Host of CBC’s award winning radio show Quirks & Quarks Bob McDonald weights in on the PEARL closing, stating that the closing “has once again lowered this country’s environmental reputation on the world scene.”
Please read this on the Purple Crow Lidar Blog, as I thought it a better location for it. The blog piece is entitled:
Why Canadians should care about the closure of the PEARL Observatory
http://blog.purplecrowlidar.ca/why-canadians-should-care-about-the-closure-o
It’s not a feel-good story.
Need some science to get you through your commute? Download this Planet Earth podcast about the summer’s BORTAS campaign which flew out of Halifax. In this podcast Sara Moller talks about the global effects of forest fires.
On a local note, the Purple Crow Lidar has measured smoke particles in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (e.g. about 15 km altitude) and been able to show this smoke was associated with forest fire activity a few days earlier in Saskatchewan. This smoke can affect the production of ozone in the stratosphere.