The Trudeau government
did a public relations attack
on carbon dioxide,
before imposing
Canada's new
Carbon Tax.
But Canada is a nation that has
gained from climate change,
primarily from warmer nights.
A recent report, commissioned by
Environment and Climate Change
Canada (the federal Department
of the Environment), got a lot of
media coverage.
Canadians were told that Canada
warmed “twice as fast” as the
entire planet since 1948.
Canadian winters also warmed
twice as fast as the summers,
which is good news.
And the Prairies warmed
almost three times faster
than the Maritimes.
"The warming we have had
over the last 100 years
is so small that if we
didn’t have meteorologists
and climatologists
to measure it, we wouldn’t
have noticed it at all".
Climatologist Lennart Bengtsson
If you want to read about
changes to the Canadian climate,
then read the report.
But if you are Canadian, and
need to read the report to know
what changes you lived through,
that means they were small changes,
and didn't matter to you at the time !
Assuming the past 325 years
of intermittent global warming
continues, there is no reason
to predict 100% bad news
from future global warming,
especially for Canada.
In the past 50 years,
no one demonstrated
an ability to predict
the future climate.
But now we are told
that we MUST believe
the predictions of doom,
or face being character
attacked as being
"climate deniers"!
Responding to the Canadian
government’s
“Canada’s Changing
Climate Report”
CCCR2019,
was "Friends of Science":
(1)
CCCR2019 uses 1948
as a reference point,
even though 1948
was a cool period.
(2)
Their "reference period",
from 1986 to 2005,
includes an unusually huge
Pacific Ocean "El Nino"
heat release in 1998,
and ends with another
El Nino year ( El Nino's
are unrelated to CO2 ).
(3)
The graph below shows
a flat Canadian temperature
trend since 2002:
(4)
Canada has a seasonal
temperature range
of 50°Celsius in the
surface temperature
record.
Using the recorded daily
Canada temperature
minimums (TMIN) and
maximums (TMAX),
from 1900 to 2013,
results in the
red and blue
graph below.
The black line in the middle
shows the GLOBAL temperature
anomaly, indicating a tiny rise.
At the bottom of the chart,
the blue lines show
a rising trend of TMINs
( aka "warmer nights" ).
At the top of the chart
the red lines show,
there is NO rising trend
of TMAXs
( aka "warmer days" ):
If carbon dioxide (CO2)
was causing the warming,
then warming should have
been visible as gradually
warmer days AND
gradually warmer nights.
(5)
Of course future temperatures
are unknown, but that does not
stop climate alarmists from
guessing, and they ALWAYS
"see" bad news.
They rely on climate models
(computer games) for guessing
the future global average temperature.
And those predictions are even used
for setting government policies.
So you'd think the computer game
predictions would closely match
observations.
But they don't !
Based on 102 computer
model runs for the IPCC,
the models project
significant warming,
that never happens !
Reality is that UAH satellite data,
and thousands of weather balloon
records, show that global warming
has flatlined since the late 1990s,
despite a significant rise
in carbon dioxide emissions
from human industry:
(6)
The Canadian Government says:
Because of climate change,
Canadians must expect
more frequent, and worse,
spring flooding.
Dr. Madhav Khandekar,
former WMO regional expert,
past Environment Canada
research scientist of 40 years,
and author of more than
150 peer-reviewed papers,
says that seasonal flooding
has been a common occurrence
throughout Canada's history,
and little seems to be done
by residents or municipalities
to prepare for the floods.
CCCR2019 blames the southern
Alberta/City of Calgary flood of 2013
as ‘probably’ caused by
Anthropogenic (man made)
Global Warming.
This claim ignores the evidence
that Calgary had eight of its
worst floods prior to 1933 !
This history was available at the
Calgary Public Library website
and the Glenbow Museum, but
I suppose climate scaremongering
was considered to be more important
than climate history?
(7)
The Canadian Government says:
Coastal flooding is expected
to increase in many areas
of Canada due to local
sea level rise.
Friends of Science say:
Canadian coastlines
are challenged by subsidence
(sinking) and erosion, unrelated to
human-caused global warming.
Much of Canada is stable.
But due to melting of the ice age
glaciers, that covered the country
20,000 years ago, much of Canada’s
land is in the process of isostatic rebound
– a slow rise as the earth rebound
from the tremendous weight of the
kilometers of ice that once
covered the nation.
The Natural Resources Canada map
below shows uplift or subsidence:
