Blacklock’s Reporter,
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and operated newsroom
in Ottawa” , focuses on
reporting Canadian
government documents.
About 100 years of measured
temperatures, from 1850 to 1949,
were scrapped by Environment
Canada when creating its computer
models to estimate future
climate change.
Ignoring a century of observed
weather data from 1850 to 1949,
was necessary, a spokesman for
Environment Canada told
Blacklock’s Reporter.
Because EC researchers
concluded there weren’t
enough weather stations
to create a reliable data set
for that 100-year period.
“The historical data
(that we use today)
is not observed (real)
historical data,”
the spokesman said.
“It is modeled historical data
… 24 models from historical
simulations spanning
1950 to 2005 were used.”
Computer simulations
are used for the
federal government’s
ClimateData.ca
website, for the
pre-1949 period !
The omitted data
had included some
old "warmest ever"
temperature records:
-- Vancouver had
a higher record
temperature
in 1910 (30.6C),
than in 2017 (29.5C).
-- Toronto had
a warmer summer
in 1852 (32.2C),
than in 2017 (31.7C).
-- The highest temperature
in Moncton in 2017,
was four degrees cooler
than in 1906.
-- Brandon, Man.,
had 49 days where the
average daily temperature
was above 20C in 1936,
compared to only
16 days in 2017,
with a high temperature
of 43.3C that year,
compared to 34.3C in 2017.
Politicians give the public
inaccurate information
about climate change
all the time.