A high profile group of academics, including Dr. John Robinson, UBC's top sustainability expert and a lead author on three reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), co-wrote a column in the Vancouver Sun today accusing the BC NDP of "intellectual dishonesty." The group goes on to compare the BC NDP and their leader Carole James to "'Climate “skeptics' — people who doubt, despite the mounds of evidence, that climate change is a problem worth addressing..."

Robinson and company write:

"Climate 'skeptics' — people who doubt, despite the mounds of evidence, that climate change is a problem worth addressing — are less prevalent today, but they been replaced by purveyors of a new myth: people who tell voters that we can solve the climate change problem without the need for any change in how we live our lives.

In B.C., Carole James and the NDP are these new mythmakers. The BC NDP promise to “axe the tax,” should they win the provincial election, while accomplishing all the same goals with no cost to BC taxpayers, is nothing short of intellectual dishonesty." (my emphasis)

Read the whole op-ed here: Debunking myths about the B.C. carbon tax