Climate change??

The news today stating that this weekendis the worst on record is way
out.

Not 2016, BUT1828_ at a blistering 53.9 B0C_
Back before man-made climate change was frying Australia, when
CO2was around 300ppm, the continent savoured an ideal
pre-industrial climate.... RIGHT?

This is the kind of climate we are spending $10bn per annum to
get back too... Right again?

We are told today's climate has more records and more extremes
than times gone by, but the few records we have from the early
1800's are eye-popping.

Things were not just hotter, but so wildly hot it burst
thermometers.

The earliest temperature records we have show that Australia was
a land of shocking heat waves and droughts, except for when it was
bitterly cold or raging in flood.

In other words, nothing has changed, except possibly things
might not be quite so hot now!


Silliggy (Lance Pidgeon) has been researching records from early
explorers and from newspapers.

What he's uncovered is fascinating! It's as if history is
being erased!

For all that we hear about recent record-breaking climate
extremes, records that are equally extreme, and sometimes even
more so, are ignored.

In January 1896 a savage blast "like a furnace" stretched across
Australia from east to west and lasted for weeks.

The death toll reached 437 people in the eastern states.

Newspaper reports showed that in Bourke the heat approached
120B0F (48.9B0C) on three days.

Links to documentary evidence (1
http:trove.nla.gov.aundpdelarticle33121679?zoomLevel=4)(2
http:trove.nla.gov.aundpdelarticle14033806?zoomLevel=6)(3
http:trove.nla.gov.aundpdelarticle53682260?zoomLevel=6)

The maximum at or above 102 degrees F (38.9B0C) for 24 days
straight!

Use the several links below to read the news reports at the time
for yourself ..


1.By Tuesday Jan 14, people were reported falling dead
http:trove.nla.gov.aundpdelarticle44132389?zoomLevel=5 in
the streets.

2.Unable to sleep, people in Brewarrina walked the streets
at night for hours, thermometers recorded 109F atmidnight
http:trove.nla.gov.aundpdelarticle44159099?zoomLevel=5.


3.Overnight, the temperature did not fall below 103B0F.

4.On Jan 18 in Wilcannia, five deaths were recorded in one
day, the hospitals were overcrowded
http:trove.nla.gov.aundpdelarticle14033576?zoomLevel=5
and reports said that "more deaths are hourly expected".

5.By January 24, in Bourke, many businesses had shut down
http:trove.nla.gov.aundpdelarticle75263800? (almost
everything bar the hotels).

6.Panic stricken
http:trove.nla.gov.aundpdelarticle8888573?zoomLevel=6
Australians were fleeing to the hills
http:trove.nla.gov.aundpdelarticle79288908?zoomLevel=5in
climate refugee trains.

As reported at the time, the government felt the situation was
so serious that to save lives and ease the suffering of its
citizens they added cheaper train services:

What I found most interesting about this was the skill,
dedication and length of meteorological data taken in the 1800's.
When our climate is "the most important moral challenge" why is
it there is so little interest in our longest and oldest data?

Who knew that one of the most meticulous and detailed
temperature records in the world from the 1800's comes from
Adelaide, largely thanks to Sir Charles Todd.

The West Terrace site in Adelaide was one of the best in the
world at the time, and provides accurate historic temperatures
from"Australia's first permanent weather bureau
http:www.rahs.org.auhistory-resourcesthe-first-weather-bureau
at Adelaide in 1856?.



Rainfall records even appear to go as far back as 1839.Lance
Pidgeon went delving into the National Archives and was surprised
at what he found.

The media are in overdrive, making out that "the extreme heat
is the new normal" in Australia.

The Great Australian Heatwave of January 2013 didn't push the
mercury above 50C at any weather station in Australia, yet it's
been 50C (122F) and hotter in many inland towns across Australia
over the past century.

See how many are in the late 1800's and early to mid 1900's.

You can't blame those high records on man-made global warming!

Carl Coffin

Neal Unger

Many of the world's great deserts were not there 2000+ years ago.
Climate change has been happening long before man arrived on this rock.
Indeed as we know there are some scientists now advocating that more
emphasis should
be put on exploring the natural reasons for climate change.
Andrew Campbell.


Climate cycle is a better description.
It gets warm it gets cold it rains it does not rain.
Live with it :-)

Paul Lamar

I am 61 years of age, and as a young child in grade school I remember reading stories about kids ice skating  on the Dutch canals. Stories of wooden skates, and kids dreaming of shiny metal ones. Our teacher told us "that the canals no longer froze over enough to skate anymore"! This was the early sixties.

As a young man in 70's I entered the Navy, I got to travel, and see the world. In Europe, I found out that yes, during the 50's and 60's the canals did dot freeze enough to skate. However, that was not the case during the 70's, and those same canals were now freezing, and people were skating on them.

I'm not that old. However, I believe "weather, just like sh*t happens". My 2 cents.......

'Norm Parmley


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