For Immediate Release
October 12, 2008
Nobel Prize winners urge "Greens" to vote red
OTTAWA - Three senior Canadian members of the 2007 Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are publicly urging those who really care about the environment to vote Liberal.
"We face a critical moment," Dr. Andrew Weaver said in a news release.
Dr. Weaver, Dr. William Peltier and Dr. John Stone are urging potential Green Party voters to vote Liberal in order to stop the Harper government from winning.
"(Elizabeth) May and the Greens alone can help make the difference between the Harper majority that the climate scientists fear and a Liberal minority under which great progress can be made to fight climate change," said Dr. Weaver. (News Release, October 11, 2008)
Dr. Weaver told the Ottawa Citizen that a vote for the Green Party "is not a green vote.
"A green vote is for a Liberal government and Stéphane Dion. There is no other candidate you can vote for," he said. (Ottawa Citizen, October 12, 2008)
The three scientists shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore.
Clearly they recognize what 120 other leading climate change scientists and 250 of Canada's leading economists all recognize: that the principles behind the Green Shift - putting a price on emissions - is the way to go to fight climate change.
While the Green Shift cuts taxes for Canadians, Mr. Harper refuses to tell Canadians how much his plan is going to cost them - and it has been rejected by every leading environmental group and climate change expert across Canada.
Jack Layton, on the other hand, refuses to admit his NDP plan is unrealistic in its belief that a highly complex cap-and-trade system can be established within one year.
Dr. Weaver, Dr. Peltier and Dr. Stone recognize that only the Liberal Party, acting on the advice of Canada's leading economists and scientists, has an effective, workable plan for the environment.
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