Canada's Green Party Parliament member criticizes climate science cuts

Canada has its first Green Party member of Parliament, Elizabeth May, and she's come out blasting at Canada's oil-driven climate science cuts:


Cuts to science budgets have wider economic impact: May

"Cutting out our ability to model, predict, adapt and cope with a changed climate is penny wise and pound-foolish," she said. "It's going to cost us much more long term to cut these particular scientists and to cut the capacity that Canada needs to expand to anticipate climate impacts on the Canadian economy, on our environment, on our society as a whole."

Right!

Also from the article:

Ian Rutherford, a former government scientist who is now executive director of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, estimated that the government has cut overall funding for scientific research in half, while adopting an approach that is turning away from research funding for networks, such as the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Science, that bring together a variety of scientists from different institutions with different areas of expertise.

"It's a terrible situation," said Rutherford, noting that cuts also affect scientists from other departments such as Fisheries and Oceans. "The collaboration between university researchers and government researchers is going to be crippled. I can't impute motives to the government but it looks to me that they see something bad about the department of environment doing research of any kind and collaborating with university researchers in particular."

I smell Conservatives in power doing this. Just as bad as the know-nothing-about-climate-change, do-less-about it American GOP pranksters.