So the the current "snaggers" (Fossils of the day) in Ottawa don't want us to be informed on the future of Sockeye in the Fraser etc. No wonder they will include them in land claims. Mackerel flossing, church going bozos.
Scientists puzzled at Tories not releasing climate report
Mike De Souza
CanWest News Service
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
OTTAWA -- A new federal report warns of an international scramble for oil and minerals under melting Arctic ice, the collapse of the B.C. sockeye salmon fishery and water scarcity in the Great Lakes, but the Harper government is keeping the study on the shelf, CanWest News Service has learned.
Authors of the Natural Resources Canada report, called From Impacts to Adaptation: Canada in a changing climate 2007, say many of the findings are consistent with recent international reports. They are baffled that the government has delayed its release, which was expected last month.
Jim Bruce, a founding member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, said one of the chapters he wrote concluded that changes in Canada's North could generate more conflict over the oil and minerals under the ice, as well as additional environmental damage.
"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," Bruce said in an interview from his Ottawa home. "It will be documented better than it has ever been done before and some of the projections are pretty scary."
Bruce also said lower water levels in the Great Lakes region could hamper the shipping industry and hydroelectric power.
Gordon McBean, of the University of Western Ontario in London, who contributed to the federal report also warned that "As the climate warms, there will be a change in certain fish species at both the east and west coasts. Cold water will move northward and will eventually result in the sockeye not returning to B.C. coastal waters."
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