climatology jobs

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Almost everything in stores now come with a "Made in China" label. I was shocked to find out that "Made in China" was not another Canadian province. For many years Canadians were told prices are high due to the low dollar, high taxes, and whatever reasons fit for the time. Hundreds of thousands of jobs were lost to offshore manufacturers, so I tell Canadians, 'Support Canadian manufacturing', because retailers sure don't. On the face of it, [Fred Singer]'s credentials sound impressive: senior research fellow at the Independent Institute. Well, Singer has no background or expertise in climatology, and this "institute" is a right-wing propaganda mill that gets its money from Exxon-Mobil and the tobacco company Philip Morris, among others.

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 21, 2009

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It's puzzling why Prof. [Danny Blair] seems so anxious to personally discredit Prof. [Tim Ball], whom he chides for having been a "professor of geography, not climatology, at the University of Winnipeg." Blair is himself a professor of geography, and yet is publicly taking a position on climatology. If Prof. Blair had been there at the time, he would have known that Prof. Ball taught climatology as well as geography at the U of W. From my experience, he did a good job of it. Prof. Ball taught his students to know how climate information is gathered, to know what it means, and to be wary of fads based on short-term information. At the time, for example, many climatologists were warning that human activity was causing global cooling. Some were even advocating spreading coal dust on arctic...

...Winnipeg. Tax cuts non-existent. Re: Good jobs vanishing in Canada, June 27, by Frances Russell. ...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 20, 2009