Celebrating 150 Years Of Imaginary Climate Change

Nothing ever changes with mankind’s superstitions about climate.

IMAGINARY CHANGES OF CLIMATE.

a plentiful crop speculation from weather prophets, and projectors, and half-instructed meteorologists, and all the philosophic tribe of Laputa In general, to whom the periodical press now affords such fatal facilities. We

every season is sure to be ” extraordinary,” almost every month one of the driest or wettest, or windiest, coldest or hottest, ever known. Much observation, which ought to correct a tendency to exaggerate, seems in some minds to have rather a tendency to increase it.

Others, speculating quite as conjecturally and even more absurdly, seem to attribute the impending change of climate—of which they assume the reality—to the operation of men

– January 21, 1871

21 Jan 1871 – IMAGINARY CHANGES OF CLIMATE. – Trove

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