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Canada: Predicting future climate change may lie in the past
2013-03-22 02:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: The key to predicting future climate change may lie buried in some of Canada's oldest weather records, including the 1745 observations of a Montreal doctor and logbooks from William Parry's 1819 voyage to the Arctic. Now, a group of Canadian volunteers is racing to digitize those handwritten books before they fall apart. They're part of a worldwide volunteer movement to hunt down old weather data, so that they can be used to test the newest climate-change models. In September, the Intergovernmental...
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