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Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to climate scientist Ben Santer, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has so far not renewed “The only dedicated program funding climate and atmospheric research in Canada”.
Climate researchers press Trudeau to renew Canadian Arctic research program
By Brian Owens Jan. 22, 2018 , 11:45 AM
The Canadian government should renew funding for a soon-to-end Arctic climate and atmospheric research program, a group of more than 250 international climate scientists is arguing in an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
“There is a crisis looming for Canadian climate and atmospheric research that will be felt far beyond Canada’s borders,” the letter states. Extending funding for the 6-year-old Climate Change and Atmospheric Research (CCAR) program, which is set to end this year, would help maintain the country’s scientific and political leadership in the field, the authors say.
CCAR, launched in 2012, provides CA$7 million per year for seven research networks studying the physical processes underlying climate and atmospheric behavior. Among other activities, the networks monitor and model tiny particles known as aerosols, biogeochemical trace elements in the Arctic Ocean, and atmospheric temperatures in the high Arctic.
So far, the Trudeau government has been mostly silent on CCAR’s future, frustrating scientists concerned about the program’s fate. It has given one part of the program a temporary reprieve; In November 2017, the government announced CA$1.6 million in funding for the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory, located on the remote Ellesmere Island in Canada, to keep it running until 2019.
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Santer says international climate researchers are looking to Canada to provide leadership as climate science is sidelined in the United States. “The scientific understanding of the nature and causes of climate change are under concerted attack [in the United States], and our work is being dismissed as a hoax and conspiracy,” he says. “So we look to other countries like Canada for leadership—both political leadership, which Trudeau has said he will provide in this leadership vacuum, and scientific leadership.”
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The following is the open letter sent by Ben Santer and the other climate scientists.
Given grossly wrong climate science predictions that this winter would be warmer than normal, perhaps even Prime Minister Trudeau has had enough.
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What is there to research in a field where the science is settled?
The arctic research was a Stephen Harper, former Prime Minister, program, so it had to go.
Also, there are no votes for Justin there and the money had to be redirected to Vancouver where the votes are:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/trudeau-orders-kits-coast-guard-open-1.3318028
Eric,
Here’s a correction to your lead sentence.
“According to climate pseudo-scientist Ben Santer,….”
Why are more than 250 international “climate scientists” getting involved in politics? Rhetorical question – follow the money.
it was noted that there are zero Canadian researchers as signatories.
Possibly some prohibition in acanadian law or funding rules that prevents scientists from political lobbying for more money.
So this is likely being done on their behalf by international scientists.
Trudeau is losing interest? Wow!
They shouldn’t get the money unless they promise to do honest research and quit pushing the ‘Climate Change’ hoax. But Trudeau, being signatory of the Paris Accord, is probably withholding the money because Canada needs to borrow it from China.
The appeal to Trudeau to think of himself as a ‘scientific leader is probably not very impressive. He has better prospects. Canada leads in all sorts of things scientifically including theoretical physics, four wheel drive systems, avionics, industrial hydraulics, snow transport, subway cars and so on and on. Why would we worry about some piss-ant climate alarmists trying yet again to feather their nests by producing another tranche of goggle-eyed narratives about how the tree line will move all the way to the Arctic Ocean, where it used to be?
What does Santer think is frozen in the permafrost? Twinkies?
If there is one thing Canada can use it is a few million farmers working newly available acreage unlocked from the vast frozen wilderness blighting so much of the country.
Oranges will one day grow in Canada. I look forward to that day. When they do, it won’t be because of cleaning up the Athabaska Oil Spill.
I am all for funding great scientists to do great things. Subsidizing the climate equivalent of rum-runners is not on my short list. Rather fund the next IMAX or Canadarm. (For those who don’t know, IMAX cinematic equipment, at the time the greatest advance in film in half a century, originated in Galt Ontario, just a hop down the road from Waterloo.)
Mr Santer should show his anger by thretening to boycot Canadain goods and services. If he believes that adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels then he should stop making use of goods and services that make use of fossil fuels. After all, it is his money that keeps the fossil fuel companies in business.
This is the same Ben Santer of:
•University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit
•Climategate
•“tempted, very tempted, to beat the crap” out of former Virginia state climatologist and AGW skeptic Pat Michaels
Trudeau’s BFF and top advisor, Gerald Butts, was Pres and CEO of WWF-Canada from 2009-2012. Before that, Butts helped write Ontario’s execrable Green Energy Act which has more than doubled electricity prices and damaged the competitiveness of the manufacturing sector. Trudeau fancies himself as an international green hero, so this letter will fall on welcome ears. Trudeau loves spending our money to burnish his green bona fides before the international eco-elites.
We can expect the most alarmist articles from the names listed in that letter. Chances are they’ll peer review each others… Publishing lists always holds its risk, that is revealing a network. Thanks Ben.
Simple question, how does a (successful) Ph.D. or Masters candidate have time for politics? Not in my day. But that was back in the day when titles of departments, institutes, authorities, etc. did not have to be that long. Those that signed it may not be, but some are activists.
This bears examination, especially to see which ones are real. Innocents may well get hurt.
http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2018/01/19/new-online-database-tracks-u-s-attacks-on-environmental-public-health-and-climate-science/
Of course it won’t be renewed, like the Arctic sea ice webcam programme and many others. The paymasters got what they wanted in Paris in 2015, so they’re directing their funds less towards scientific endeavours and more towards pure politicking.