Don't be naive on climate change, Norway’s former PM cautions Canada

[polly7]

Don't be naive on climate change, Norway’s former PM cautions Canada

INGRID PERITZ

MONTREAL— From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
Published Monday, Apr. 23, 2012 7:57PM EDT

Gro Harlem Brundtland, former prime minister of Norway, was keynote speaker on Monday at the International Polar Year conference in Montreal. Dr. Brundtland has headed the World Health Organization and served as a UN climate change envoy.

In her speech, she said warming temperatures have dramatically affected the globe’s polar regions. The Arctic Ocean ice has shrunk and will likely disappear within 30 to 40 years, permafrost is thawing, and Antarctica is losing ice and witnessing above-average warming in the Southern Ocean, she said.

The scientific basis for climate change has come under attack in Canada. Alberta’s Wildrose Party believes the link between human activity and global warming is inconclusive. How do you respond?

That is anti-scientific and naive. Politicians and others that question the science, that’s not the right thing to do. We have to base ourselves on evidence.

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/dont-be-naive-on-climate-change-norways-former-pm-cautions-canada/article2411704/

[Joe Shlabotnik]

1. Sorry, but Naive is how we do things around here.

The Prime minister of Norway describes her country as one that Canada could have become but choose not to after Mulrooney came in. The scrapping of our national energy plan, the privatization of infrastructure, and foreign ownership of natural resources killed any hope of creating a sovereign social wealth fund for the future. Chretien made it worse with by going along with Nafta. The Climate change denial is here to stay for the next 3+ years, and the laissez-faire naiveté will stick with us as long as we have either Conservative or Liberal parties in power at a federal level. Hopefully over the next few years the pendulum will swing leftwards towards the responsible, equitable and sustainable, instead of short term gain and wishful thinking.

[saras]

2. Science is responsible for racism and sexism. Who needs it?

Since you've got clear agreement from the left and the right that science is bad, let's just chuck it. Corporate technology, now that's cool They make TOYS. But science? Meh.




sorry, to much pomo theory this week.