{"id":6201,"date":"2024-10-29T03:19:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T16:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=6201"},"modified":"2024-10-29T03:19:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T16:19:35","slug":"imaginary-changes-of-climate-10-jan-1871-and-many-seem-now-to-regard-three-dry-hot-years-in-succession-as-betokening-some-general-change-of-climate-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=6201","title":{"rendered":"IMAGINARY CHANGES OF CLIMATE. 10 Jan 1871. And many seem now to regard three dry hot years in succession as betokening some general change of climate"},"content":{"rendered":"

IMAGINARY CHANGES OF CLIMATE. (1871, January 10).\u00a0The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 \u2013 1933)<\/i>, p. 4. Retrieved October 29, 2024, from https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/1298497?searchTerm=imaginary%20changes%20of%20climate&searchLimits=#<\/a><\/p>\n

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THREE consecutive years\u00a0of<\/span>\u00a0drought, while they have stimulated the inventive resources\u00a0of\u00a0<\/span>practical agriculturists, have had the natural effect\u00a0of<\/span>\u00a0calling forth a plentiful crop\u00a0of<\/span>\u00a0speculation from weather prophets and projectors, and half-instructed meteorologists, and all the philosophic tribe\u00a0of<\/span>\u00a0Laputa in general, to whom the periodical press now affords such fatal facilities.<\/div>\n
We have often noticed that in the tabular statements\u00a0of<\/span>\u00a0those compilers\u00a0of<\/span>\u00a0weather records who write to the Times, useful and welcome as their communications are, every season is sure to be \u201cextraordinary,\u201d almost every month one\u00a0of<\/span>\u00a0the driest or wettest, or windiest, coldest or hottest, ever known.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Much observation, which ought to correct a tendency to exaggerate, seems in some minds to have rather a tendency to increase it.<\/div>\n
And many seem now to regard three dry hot years in succession as betokening some general change\u00a0of<\/span>\u00a0climate,<\/span>\u00a0as if it was not perfectly certain, in the wide range\u00a0of<\/span>\u00a0the table\u00a0of<\/span>\u00a0what we call chances, that with our existing conditions\u00a0of<\/span>\u00a0climate<\/span>\u00a0such a combination must every now and then recur.<\/div>\n
We know an ingenious theorist who would fain persuade us that a cycle\u00a0of<\/span>\u00a0six hundred unfavorable years has just reached its termination, and that English agriculturists, who left off making wine about A.D. 1250 because their grapes ceased to ripen, will soon be making it again, and continue to do so for an equivalent number\u00a0of<\/span>\u00a0centuries.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Others, speculating quite as conjecturally and even more absurdly, seem to attribute the impending change\u00a0of<\/span>\u00a0climate of<\/span>\u00a0which they assume the reality to the operation\u00a0of\u00a0<\/span>men.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IMAGINARY CHANGES OF CLIMATE. (1871, January 10).\u00a0The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 \u2013 1933), p. 4. Retrieved October 29, 2024, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[568,574,571,96,44,575,570,569,122,572,573],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6201"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6202,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6201\/revisions\/6202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}