OUR CLIMATE IS CHANGING. 24 May 1951. If you think the weather’s not what it used to be 60 years ago, you now have the support of scientists.
OUR CLIMATE IS CHANGING (1951, May 24). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1957), p. 3. Retrieved March 28, 2024, from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/23069454?searchTerm=climate%20change%20in%20australia&searchLimits=#
If you think the weather’s not what it used to be 60 years ago, you now have the support
of scientists.
A world-wide survey by meteorologists has shown, according to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, that there is a current change in world climate.
A C.S.I.R.O. officer said yesterday that there was evidence that during the last 60 years there had been cooler summers and a marked increase in summer rainfall in South Australia and Victoria.
In conjunction with these surveys, he said, experiments were being made by Australian scien-
tists into methods of producing local weather changes by fog dispersal, frost prevention, and
artificial rain stimulation.
At Griffith (N.S.W.) this year scientists would use a large 10 h.p. fan to suck warm air down
to fruit tree level for frost prevention.
Is winter-getting colder? . . .
Well, he hasn’t quite worked that one out yet.