Canada makes international headlines with a scientist-bashing stance, from “Canadian oil minister” Joe Oliver when he said “Well, this is exaggerated rhetoric. It’s frankly nonsense. I don’t know why [Dr. James Hansen] said it but he should be ashamed of having said it.”
Suzanne Goldenberg writes, ”Canada‘s natural resources minister, Joe Oliver… lash[ed] out at one of America’s pre-eminent scientists, climatologist James Hansen, during a visit to Washington DC.”
We love scientist when they make cars go faster, when they cure our children’s disease, deliver fresh food and clean water, but why do some selectively question the science of climate change? Its the scientist’s duty to share what they observe and measure.