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[Nykom | Canada] Over 200 are professionals -- scientists, chemists, meteorologists, engineers””leading to questions of how Environment Canada can fulfil its mandate with such a loss in personnel. The Green Party finds it unacceptable that the government is downplaying these cuts by saying that some staff may be kept on as indeterminate staff. 

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[Collide-a-scape » Collide-a-scape >> Keith Kloor's Blog >> Where Nature and Culture Intersect] Collide-a-scape » Blog Archive » Collide-a-scape >> A Wicked Problem: “The House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming held a hearing on May 20 to examine the intersection between climate science and the political process…. The Republican members made opening statements that attacked some more, then walked out on the hearing without even listening to the testimony, or asking a single question.  See Details for our report from the hearing.”

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[CJR] Temperate Coverage of Extreme Weather : CJR: Unlike some of the others, which explore the indeterminate climate connection but leave it that, they both explain (quoting from the latter) that “The immediate cause of the [the Russian heat wave and Pakistani flood, which appear to be linked] is the behavior of the jet stream, a band of high-level wind that travels east around the world and influences much of the weather below it.”

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