Sep 01

A NEW ICE ‘AGE’ IN EUROPE 13 Feb 1940. A great ice claw stretching from the Arctic to the Black Sea and westward to Holland is again clutching Europe. Germany is suffering acutely. A serious influenza epidemic has broken out in Berlin. The ground is too hard for burials, and the mortuaries are crammed with bodies awaiting the thaw.

A NEW ICE “AGE” IN EUROPE (1940, February 13). The Newcastle Sun (NSW : 1918 – 1954), p. 8. Retrieved […]

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Aug 29

No Ice Age For 5,000 Years Scientist Says 28 Jul 1976

1976 ‘No ice age for 5,000 years, scientist says’, The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 – 1995), 28 July, p. […]

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Aug 24

1910 Receding Glaciers. 1963 Glaciers Grow. The Jacobshaven glacier in Greenland has retreated four miles since 1850, and the East glacier in Spitzbergen is more than a mile away from its original terminal moraine.

RECEDING GLACIERS. (1910, September 28). The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal (NSW : 1888 – 1954), p. 4. Retrieved August […]

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Aug 17

Heat Wave On Fringe Of Antarctica. 12 Jan 1956. According to the staff aerologist, the weather lately had been abnormally warm because a wedge of warm air from New Zealand had crashed through the usually impenetrable wall of westerlies guarding the Antarctic

Heat Wave On Fringe Of Antarctica (1956, January 12). The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 – 1995), p. 2. Retrieved […]

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Aug 15

FIRST MEN AT THE SOUTH POLE. 01 Mar. 1956 Areas free of snow and ice. Volcanoes.

1956 ‘FIRST MEN AT THE SOUTH POLE’, The Beverley Times (WA : 1905 – 1977), 1 March, p. 8. (Supplement […]

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Aug 03

WORLD GETTING WARMER. 22 May 1950. Sydney was becoming a hotter place to live in. People who had lived on the North Shore line for the past 25 years have plenty of material evidence of the change in temperature. Temperatures everywhere are changing. Rain and snow falls are altering.

WORLD GETTING WARMER (1950, May 22). Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld. : 1907 – 1954), p. 2. Retrieved August 3, 2022, […]

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May 30

WORLD HEATING UP GREAT ICECAPS DISSOLVING AT POLES. 26 Aug 1933. The ice has left the British Isles, most of Scandinavia, and most of Iceland, “But it lingers round Greenland and still covers the Poles. In time, it may all melt, and there will be no ice even at the Poles.

WORLD HEATING Up (1933, August 26). The Evening News (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1924 – 1941), p. 8. Retrieved May 30, […]

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May 25

A Warmer World. 21 Jul 1932. SOME great world change is taking place on the Antarctic Continent. Its glaciers are shrinking. Commander L.A. Bernacchi, who visited the South Polar land 30 years ago, says that the Great Ice Barrier which fronts the continent with a wall of ice for 250 miles has receded at least 30 miles since it was first seen and surveyed.

A Warmer World. (1932, July 21). The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 – 1939), p. 42. Retrieved May 25, 2022, […]

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May 17

WORLD GROWING WARMER. 30 Sept 1922. Even during the comparatively short space of time that the Antarctic has been visited by man the ice has retired some 40 miles.

WORLD GROWING WARMER. (1922, September 30). Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate (NSW : 1876 – 1954), p. 14. Retrieved […]

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May 16

NORTH POLE MELTING. MANY GLACIERS VANISHED. 07 April 1923. Is the North Pole going to melt entirely? Are the Arctic regions warming up, with the prospect of a great climatic change in that part of the world?

NORTH POLE MELTING. (1923, April 7). Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 – 1954), p. 9. Retrieved May 16, 2022, […]

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