as deniers people who are on record as agreeing with the scientific consensus (here, here and especially here).</div><div>
</div><div>Now, Solomon has disinterred one of the most infamous attacks not only on climate science but on the reputation of a renowned climate scientist, Dr. Roger Revelle.</div><div>
</div><div>Solomon identifies Revelle accurately as “the grandfather of the greenhouse effect,” whose early research and eloquent writing brought the issue to public attention in the late 1950s. Al Gore, once a student of Revelle, credits the professor with inspiring Gore's personal campaign to make climate change better known and understood.</div><div>
</div><div>Solomon is also correct is pointing out that Revelle was cautious by nature, arguing against ill-considered action. Solomon quotes a letter to Congress in 1988, in which Revelle says, “My own personal belief is that we should wait another 10 or 20 years to really be convinced that the greenhouse is going to be important for human beings, in both positive and negative ways.”</div><div>
</div><div>Solomon then skips over the 19 years of compelling research that has occurred since, choosing instead to concentrate on a paper, the content of which has been misrepresented as Revelle’s work ever since 1991.</div><div>
</div><div>The paper in question was entitled What to do about greenhouse warming: Look before you leap, and it appeared in the Cosmos Club Journal. Vaguely skeptical in its content, the paper listed Revelle as a second author. The lead author, Fred Singer, and the third author, Chauncey Starr, Solomon refers to as “two illustrious colleagues.”</div><div>
</div><div>It’s true that Starr and Singer had showed well early in their careers, but by 1991, the lustre was coming off in a disappointing way. Both had aligned themselves with industry (Starr with coal, Singer with tobacco) and both were already part of a well-financed campaign to deny climate change.</div><div>
</div><div>It is not clear by what means Singer convinced Revelle to allow his name to be listed as a second author, but it has been demonstrated conclusively that Singer wrote it (with editorial assistance from deniers like Pat Michaels, Hugh Ellsaesser and Robert Balling). Indeed, Singer had published the major points of the paper the year before in the journal Environmental Science and Technology. Revelle’s input, elicited months from death from a worsening heart condition, is not reflected in the final product.</div><div>
</div><div>When the paper was published, Revelle was embarrassed by the content and optimistic that the small readership of the Cosmos journal would save him further attention. But after Revelle’s death, Singer started quoting the paper widely as Revelle’s work. A former student of Revelle’s, Dr. Justin Lancaster, then challenged the paper’s contents and made disparaging statements of Singer and his tactics.</div><div>
</div><div>Singer sued and, facing a court battle he could ill afford, Lancaster backed down, promising not to release the details of a settlement for 10 years. Then Singer spent that decade (and the years since) telling everyone that Revelle was ultimately a climate change skeptic, and using Lancaster’s acquiescence as additional proof.</div><div>
</div><div>Well, the 10 years have passed. Now, Lancaster’s detailed chronology and evidence are all available on his website, demonstrating Singer’s role. And that means there is no excuse for Larry Solomon to be touting Revelle’s mythical opposition to climate science as fact. The controversy is well-known. Indeed, others get to it pretty quickly.</div><div>
</div><div>If this was Solomon’s first “mistake,” it would be fair to assume that his misreading of this story is a result of inadvertence or inexperience in the field. But there is a pattern here that suggests that he is not learning any lessons as he pursues his agenda.</div><div>
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</div><div>Richard Lindzen is looking to up the ante. In an interview with the Canadian National Post, our Dick said</div><div>  </div><div>
</div><div>Q Some suggest that Roger Revelle, Gore's scientific mentor, would not have agreed with the movie?</div><div>
</div><div>A Well, he's dead.</div><div>
</div><div>Q Yes. So that makes it harder for him to speak out.</div><div>
</div><div>A It's a horrible story. Before he died, Roger Revelle co-authored a popular paper saying, 'We know too little to take any action based on global warming. If we take any action it should be an action that we can justify completely without global warming.' And Gore's staffers tried to have his name posthumously removed from that paper claiming he had been senile. And one of the other authors took it to court and won. It's funny how little coverage that got.</div><div>
</div><div>This is one of those strange little stories that you find Richard Lindzen crawling about at the bottom of the toilet in. The popular paper is an article in the magazine of the Cosmos Club (a club for movers and shakers in DC) written by Fred Singer and Chauncey Starr that had Roger Revelle's name on it. How Revelle's name got there beyond the fact that Fred Singer put it there is a matter of interest that is explained by Justin Lancaster, Revelle's student and last assistant.</div><div>
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