Nothing Canada Can Do Solo On Climate To Protect Polar Bears, Environment Minister Says

WINNIPEG — There's nothing Canada can do on its own to fight climate change that will improve the plight of the polar bear, Environment Minister Jim Prentice told reporters Friday.

"Climate change is important, but climate change is a planetary issue, and there are no single measures that Canada acting alone can undertake, relative to climate change, that are going to change the circumstances on the ice for polar bears in the immediate future," Prentice said at a gathering in Winnipeg of scientists and Inuit groups looking for ways to protect the dwindling population of Canadian polar bears.

Instead, Canadian measures to improve the animal's status will focus on conservation, Prentice said.

"Climate change at this point, to a certain extent, is irreversible, he said. "That means that, on the ground today, there are conservation decisions that need to be made relative to the polar bear, and we focused on those matters today."

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http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Technology/Climate%20change%20measures%20help%20polar%20bears%20Prentice/1185886/story.html

Holy smokes, a Conservative minister said that? What's next? "Oh, and that Peak Oil thing? Yeah, that's real as well..."

Although the bar has been set pretty low, Prentice may be better than our last Environment Obfuscator Minister John Baird. Or maybe the reality doo-doo finally got too deep for even Conservatives to deny and still retain any credibility.