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...