#FOI4U: FOI Requests Reveals That Federal budget cuts compromise weather data
Federal budget cuts compromise weather data, report warns
Loss affects monitoring of global warming
By Mike De Souza,
Postmedia News
August 22, 2010
The NDP's promise to axe the carbon tax has not gone over well with environmentalists concerned about climate change.Photograph by: Paul J. Richards, Getty Images filesOTTAWA — Sustained cuts to Environment Canada weather-service programs have compromised the government’s ability to assess climate change and left it with a “profoundly disturbing” quality of information in its data network, says an internal government report.
The stinging assessment, obtained through a freedom-of-information request, suggests Canada’s climate network infrastructure is getting progressively worse and no longer meets international guidelines.
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