When it comes to the consequences of global warming, the standard approach of the far right is to keep that under wraps. Either understate it or lie about it or just don't mention it at all. The Bush White House has been playing that despicable con on the American people since Shrub took power and Stephen Harper is showing he's got the same amount of respect for the Canadian people.
CanWest news service reports that the Harper government is hiding a potentially embarassing report on the damage facing Canada as a result of climate change. Gee, really?
A new federal report is warning of an international scramble for oil and minerals under melting Arctic ice and water scarcity in the Great Lakes, but the Harper government is keeping the study on the shelf, CanWest News Service has learned.
Jim Bruce, a founding member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said "That is going to cause a scramble for resources in the North and is going to have a significant impact on the ecosystems of the North and the people of the North."
Meantime, another climate scientist who contributed to the federal report said that fisheries, including one of B.C.'s most valuable fish species, could be threatened by global warming.
"As the climate warms, there will be a change in certain fish species at both the east and west coasts," said Gordon McBean, a professor at the University of Western Ontario in London. "Cold water will move northward and will eventually result in the Sockeye (salmon) not returning to B.C. coastal waters."
A decent prime minister would put the Canadian people and their future wellbeing ahead of Big Oil and the Tar Sands. Unfortunately we don't have one of those at the moment. We've got Stephen Harper and more's the pity.
CanWest news service reports that the Harper government is hiding a potentially embarassing report on the damage facing Canada as a result of climate change. Gee, really?
A new federal report is warning of an international scramble for oil and minerals under melting Arctic ice and water scarcity in the Great Lakes, but the Harper government is keeping the study on the shelf, CanWest News Service has learned.
Jim Bruce, a founding member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said "That is going to cause a scramble for resources in the North and is going to have a significant impact on the ecosystems of the North and the people of the North."
Meantime, another climate scientist who contributed to the federal report said that fisheries, including one of B.C.'s most valuable fish species, could be threatened by global warming.
"As the climate warms, there will be a change in certain fish species at both the east and west coasts," said Gordon McBean, a professor at the University of Western Ontario in London. "Cold water will move northward and will eventually result in the Sockeye (salmon) not returning to B.C. coastal waters."
A decent prime minister would put the Canadian people and their future wellbeing ahead of Big Oil and the Tar Sands. Unfortunately we don't have one of those at the moment. We've got Stephen Harper and more's the pity.
2 comments:
Hey, what happened to your "Right Wing Nutjob" post? I was rather looking forward to that.
Anyway, regarding these reports, neither of the scenarios posited exactly challenge the imagination. With respect to the one about the north in particular I could be wrong, but I don't think you'll see a lot of public outrage about this. We'll hear all the usual assurances from the big oil companies about how the environment will be protected and/or restored to its "pristine" condition, blah, blah, blah. Facile blandishments that many will happily accept in exchange for increased access to offshore sources of oil that could well prove considerably cheaper — and to be fair — a lot less damaging to the environment than the tar sands.
Hi Red. The "rightwing nutjob" post was pulled at the urging of my better half. She thought it would just turn into a lightning rod for the malcontents and be a lot more trouble than it was worth.
As for your take on public complacency/indifference, I can only hope you're flat wrong. I've been looking into water wars lately and I think we're entering a period in which people are going to have to take a good look around and realize how blessed we are to have Canada and the need to protect what we've got. Now, since you're not busy blogging, how about painting up a consciousness-awareness sign and hitting the sidewalks outside Munro's? I'll keep an eye out for you.
Thanks for stopping by.
Cheers
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