Alerts A night view of the Syncrude oil sands extraction facility near the town of Fort McMurray, Alberta. Photo: Mark Ralston/AFP (Getty Images) Consulting is a lucrative business if you can get it. Doubly so if you can traffic in conspiracy theories with no public accountability. Advertisement Case-in-point: a homeschooling teacher was paid a cool $27,840 to author a climate denial report for an Alberta government-backed commission.Featuring a mix of wild-eyed conspiracies about science and a cabal of journalists, world leaders, and activists, it makes the climate denial flyers put out in the waning days of the Trump administration look rigorous by comparison.