{"id":1670,"date":"2020-03-05T04:37:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T17:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2020-03-05T04:37:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T17:37:50","slug":"our-climate-warming-up-says-expert-23-july-1949-the-world-as-a-whole-is-now-moving-from-a-time-of-severe-glaciation-to-a-period-of-milder-conditions-polar-ice-is-melting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=1670","title":{"rendered":"Our climate warming up, says expert. 23 July 1949. “The world as a whole is now moving from a time of severe glaciation to a period of milder conditions. Polar ice is melting.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our climate warming up, says expert (1949, July 23). The Mail (Adelaide, SA : 1912 – 1954)<\/i>, p. 40. Retrieved March 4, 2020, from https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/56059775?searchTerm=climate%20change%20in%20australia&searchLimits=#<\/a><\/p>\n

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Indications were Australia’s climate was slowly becoming warmer, not colder, Sir Douglas Mawson, noted Antarctic explorer, said in Adelaide today.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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HE was commenting on a London report that British climatologists claimed Britain was steadily changing into a temperate country, but were uncertain whether Australia was growing colder as Britain warmed up.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The British climatologists said the unreliability of early Australian records made it impossible to prove the belief Australia would become a cold, wet country with snow sports all the year round.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Sir Douglas Mawson said: “All broader factors bearing on the subject suggest Australia will slowly become warmer and the arid regions even more arid. The world as a whole is now moving from a time of severe glaciation to a period of milder conditions.<\/div>\n
Polar ice is melting.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u00a0“Such changes are exceedingly slow and hardly registerable in a single lifetime.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“Some climatologists, how- ever, believe within 5,000 or 10,000 years this slow movement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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toward warmer conditions will have resulted in a permanent and very marked change of<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Australia’s climate.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Sir Douglas Mawson said the earth’s climate appeared to follow long-term cycles, but the<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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variation range was not very great. There were, however, certain sensitive regions of the<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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earth where temporary variations in atmospheric circulation and other meteorological<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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factors might be critical.<\/div>\n
Big change possible<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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These would result in a very obvious and marked change towards increased or reduced aridity and, in other cases, towards refrigeration or amelioration of the climate.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Sir Douglas Mawson said so much of Australia was on a borderland between useful farming areas and land useless because of low rainfall that what might be a very minor fluctuation in climate could produce far-reaching and disastrous results.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Even though large areas might suffer from flood or drought, meteorologists found the average figures for Australia fluctuated very little.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Sir Douglas Mawson said,\u00a0 “My observations in the far South have impressed me with the important role played by Antarctica in determining the climate of southern Australia.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“The important meteorological work being done by the Australian Antarctic expedition will help to show to what extent the great ice masses of the South affect climate.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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