Douglas Leahey
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Douglas Leahey is a meteorologist and air-quality consultant based in Calgary, Alberta. He is currently employed as principal scientist in the Air Quality Division at Jacques Whitford Environment Limited [1]. Despite having [never published] an article on climate change, Leahey is also the current president of Friends of Science, a Canadian non-profit organization that presents itself as undertaking "a proactive grassroots campaign to counter the Kyoto Protocol and other greenhouse gas reduction schemes while promoting sensible climate change policy."
Leahey's name was included in a list of 61 signatories to an anti-climate-change petition sent in April, 2006 to Canada's Prime Minister.
Leahey has been criticized for Astroturfing on the behalf of the oil and gas industries.
