Award-winning scientist says compromise needed on climate debate
WINNIPEG — Canadians need to turn down the heat and start listening to each other when they discuss global warming, says the winner of a major scientific award for his work on Arctic ice and climate change.
“I think we need to talk,” said John England of the University of Alberta, who was awarded the $50,000 Weston Family prize for northern research Wednesday in Winnipeg.
“We need to have some reconciliation between these opposing viewpoints. Right now, it’s too intensely dualistic.”
Nobody needs to convince England that climate change is real. After a 50-year career studying glaciers, ice sheets, sea ice and sea level changes, he can reel off a half-dozen impacts already underway without pausing for breath.