David Ramsay, Ontario’s Minister of Natural Resources, said if sea ice continues to melt, the province’s polar bears could not only lose habitat and food sources but also be prevented from mating with Manitoba bears.
Polar bears in southern Hudson Bay will be among the early casualties of dramatic climate change because their environment is likely to see the most drastic and sudden changes, government scientists say. Ontario has ordered a three-year study but government research scientist Marty Obbard said the bears are already starting to suffer.
Weather will also warm in southern Ontario, bringing insects like Lyme disease-carrying black-legged ticks and an influx of white-tailed deer, which can carry brainworm — fatal to some animals.
Democracy is utterly dependent upon an electorate that is accurately informed. In promoting climate change denial (and often denying their responsibility for doing so) industry has done more than endanger the environment. It has undermined democracy.
There is a vast difference between putting forth a point of view, honestly held, and intentionally sowing the seeds of confusion. Free speech does not include the right to deceive. Deception is not a point of view. And the right to disagree does not include a right to intentionally subvert the public awareness.
This post is the second of a two part series. Read the first installment, Unreported Emissions From Natural Gas Blow Up BC's Climate Action Plan.
Methane leaks from British Columbia's natural gas industry are likely at least 7 times greater than official numbers increasing the entire provinces' carbon footprint by nearly 25%. That's like putting 3 million more vehicles on BC's roads.
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... more boogeyman stuff from the virtual world.
link went to wrong story
when I clicked the link behind "Marty Obbard said the bears were already starting to suffer" I got taken to a Winnigpeg Sun story that quoted Ramsey about potential consequences but not what Obbard apparently has to say about bears suffering now.
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