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 NSW Oz

 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 NZ


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

 Paul Lamar SoCal


Attached is a little piece I wrote for a climate-change friend a while back.  It actually worked!

Scott Gettings  Florida

Excellent article Scott. Thanks! I'll use that every time the subject comes up in the future.
I like the part where they can't predict the weather next month :-)


Paul Lamar



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