Green Party Leader Elizabeth May said last week that Canadian cuts to science budgets are disproportionately affecting climate change scientists, compromising the government's ability to assess risks to critical infrastructure, communities, and industry. May warned of risks from flood damage, an issue, she said, Canada is already facing from overflowing sewers. Ian Rutherford, director of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, estimated that Canada has cut science research in half and is also moving away from funding research networks. "How you expect the operational weather service to function without science, I have no idea," he said. The new policy will apply from June 1 until May 31, 2013. For the full story, see http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/06/22/pol-climate-change-jobs.html and http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Cuts+science+budgets+have+wider+economic+impact/4988549/story.html.