Wayne & Belle

Wayne & Belle
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Thursday 1 November 2012

Science versus Stupidity

Commissioner Bruce Cohen’s scathing report castigating the Conservatives for the collapse of the Fraser river sockeye salmon run and the subsequent omnibus C-38 which can only make environmental conditions much worse. Mr Cohen has a big disadvantage, despite 3 years 26 million dollars 3 million documents 100 days of evidence listening to almost 900 public submissions, his 1000 page report is after all only science and we all know how much credence Conservatives have in science, for them it is simply, what does the Bible say about any issue and if it is not covered then it can not be a problem because GOD would have put it in the Bible if there were a problem. 

These people live in a bubble that sees nothing they do not want to see or want you to see, and Canada will be ever the worst for that dangerous simplistic naive view of the world. Everything they do has the same naive simplistic ignorance stamped on it and Canada will pay dearly for this regressive government for decades possibly forever. 

Even if you take just a simple monetary measuring stick such as shutting down an important scientific study like the Experimental Lakes Area, a collection of 58 lakes near Kenora which is considered a scientific “jewel” in northern Ontario that has put Canada at the forefront of global freshwater lake research. 
The project costs 2 million dollars a year and employes 17 scientists and is considered a very important study by the rest of the more enlightened governments of the world, but in their wisdom the Conservatives have decided that it is a waste of money so at a cost of 50 million dollars they are shutting it down, I guess that makes sense  to our economist Prime Minister at least using 
Conservative math. 

The reason no doubt has a more sinister reason such as the fresh water scientists not being able to tell Canadians how much damage Canadian pipe lines, super tankers and oil extraction is damaging the Canadian environment.


If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.  ~George Bernard Shaw


The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.  ~Jean-Paul Kauffmann

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