Last year, the already shrinking summer Arctic ice diminished even more dramatically, as did the Greenland ice sheet, making it Environment Canada’s choice for number one weather story of the year
by HENRY HENGEVELD
The world’s climate number crunchers – including Environment Canada’s David Phillips and Bob Whitewood – once again spent the early days of January in putting together annual weather statistics for 2007. The results that emerged from their analyses included a lot of the same old, same old – but also provided a few interesting anecdotes that will undoubtedly become part of our climate lore.