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Canada (and the world) is getting warmer...Sure, there's no global warming...the numbers lie SSSUUUU
"Canada Getting Warmer and Wetter
In 2005, based on preliminary estimates, Canada had the sixth warmest year in almost 60 years, about 1.3°C warmer than average. It was also the ninth consecutive year with above-normal temperatures. Six of the warmest nine years have occurred since 1998. Every Canadian region experienced temperatures warmer than normal in 2005. It was unusually warm in northern British Columbia, the Yukon and in the far North. Nationally, all seasons were warmer than normal, with the transition seasons of spring and fall showing the greatest positive temperature departures. Across Canada, spring was the third warmest (+2.1°C) and fifth wettest (+12%) since records began in 1948. Fall was delightful all across the country. Nationally, and in Ontario and Quebec, it was the second warmest fall on record.
A warmer Canada is in step with the rest of the world. Globally, 2005 was the twenty-seventh consecutive year with above-normal temperatures and within a fraction of the record temperature established in 1998.
Temperatures have been rising over the past 100 years, but this slow warming has increased markedly over the past quarter century. The ten warmest years globally have all occurred since 1990, the top three since 1998. According to the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, the global average temperature has risen about three times faster since 1976, compared to that for the past 100 years. Now into the 21st century, global temperatures are more than 0.6°C above those at the beginning of the 20th century. Although yet another warm year is not itself evidence of enhanced climate change, the unprecedented increase in global temperatures in the past quarter century has added to the strong and compelling evidence of humankind's contribution to our changing climate.
Across Canada, 2005 was the wettest year on record, some 14% wetter than normal. Every season was wet, especially summer - its wettest ever at 21% above normal. Some areas in the west and north were 40% wetter than normal in summer, with some parts of southern Alberta and Manitoba double that."
http://www.msc-smc.ec.gc.ca/media/top10/2005_e.html
In 2005, based on preliminary estimates, Canada had the sixth warmest year in almost 60 years, about 1.3°C warmer than average. It was also the ninth consecutive year with above-normal temperatures. Six of the warmest nine years have occurred since 1998. Every Canadian region experienced temperatures warmer than normal in 2005. It was unusually warm in northern British Columbia, the Yukon and in the far North. Nationally, all seasons were warmer than normal, with the transition seasons of spring and fall showing the greatest positive temperature departures. Across Canada, spring was the third warmest (+2.1°C) and fifth wettest (+12%) since records began in 1948. Fall was delightful all across the country. Nationally, and in Ontario and Quebec, it was the second warmest fall on record.
A warmer Canada is in step with the rest of the world. Globally, 2005 was the twenty-seventh consecutive year with above-normal temperatures and within a fraction of the record temperature established in 1998.
Temperatures have been rising over the past 100 years, but this slow warming has increased markedly over the past quarter century. The ten warmest years globally have all occurred since 1990, the top three since 1998. According to the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, the global average temperature has risen about three times faster since 1976, compared to that for the past 100 years. Now into the 21st century, global temperatures are more than 0.6°C above those at the beginning of the 20th century. Although yet another warm year is not itself evidence of enhanced climate change, the unprecedented increase in global temperatures in the past quarter century has added to the strong and compelling evidence of humankind's contribution to our changing climate.
Across Canada, 2005 was the wettest year on record, some 14% wetter than normal. Every season was wet, especially summer - its wettest ever at 21% above normal. Some areas in the west and north were 40% wetter than normal in summer, with some parts of southern Alberta and Manitoba double that."
http://www.msc-smc.ec.gc.ca/media/top10/2005_e.html