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Lately the media has made statements that make people, especially older people, believe that any fire season is extreme and caused by climate change. It’s BS. The fire season in Canada this year started with early season fires in Saskatchewan. Fortunately for folks that like to make informed opinions there is a very complete temperature… Continue reading PRINCE ALBERT HEAT

I’ve been meaning to do this for a while. It seems you can’t watch or read any reporting these days without hearing about extreme heat. Then you hear on the streets everyone talking about how hot it is (my apologies to the folks in places like Calgary where since the end of Stampede the daytime… Continue reading Brockville Heat

TORONTO ONTARIO The Toronto thermometer record starts in 1840 in Yorkville and  is home to the only thermometer record starting before the late 1800’s. This gives us an opportunity to see a little further into the past and confirm that the cooler temperatures that lasted until 1900 were persistent over a climatic time frame. The… Continue reading Toronto: A Urban Heat Island

Introduction This is a special edition of FTDOS. When I signed off at the end of the introductory post, I promised the next edition would look at the UHI effects using S. Ontario data. Over the last month I have met a lot of people that, when discussing the forest fire situation in Canada say… Continue reading A Quick Side Trip to Prince Albert to See if Climate Change is Driving Forest Fires

Introduction In this installment of From The Desk Of Shifty I will evaluate the merits of alarmist references to “Climate Change” in Canada using the temperature data archived in the Environment Canada database. Around the world incredible amounts of money are spent by government departments, NGOs, universities, etc. to support the narrative of Catastrophic Anthropogenic… Continue reading Introduction to the Canadian Temperature Database Archive