Introduction
This is a special edition of FTDOS. When I signed off at the end of Part 5, 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 something to the effect of “they say we can expect this more” wink wink, nudge nudge – because of Climate change. So I decided to push this out now.
Observation
The fires that have fired up the climate change fear factor this year are mostly in the boreal forests of N. Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Fortunately for us there is an awesome temperature record at Prince Albert, Saskatchewan located in the same area that is being affected by these fires. Prince Albert is one of the original settlements as the adventurers moved courageously into the wilds of N.Canada and has a very complete data record. If there is climate change causing these fires surely we will see it at this location.
Here is the data from Price Albert:
WOW!! There sure is a major climate shift at around 1900. This is the same trend that we highlighted in Part 5. We’re starting to see a pattern here.
Pre 1900 N. America had much colder low temperature, especially during winter.
1900 – 1950 Much warmer temperatures, 5 degrees warmer low temperatures and a more modest increase of 1 degree warmer high temperatures.
1950-1980 A cooling trend of about 1.5 degrees for low temperatures and 0.5-1 degrees for high temperatures.
1980-Present Warming back to about the same level as the 1900-1950 period.
This recurring trend also coincides with the historical trends in forest fire reported by the US Fire Service when comparing area burned by year. The same periods of 1900-1950 saw much larger areas burned than in the 1950-1980 period followed by the current trend of lager burn areas.
Conclusion
We are being duped!!!!!!