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Climate History is Under Attack in Canada 

1/6/2014

 
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In 2012 the Canadian government infamously announced changes to Library and Archives Canada (LAC) that made it much harder for researchers to access their country’s documentary heritage.  The LAC’s mandate was transformed: rather than acquiring and maintaining a “comprehensive” collection, it now aimed merely to gather a “representative” assembly of Canadian documents. Funding was slashed, employees were laid off, new acquisitions were paused, documents were sold to private bidders, and resources were decentralized across Canada.

In the last month, interviews with scientists by The Tyee have revealed how the conservative regime’s attitude towards the environment meant that environmental archives suffered the most. Government scientists, who have asked to remain anonymous, report that the chaotic closure of world-class environmental libraries resulted in the destruction of priceless documents relevant to environmental and climate history. The same scientists allege that the government falsely assured that all documents were preserved through digitalization.

 "The cuts were carried out in great haste apparently in order to meet some unknown agenda,” one scientist told The Tyee. “No records have been provided with regard to what material has been dumped or the value of this public property. No formal attempt was made to transfer material to libraries of existing academic institutions."  

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Painting of the HMS Challenger by William Frederick Mitchell, 1881.
The rich resources for environmental research at the St. Andrews Biological Station in New Brunswick are gone, as is the Freshwater Institute Library in Winnipeg, and the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre in Newfoundland. At a time when historical climatology has increasingly turned to ship logbooks, the 50-volume logbook of the HMS Challenger has been destroyed. In 1876 the Challenger completed the first global marine research expedition, and its logbooks contain priceless data about the contemporary biosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere. A copy of its logbooks exists outside of Canada, but it is less accessible for Canadian researchers.

The attack on environmental and, in particular, climate history by Canada’s Harper government demonstrates yet again that scientific or historical research into the environment is inherently political. Sadly, Canadian researchers cannot take even their archives for granted. We must do our best to digitalize what we can, ourselves, before it is lost forever.

Note: in coming years, digitalized sources relevant to climate history will appear on this website, where permission is granted. 

~Dagomar Degroot

Links: 

1. Save Library and Archives Canada. 
2. Canadian libricide: Tories torch and dump centuries of priceless, irreplaceable environmental archives.
3. Fisheries and Oceans Library closings called loss to science. 
alex
1/20/2014 11:27:45 am

Reading your comment…that the logbook to the HMS Challenger has been destroyed… I can't help but think that you made the same mistake I have made.

I too, have read Captain Trevor Greene's article….In it, he says that irreplaceable documents, LIKE, the HMS Challenger logbook, now sit in a landfill.

--I believe he was simply referring to the innate value of this document in order to highlight the irreplaceable nature of other, lesser-known documents that were destroyed.

Do you have any other source to confirm that the H.M.S. Logbook was destroyed?

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1/26/2014 09:15:05 am

Hi Alex,

Thanks for your comment!

While the unfortunate auction of the Challenger logbooks was public knowledge in the UK (http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/16919/lot/8), the fate of the Challenger logbooks in Canada is less certain. We must rely on the reports of scientists who have evaded the government's muzzle. Unfortunately, that means that it may take years to figure out exactly what sources have been destroyed, and what has been preserved.

You are right that Greene's comments are somewhat ambiguous. Personally, I have not been able to find digitalized versions of the complete Challenger logs through Library and Archives Canada, which is why I worded this story as I did.

However, I will be on the lookout for the logs. If my colleagues and I find additional information, I will publish a note at the end of this article, and you will be cited.

Thanks again,
Dagomar

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