Douglas Leahey

Douglas Leahey is a meteorologist and air-quality consultant based in Calgary, Alberta.
Leahey received his doctorate from New York University, where he also served as a research scientist from 1968-1972. He received a Masters in Meteorology from McGill University in 1966, and a B.S. in Physics (with honors) from Dalhousie University in 1963.
Leahey is president of Friends of Science, a Canadian non-profit organization which describes itself as "a proactive grassroots campaign to counter the Kyoto Protocol and other greenhouse gas reduction schemes while promoting sensible climate change policy." His name was included in to an anti-climate-change petition sent in April, 2006 to Canada's Prime Minister.
Leahey has authored or co-authored around 80 papers and presentations on topics including wind climatology, meteorology, atmospheric turbulence, air pollution and air quality issues, and urban heat island effects.. His main scientific specialization involves air quality effects and assessments.
Controversy
A 2005 cover story in the Canada Free Press entitled "Kyoto: Propaganda or Censorship?" documented Leahey's unsuccessful attempts to receive government permission to air for a video challenging the Kyoto Protocol.
Leahey attributed the 2006 election of Stephen Harper as Canadian Prime Minister in part to a radio camapaign financed by his organization, Friends of Science, saying "our campaign is working. Our message was that voters have not been given the facts on climate change, and that candidates need to be questioned on their intentions to spend billions on global warming theories."
In 2007, Leahey was one of 100 scientists who signed a widely-circulated open letter to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, challenging the IPCC's conclusion of "dangerous anthropogenic warming". The letter read, in part:

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