CBC: Environment Minister Jim Prentice said the government’s decision to not send one of Canada’s leading scientists to the international climate talks wrapping up in Poland Friday was financial, not political. Senior Environment Canada scientist Don MacIver was scheduled to deliver a speech Dec. 5 as part of his role as the chair of the organizing committee for the World Meteorological Organization’s climate conference. MacIver’s travel costs were to be covered by the WMO, but …