  Fri, 2006-06-09 14:52Jim Hoggan Jim Hoggan's picture     It
began, in earnest, a month ago with wide release of a letter
from 60 "experts" taking issue with the current consensus on
climate change. That petition was repudiated by a second letter,
signed by 90 of the top climate scientists in the country, but
it didn't stop those in the first group from flooding the
country's opinion pages with "climate skeptic" reports and, most
recently, from hitting the talk circuit.   Dr. Tim Ball, for
example, has been working the halls in Ottawa, making speeches,
doing radio and newspaper interviews – his activities paid for
by the counter-intuitively titled "Friends of Science." The
pricy Fleishman-Hillard PR fixer who has been making Dr. Ball's
arrangements is Morten Paulsen, a Conservative party insider.
For example, Mr. Paulsen was the co-chair for the Alberta
Progressive Conservative AGM and convention this year.   For
example, Luntz suggested putting the cost of climate change
regulation in human terms and emphas