One of the Clarence Valley’s arch-denialists is once more on the anti-climate science campaign trail…..
Letter to the Editor, The Daily Examiner, 10 February 2017, p.11:
Old heat
Browsing through past newspaper articles brought up this reminder of just how hot it's been in years gone by.
The 1896 February 3 edition of the Kalgoorlie Miner carried this article titled: Heat in NSW: A record of the extreme heat which has prevailed in the West during the last month has been supplied to the government by the Manager of Gundabook estate on the Darling river.
The record shows that from January 1-25 the thermometer ranged from 112deg. to 123deg. in the shade, during the first week from 118 to 124: during the second week from 118 to 128 and during the third week the thermometer once went to 129 degrees: All these readings are in Farenheit and when converted to Celcius range from 44.44deg. to 47.77deg to 50.55 deg to 51.11 deg, 53.55 deg, and 53.88 deg. the highest reading.
Now that was a heat wave that occurred without the assistance of the much maligned industrial revolution.
Fred Perring, Halfway Creek
As usual Mr. Perring doesn’t do his homework.
The Industrial Revolution began around the mid-1700s and over a century later (in the year cited by Perring) the effects of greenhouse gases on global atmosphere and ground temperature, as well as the possibility of fossil fuels being a source of carbon dioxide were already being discussed in the scientific community.
The following is a snapshot of a paper by Nobel Prize winner Svante August Arrhenius published in April 1896:
Royal Society of Chemistry, retrieved 11 February 2017
The paper in its entirety can be read here.
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