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BLACK THURSDAY.

PROBABLY one of the most terrible days of which there is any record in Australian annals was Thursday, the 6th of February, 1851, commonly known as Black Thursday. But a small proportion of our present colonists have any recollection of that day, as our total population then only amounted to about 70,000 souls, against the 350,000 of to-day. But such of their number as have access to files of the newspaper published at the time, would do well to turn them over, and, as a warning for the future, glance at the narrative of the disasters of that dreadful day.

We find it recorded that as early as seven or eight o’clock in the morning, the thermometer stood at 117° in the shade. At mid-day it sank to 109°, but in the afternoon it rose again, and at four o’clock was 113°. Monday last was about the hottest day of the present season ; yet the thermometer did not stand above 95° in the shade. Our readers who felt inconvenienced by the increase of heat between that and the usual 70° or 75° will have some difficulty in imagining the sensations produced by a still further rise of 20°. The intense heat of Black Thursday was not it’s only peculiarity. From early morning it was accompanied by a hot wind, almost of the strength of a hurricane, and throughout the day the surface of the country was exposed to the full power of it’s withering influence. Bush-fires raged across hundreds of miles of country, sweeping along with almost the rapidity of lightning, and destroying, nearly instantaneously, men, women, and children, crops and homesteads, fences and gardens, and vast quantities of cattle, sheep, horses, pigs, and fowls. From the whole land arose a cry of utter desolation.

17 Jan 1857 – BLACK THURSDAY. – Trove

CO2 was a very safe 280 PPM at the time.

The National Geographic Archive | November 1976 | page 1

Sparta, Illinois is having a heatwave, and is forecast to warm into the 50s ahead of a cold front at the end of the week.

Sparta, IL 10-Day Forecast | Weather Underground

On this date in 1925, Sparta was 74 degrees, during a week long heatwave above 60 degrees.

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February 6 was generally a very warm day during the 1920s, when CO2 was below 310 PPM.

On February 8, 1937,  Seymour, Indiana was 80 degrees. Two days later – Pine River Dam, Minnesota was -41 degrees.  A range of 121 degrees in the Midwest over a two day period.

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It has been exactly five years since the New York Times announced the end of snow.

The End of Snow? – The New York Times

It has been more than twelve years since they announced the endless summer.

With Warmer Weather, Different Decisions to Make – New York Times

And it has been almost nineteen years since The Independent and CRU announced that snow is a thing of the past.

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past – Environment – The Independent

Since James Hansen’s 1988 testimony to Congress predicting global warming doom caused by a tiny increase in an essential trace gas, Northern Hemisphere snow cover has increased about ten percent.

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January snow cover has been above normal for eleven out of the last twelve years.

Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab

Undaunted by reality, government climate scientists continue to spread fact-free junk science about the climate.

There was a decline in snow cover prior to 1988, when CO2 was below 350 PPM. But since CO2 rose above Hansen’s “safe” threshold, snow cover has been increasing. And North American snow cover is higher now than it was during the early 1970s.

Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab

Not sure what this list means, but I am ahead of Nobel laureate Al Gore.

SustMeme Climate & Energy

Everyone else on the list has huge amounts of funding, and I’m the only skeptic.

Steve Goddard on Twitter: “Motor vehicle sales are skyrocketing”

Illinois set their all-time record for cold last week at -38F, with atmospheric CO2 at 410 PPM.

Cold winter weather: Deadly storm batters Midwest, Chicago, East

But it wasn’t always cold like that.  On this date in 1927, Sparta, Illinois was 76 degrees – during  a February with multiple warm spells over 70 degrees in Illinois. CO2 was below 310 PPM at the time.

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A large portion of the US was over 70 degrees on February 5, 1927.

The worst flooding in US history was occuring along the Mississippi River.

25 Nov 1927, Page 7 – The News-Review at Newspapers.com

Prior to about 1965, 70 degree weather was quite common in the US on February 5. But that was before CO2 overheated the atmosphere.

As CO2 has risen, the likelihood of warm weather on February 5th has dropped sharply.

Since experts say CO2 controls the climate, we must never let CO2 levels get that low again. Or perhaps we should – this cold weather is very dangerous, and the Democrats want to cut off the fuel supply which people need to keep warm.

Steve Goddard on Twitter: “Without fossil fuels, millions of people “

On February 4, 1962, Jefferson City, Missouri was 80 degrees.  Two days later Unionville, Missouri was -1 degrees. One week after that, Farmington, Missouri was 88 degrees. and by the end of the month, Unionville dropped to -12 degrees. A one hundred degree temperature drop in two weeks.

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