Once up a time (June of 1978 to be precise) if you downloaded Environment Canada’s monthly summaries, you would have found 313 stations with “Bright Sunshine” hours.
Now there is one.
H/T to reader Bruce – “If you want to find out if sunshine in Canada is correlated to temperatures, you can’t”. Well, that’s convenient.
Flashback: the Great Dying of the Thermometers
and just who was downloading data in 1978?
Only in Poland eh?
Fascinating! One would have to think that after the evolution of Homo Sapiens/Neantertals/whatever is Africa and the evolution of civilization in the Levant the evolution of modern society is based in Europe, especially Britain.
One could also think in each instance of evolution the vested interests of the founding locations inhibited any further evolutionary advance and the founding culture decayed.
I guess the next conclusion could be not all cultures in the world are on the same evolutionary level. Cheers;
Ironically it’s probably because they’re blowing the budget on studying “climate change”. Think about it. Just another reason why this whole thing is a self perpetuating myth.
If only there were some . . . natural explanation for falling and rising temperatures.
Such a hypothetical source of warming would have to be massive, however. On the order of magnitude of our own Sun.
/an ace of spades commenter
The work of Henrick Svensmark and others (“The Chilling Stars”, interesting book) suggests that the sun’s magnetic strength (as tracked through sunspot activity) changes in cycles, and has a direct effect on climate by controlling cloud formation.
Strong magnetic field = fewer cosmic rays making it to the earth = fewer clouds = warmer earth.
Weaker magnetic field (as in the Maunder and Dalton Minimum cold periods) = more cosmic rays making it to earth, which are ionizing radiation that create cloud condensation nuclei = more clouds = cooler earth.
It’s an elegant theory that is supported by a lot of data, and neatly explains why the north and south poles tend to have opposing temperature trends (more clouds make the north pole cooler, and the south pole warmer, and vice-versa).
The late 1900’s were the peak of a grand maximum in sunspot activity. The last 15 years of so the sun has gone quiet, sunspot activity has dropped off to a small fraction of what it was a few decades ago.
Hiding the sunshine data is an attempt to cut off further evidence that the sun may be the overwhelming control of our climate. There is no potential funding bonanza in trying to control the activity of the sun’s magnetic field, follow the money.
My dad said a liar needed a good headpiece…he had to remember the truth and all the subsequent lies.
All them thermometers would provide the inconvenient truth, they sought to suppress.
Anthony Watts researched and documented this….it’s a wonder he hasn’t been Brietbarted.
Environment Canada.
Another bureaucrat of little to no utility.
It is more accurate to get your weather forecast by flipping a coin or consulting the entrails of small animals.
If we fired the entire department and prosecuted some of the former top Kleptocrats, no one would notice.
Since EC became a fully functioning wing of political climate they have become lawless.
Check out what legally constitutes a “Toxic Spill”.
And those uniforms; Nothing says SS quite like the uniforms of these modern brown shirts.
Environment Canada has sabotaged weather data collecting, their 1990’s unmanned stations were not ready for reality, the rushed replacements are not much better.
A simple concept a High Arctic weather station must measure from -70C to +40C .ACCURATELY.
Can EC’s?
Then there is “Environment Canada’s Science”.
Science a decomposing corpse in the halls of our kleptocracy.
Instead they promote psuedo-science .
Politically correct, politically crafted and utterly irreproducible nonsense based on false premises.
Best case ever made for Zero Taxpayer Funding for institutional science.
Re Andycanuk
Maybe!
http://joannenova.com.au/2014/06/big-news-part-i-historic-development-new-solar-climate-model-coming/
The history of CompuServe shows this :
“The consumer information service had been developed almost clandestinely, in 1978, and marketed as MicroNET through Radio Shack”
Long before the Internet (ubiquity), I was downloading.