Don't be naive on climate change, Norway’s former PM cautions Canada [View all]

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Don't be naive on climate change, Norway’s former PM cautions Canada

INGRID PERITZ

MONTREAL— From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
Published Monday, Apr. 23, 2012 7:57PM EDT

Gro Harlem Brundtland, former prime minister of Norway, was keynote speaker on Monday at the International Polar Year conference in Montreal. Dr. Brundtland has headed the World Health Organization and served as a UN climate change envoy.

In her speech, she said warming temperatures have dramatically affected the globe’s polar regions. The Arctic Ocean ice has shrunk and will likely disappear within 30 to 40 years, permafrost is thawing, and Antarctica is losing ice and witnessing above-average warming in the Southern Ocean, she said.

The scientific basis for climate change has come under attack in Canada. Alberta’s Wildrose Party believes the link between human activity and global warming is inconclusive. How do you respond?

That is anti-scientific and naive. Politicians and others that question the science, that’s not the right thing to do. We have to base ourselves on evidence.

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/dont-be-naive-on-climate-change-norways-former-pm-cautions-canada/article2411704/