australia – Page 25 – Real Climate Records

Oct 01

EARTH IS GETTING COLDER BUT NO FEAR OF ICE AGE. SAYS WEATHER : EXPERT. 07 Nov 1938. ‘Because the world, is growing colder, he declared this week, the next ice age has been postponed.

“EARTH IS GETTING COLDER.” Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 – 1954) 7 November 1938: 12. Web. 1 Oct 2021 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/42165760?searchTerm=no%20ice%20age&searchLimits=# […]

Sep 24

IS THE EARTH GETTING WARMER? 25 jun 1950. Must start building dykes around Australia. It won’t be long now before, coastal cities such as Brisbane, Melbourne, and Adelaide are 150 feet under the water.

IS THE EARTH GETTING WARMER? (1950, June 25). Sunday Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1926 – 1954), p. 9. Retrieved September […]

Sep 06

WARM WINTER DAY. 17 July 1949. Maximum temperature was 75 degrees (23.8 Celsius) between 1 pm and 2 pm. All beaches were crowded and many people went in swimming.

1949 ‘WARM WINTER DAY’, The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 – 1954), 17 July, p. 44. , viewed 06 Sep […]

Sep 06

A WARM WINTER. 30 July 1921. The present winter is the warmest ever experienced in Adelaide.

A WARM-WINTER (1921, July 30). The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 – 1931), p. 13. Retrieved September 6, 2021, from […]

Aug 28

WHOLE NATION SWELTERS. 29 Jan 1932. Heat Waves Stubborn Things No sufferer from recent and present heat conditions need think he has the discomfort entirely to himself, for the State Meteorologist, Mr. Mares,told “The Land” on Thursday that the whole of Australia was in the same boat.

WHOLE NATION SWELTERS (1932, January 29). The Land (Sydney, NSW : 1911 – 1954), p. 4. Retrieved August 28, 2021, […]

Aug 27

HEAT WAVES AT BOURKE. 6 Feb 1906. 120 deg F = 48.8 Degrees Celsius. Comparatively few deaths have been recorded this summer as the direct result of the abnormal heat — sad though those few have been — goes to prove that present conditions have not been so severe as those of the former period.

HEAT WAVES AT BOURKE. (1906, February 6). The Riverine Grazier (Hay, NSW : 1873 – 1954), p. 4. Retrieved August […]

Aug 25

THE CLIMATE OF AUSTRALIA. 13 Oct 1868. It is, of course, impossible to predict that any particular year will be wet or dry, but we may reasonably conclude that there is every probability of a greater number of dry seasons than floods during the next fifteen or twenty years, and those whose interests are likely to be affected either way, will, in my opinion, be acting prudently, by taking precautions rather against droughts than floods.

THE CLIMATE OF AUSTRALIA. (1868, October 13). Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 – 1875), p. 3. Retrieved August 25, 2021, […]

Aug 09

Get ready for ‘apocalyptic doomsday-laden headlines’ from the IPCC report

Sky News host Rowan Dean says when the upcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report is published the “climate hysteria” […]

Jul 12

GREAT HEAT IN THE PAST. On the Lower Macquarie Biver, on January 11, 1878, it was 117 (47.2 Celsius) in the shade, and on January 18, a week later, the thermometer registered 119 (48.3 Celsius) in the shade.”

GREAT HEAT IN THE PAST. (1896, January 15). Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 – 1931), p. 4. Retrieved July […]

Jun 21

Heat Waves Compared. 21 Feb 1914. 116deg.F = 46.6667 Celsius. The BOM 2020 heat record was beaten 8 times in 1858 and 6 times in 1908.

HEAT WAVES COMPARED. (1914, February 21). Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 – 1954), p. 38. Retrieved June 21, 2021, from […]