Why BOM Hides Pre-1910 Temperatures

7 Responses to Why BOM Hides Pre-1910 Temperatures

1. sabretoothed says:

   January 26, 2015 at 11:38 pm

   http://m.theage.com.au/environment/climate-change/warmer-drier-climate-locked-in-for-melbourne-says-csirobureau-of-meteorology-report-20150126-12yfrf.html

   After moving the Melbourne temperature site lol

   Do they just play with computer and not look outside? I guess the Melbourne station has been moved after 100+ years because it became cooler the new location might fit their ideas next to 4 concrete stadiums

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2. sabretoothed says:

   January 26, 2015 at 11:40 pm

   http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/warmer-mostly-drier-future-predicted-with-climate-change-20150126-12yeyp.html LOOOOOOOOOOOOL

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3. sabretoothed says:

   January 26, 2015 at 11:42 pm

   http://www.climatechangeinaustralia.gov.au/en/about/ yep 1910 just after Federation drought

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4. omanuel says:

   January 27, 2015 at 5:08 am

   After using Occam’s razor today to shave off seventy years of growth from Big Brother’s chin, the UN was correctly identified as the father of:

   1. The Standard Climate Model
   2. The Standard Nuclear Model
   3. “Big Bang Cosmology,” and
   4. The Standard Solar Model

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5. BruceC says:

   January 27, 2015 at 10:11 am

   The 1851 (Black Thursday) fires are still regarded as the largest bushfires in a populous region in Australian recorded history, with approximately 5 million hectares, or a quarter of Victoria, being burnt.

   “The temperature became torrid, and on the morning of the 6th of February 1851, the air which blew down from the north resembled the breath of a furnace. A fierce wind arose, gathering strength and velocity from hour to hour, until about noon it blew with the violence of a tornado. By some inexplicable means it wrapped the whole country in a sheet of flame — fierce, awful, and irresistible.”

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Thursday_%281851%29

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6. BruceC says:

   January 27, 2015 at 10:33 am

   “But it is only when they are over that they can do anything coolly; for the heat is, during their prevalence, perfectly prostrating. These winds, known in Sydney as “Brickfielders,” are still more terri­ble, owing to the greater heat of the climate and the more sandy nature of the soil. During their continuance the thermometer will rise, not to 110 degrees, as colonial writers admit, but to 140 degrees. The foliage of the forest shrivels up before the fiery blast, and corn crops are sometimes actually reduced to cinder in the ear.”

   BLACK THURSDAY. — The great Bush Fire of Victoria; by William Howitt – February 4, 1854

   http://web.archive.org/web/20110406121653/http://www.netspeed.com.au/seforests/black_thursday.htm

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7. Ozboy says:

   January 28, 2015 at 1:53 am

   Don’t be surprised if the newspaper article is “disappeared” from the NLA online collection.

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