Thomas J Duck

Thomas J Duck is an Associate professor, physics and atmospheric science, Dalhousie University; co-founder, Canadian Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Change.

Sep 152012
 
Environment Minister Peter Kent wants only good news.

Scientists seem to be telling Harper what he wants to hear.

by Thomas J Duck,

Something fishy is going on over at Environment Canada, where a recent report on greenhouse-gas emissions is uncharacteristically flawed – in favour of the Harper government’s position. On August 8, Environment Minister Peter Kent announced that Canada is half way toward meeting its greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions targets for 2020, and congratulated his government for having “set the stage for the progress we’ve achieved this year.”

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