Budget cuts end Canadian climate research lab
DOI: 10.1063/PT.4.0952
The Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail reports that the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) on Ellesmere Island, which is only 1000-km from the North Pole, is to close after the federal government refused to refinance a key climate-change research foundation.
According to Shawn McCarthy,
For many in the research community, the budget decision merely confirmed the view that Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his government remain skeptical of climate-change science and hostile to those who provide evidence that aggressive action must be taken to avert catastrophic global warming.
It’s quite clear we have a government that says they believe this is an issue but really don’t care about it,” said Andrew Weaver, a climatologist from the University of Victoria.
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