The public is up in arms after Canadian officials decided to prohibit
government weather forecasters from publicly discussing climate change.
As of Wednesday, nearly 14,000 people had signed a petition
penned by Canadian resident Janelle Martel that slams "another move on
the government’s part to keep the public uninformed about climate
change."
In late May, government agency Environment Canada confirmed to investigative journalist Mike De Souza that weather forecasters employed by government weather forecasters are banned from discussing global warming.
Environment Canada spokesperson Mark Johnson told De Souza that
Environment Canada prohibits meteorologists from discussing climate
change, citing the need for them to speak to their "area of expertise."
But the petition, created on the website of company Care2, charges,
“These meteorologists undergo years of training to learn about severe
weather changes. This, along with the fact that the government has
barred other scientists from discussing climate change without political
clearance, makes it seem as though the government [wants] to limit and
control the information Canadians have access to regarding climate
change.”
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