Jeffrey Simpson teaches elementary science.
Tuesday/08 December 2009
Recognizing that the science
education of the public is deficient, Jeffrey Simpson, a columnist
with The Globe & Mail, puts on his science teacher duds and
carefully explains a concept of climate science in
THIS ARTICLE from yesterday's edition. The
article's title is: "Climate Change Is Not Weather Change".
This is elementary school stuff. Mr. Simpson has recognized that one way to restore order from the chaos stirred up by the mere existence of the Copenhagen Summit and fallout from the East Anglia stolen email is to provide the most basic of ideas of climate science. Some very bright people appear to have missed this simple point, that is, climate and weather are two different things.
He begins with jab at the Harper government. If members of Harper's cabinet have such big holes in their science education we are in worse trouble than we thought. Here's the quote in question:
"At a reception a few weeks ago, a senior minister in the Harper government stated as fact that the atmosphere was cooler today than in 1998, the inference being that climate change was a hoax, or at least not what it's cracked up to be. It's scary to have a senior minister believe such stuff, but this is the Harper government, after all." — Jeffrey Simpson, Globe and Mail December 7, 2009
This is elementary school stuff. Mr. Simpson has recognized that one way to restore order from the chaos stirred up by the mere existence of the Copenhagen Summit and fallout from the East Anglia stolen email is to provide the most basic of ideas of climate science. Some very bright people appear to have missed this simple point, that is, climate and weather are two different things.
He begins with jab at the Harper government. If members of Harper's cabinet have such big holes in their science education we are in worse trouble than we thought. Here's the quote in question:
"At a reception a few weeks ago, a senior minister in the Harper government stated as fact that the atmosphere was cooler today than in 1998, the inference being that climate change was a hoax, or at least not what it's cracked up to be. It's scary to have a senior minister believe such stuff, but this is the Harper government, after all." — Jeffrey Simpson, Globe and Mail December 7, 2009
