Duck sets the Record Straight on Canadian Arctic Science

Disturbing words from Canada’s Enviroment Minister Peter Kent. This past week he wrote a letter to the Victoria Times-Colonist mis-representing several important facts about the Harper Government’s brutal, targeted cuts on Arctic science. Prof. T. Duck (Dalhousie University) replies to Kent’s misrepresentation of the facts in a letter to iPolitics.ca, concluding:

… point-by-point Kent’s claims about PEARL are factually incorrect. Many other claims in the Times-Colonist letter have been so profoundly discredited that it is no small wonder he had the gall to utter them. This past week, in response to criticism he had “misled Canadians”, Kent told an opposition MP that she should talk to “better informed scientists”. What we really need is a better-informed Minister.

I encourage you to read the rest of Prof. Duck’s letter on iPolitics.ca. 

Echo Base in the Sunshine

Wave clouds over the #EchoBase Observatory. In the daytime, when the Crows usually sleep :-) 

Congratulations to Crow Emily on winning the William H. Wehlau award!

 

Crow Emily was recently recognized as the top student in the Astronomy graduate program: (via the UWO Physics & Astronomy Blog). She is shown being presented the award by Astronomy Prof. Amelia Wehlau at the Department picnic. We Crows are all so proud of Emily!

Moon Landing

Take that you crazy NASA moon landing deniers (via xkcd: Moon Landing). On the other hand it’s hard to pull off an operation like this given the current budget envelope.

FML: Google buys Sparrow Mail

So guess who just took the last few days to switch over to Sparrow. I’m on a crappy role here, first all my blogs were on Posterous and now Sparrow has flown the coop. I hope they live up to their promise of continued support unlike Posterous who left its users out in the cold with no support. That being said I have a support issue going back and forth with the Sparrow people and they have been terrific, answering me as recently as last night when you would have thought they would be partying!

added 30 July 13: put tumblr on that list as well!