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25 Aug 1877 – Dreadful Effects of Drought in California.

Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs

Global warming nutjobs have now officially adopted the language of the Inquisition. You can only be a “heretic” of a religion.

Don’t give climate change heretics an easy ride | Jay Griffiths | Comment is free | The Guardian

The “Federation Drought”, 1895-1902

Many of Australia’s worst droughts occur when one or two very dry years follow several years of generally below average rainfall. Such was the case in the so-called “Federation drought”, which began in the mid 1890s and reached its devastating climax in late 1901 and 1902.

The five years leading up to Federation (January 1901) saw intermittent dry spells over most of the country, particularly in 1897 and 1899; in most of Queensland, dry conditions were virtually unbroken from 1897. Most other parts of the country had reasonable rain in 1900 and early 1901, but with the coming of spring 1901 very dry weather set in across eastern Australia. By February 1902 concerns were expressed about Sydney’s water supply, and the New South Wales Government declared 26 February a day of “humiliation and prayer” for rain in that state. Similar declarations were made in Queensland in April and Victoria in September, as the drought worsened.

Despite the pleas for divine intervention, things only got worse. Though there was some winter-spring rain in Victoria and NSW, cold weather nullified its usefulness. In Queensland, enormous sheep and cattle losses were being reported by August. On some far western properties, cattle numbers plummeted from tens of thousands to mere hundreds. Rivers in western Queensland dried up; at Bourke, the Darling River virtually ran dry. Further south, towns near the Murray River such as Mildura, Balranald and Deniliquin – at that time dependent on the river for transport – suffered badly. The Australian wheat crop was all but lost, with close to the lowest yields of the century.

BOM – Australian Climate Extremes-Drought

CO2 was at very safe levels in 1929

Geraldton Guardian and Express Friday 29 November 1929

29 Nov 1929 – DROUGHT CONDITIONS SAN FRANCISCO’S PLIGHT. FORES…

Spurs now have Americans at both ends of the pitch.

Cold night breaks August records in places

Tampa, Florida. Exterior GOP Convention. Sign on door reads, “Monday is canceled because of violent weather caused by altered climate. The Oil and Coal Lobby Cocktail Hour will be moved to higher ground.”

Why, then, do we seem unable to grasp the immediacy of global warming even as altered climate shuts down the Republican National Convention and ever-expanding hurricane seasons take their toll in lives and damage?

Weather To Climate Change Deniers: “How’s Your Convention Going?” | Santa Monica Mirror

Florida has not been hit by any hurricane for seven years, the longest such period on record.

Alarmists were hoping for a major hurricane, but all they got was some forecasts from NOAA which missed by a thousand miles. There was no violent weather in Tampa at all. Besides being insane, these people are complete imbeciles.

h/t to Marc Morano and Tom Nelson

Portland Guardian  –  11 April 1867

11 Apr 1867 – WORLD’S END PROPHECIES.

the arctic is now at its warmest state in history

– Ed Markey

NBCNews.com 

People who say things like that should volunteer to live there. The entire summer was below normal temperatures in the high Arctic (as it has been for the last dozen years) and parts of Alaska and Siberia had one of their coldest winters and summers on record.

People were saying the same things 60 years ago, but unlike Markey they actually knew what they were talking about..

CLEVELAND, Feb. 16 (A.A.P.) Dr. William S. Carlson, an Arctic expert, said to-night that the Polar icecaps were melting at an astonishing and unexplained rate and were threatening to swamp seaports   by raising the ocean levels.

Leading Arctic expert from 1953

The glaciers of Norway and Alaska are only half the size they were 50 years age. The temperature around Spitsbergen has so modified that the sailing time has lengthened from three to eight months of the year,”

Leading Arctic expert from 1952

LONDON (A.P.).-The earth is getting warmer. The oceans are getting deeper. The glaciers are getting smaller. Even the fish are changing their way of life.

All this and more is going on because of a vast, unaccountable, century-by-century change, in climate. In his study at Bedford College in London, Britain’s distinguished geographer, Professor Gordon Manley, is worrying about it.

Leading geographer from 1950

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