Considerably Less Hot

Environment Minister Rona Ambrose has stopped an Environment Canada scientist from speaking publicly about his own novel.

Mark Tushingham has written a science fiction novel called Hotter than Hell.

It is set in the not-too-distant future when global warming has made many parts of the world too hot to live in and has prompted a war between Canada and the U.S. over water resources.

Tushingham was scheduled to speak in Ottawa about his book and the science underpinning it. But an order from Ambrose's office stopped him.

Oh goody, they really are grabbing each and every page from the George W. Bush playbook. 1) War on the press? Check. 2) Silence internal critics? Check. All that's left, I suppose, is to walk away from our committment to addressing climate change.

Oh, wait, that was #3.