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Australia’s past was extremely hot, but the invenient temperatures before 1910 have been hidden by the Bureau of Meteorology – using the thinnest of excuses.

BOM has erased the record heat of Australia’s past, using the excuse that the thermometers weren’t shaded properly – but that claim isn’t supported by the historical record.

“Some of the highest country readings are given below. It will be seen that the North-western district had the worst of if—Mildura, 123deg.; Swan Hill, 118deg.; Donald, 117deg.; Beulah, 116deg.; Pyramid Hill and Hopetoun, 115deg.; and Charlton, 114deg.,

“Mildura, 123 deg., on January 5, 1906,” is now the highest shade reading that an official Victorian ther-mometer has ever registered. Previously the record was “Mildura 121½ deg., on January 30, 1904.” The record of 123 deg., at Mildura was notified to the Observatory; “The Argus” correspondent notified 122½ deg.

Officers at the Observatory rely on the records reported to them. The thermometers are supplied from the Observatory, and are reliable instruments, and the screens and other devices by means of which the “shade” is produced are the same as those in use at the Observatory itself.”

06 Jan 1906 – THE HOT WEATHER. – Trove

BOM 1995:

13010_1995_Bk77.pdf

BOM 2024:

Climate extremes and records, Bureau of Meteorology

CSIRO used to know about the heat of the past.

PH530209

But everything before 1910 has been erased.

Australian climate variability & change – Time series graphs

BOM uses thermometers next to twenty lanes of asphalt, but rejects well sited thermometers from the past.

Temperature hits all-time record in Sydney

11 Jan 1939 – HOTTEST DAY ON RECORD IN THREE CAPITALS Seven Deaths: Many People Collapse – Trove

Three days later (Black Friday) Melbourne surpassed that at 114 degrees.

14 Jan 1939 – ANOTHER DAY OF INTENSE HEAT Mercury Rises to 113…

13 Jan 1950 – Memories of Black Friday, 1939 THIS IS FRIDAY 13th

19 Aug 1940 – KOALAS FACE EXTINCTION – Trove

p1 – 14 Jan 1939 – The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 – 1954) – Trove

13 Jan 1939 – HUNDREDS FLEE FROM SWEEPING BUSHFIRE PERIL – Trove

The 1896 heatwave in Australia was the hotetst on record, and killed huge numbers of kangaroos, dingoes, rabbits and birds. Once again, BOM seems to believe that these animals were victims of improperly situated thermometers.

TimesMachine: August 18, 1896

Night time temperatures were extremely hot too. Apparently BOM believes these were due to thermometers in the sun at midnight.

23 Jan 1896 – THE HEAT WAVE. – Trove

09 Jan 1896, Page 5 – The Sydney Morning Herald at Newspapers.com

24 Jan 1896, Page 5 – The Sydney Morning Herald at Newspapers.com

14 Jan 1878 – Great Heat in the Interior. – Trove

Minnesota had their warmest winter on record in 1878.

19 Mar 1878, Page 2 – Star Tribune at Newspapers.com

28 Jan 1878 – UNIVERSAL DROUGHT.

he worldwide drought and record heat of 1876-1878 killed fifty million people.

A freak 1870s climate event caused drought across three continents | New Scientist

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World , Davis, Mike – Amazon.com

14 Jan 1878 – Great Heat in the Interior. – Trove

31 Dec 1904 – A HEAT WAVE. – Trove

After six years of rapid global sea ice loss during the last two months of the year, last year’s loss was second lowest on record, after 2014.

ftp://osisaf.met.no/prod_test/ice/index/v2p2/nh/osisaf_nh_sie_daily.txt
ftp://osisaf.met.no/prod_test/ice/index/v2p2/sh/osisaf_sh_sie_daily.txt

Growth of Arctic sea ice during December was second highest on record.

The climate of Boulder, Colorado hasn’t changed for at least 70 years, but the University of Colorado was awarded almost one million dollars to study the effects of climate change on prairie dogs.

“Researchers from the University of Colorado and Kansas State University have been awarded a grant for more than $850,000 to study the impacts of climate change on prairie dogs in the Boulder area.”

CU to study impact of climate change on Boulder prairie dogs – Boulder Daily Camera

There hasn’t been any climate change in the Boulder area.  What is it that they were studying?

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/all/USC00050848.dly

Sea ice extent in both hemispheres is higher than it was in 2005.

Index of /NOAA/G02135/

Climate superstitions are nothing new, and are based on a lack of knowledge of both science and history

Global sea ice extent is declining at a record slow rate. Experts say it is the hottest year ever.

ftp://osisaf.met.no/prod_test/ice/index/v2p2/nh/osisaf_nh_sie_daily.txt
ftp://osisaf.met.no/prod_test/ice/index/v2p2/sh/osisaf_sh_sie_daily.txt

According to Michael Mann, communism is necessary to maintain democracy.

“Midwest Swelters In Unusual Fall Heat Wave
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
An unprecedented autumn heat Wave seared a large area of the ‘mid-continent like a blast from summer’s weather oven Tuesday. ‘Old heat records were vaporized into oblivion.

The mercury bounded to 99.2 degrees in Chicago. It smashed the old 87 degree record for the date by 12.2 degrees. The old record had stood since 1898. The new reading also set a new record of 41 days of 90-degree or higher temperatures for the year and is the highest on record for so late in the season. The temperature soared to 97 degrees in Indianapolis, topping the previous high reading of 88 for the date by nine degrees.

The 101 recorded, at St. Louis made if the hottest day this late in the season in the 80-year-old annals of the weather bureau. It was the 78th day of 90-plus heat there this year—also a record.

The mercury hit 101 at Little Rock, Ark., 100 at Quincy, Il., 97 at Nashville, Tenn., and 95.3 at Oklahoma City, Okla.”

30 Sep 1953

30 Sep 1953, Page 1 – The Jacksonville Daily Journal at Newspapers.com