{"id":303644,"date":"2024-02-21T08:42:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T07:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=303644"},"modified":"2024-02-21T08:42:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T07:42:21","slug":"carnarvon-worlds-hottest-place-yesterday-is-barely-any-hotter-than-it-was-in-1896","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=303644","title":{"rendered":"Carnarvon \u201cworld\u2019s hottest place yesterday\u201d is barely any hotter than it was in 1896"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Jo Nova<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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\u2014 (AAP) NZ Herald<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In Carnarvon yesterday the Bureau tells us that the temperature was \u201ca record\u201d 49.9 degree day (almost 122 Fahrenheit). But in 1896 the Brickhouse Station just 15 kilometers north of Carnarvon hit 121 Fahrenheit in the shade, and there were reports of birds dying and other measurements \u201cin the shade\u201d that were as high as 125F. Somehow man-made emissions have been heating the planet for 128 years but the current freakishly hot days are about the same as the ones when no one in Australia owned a car and CO2 levels in the atmosphere were still under 300 ppm<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lest we forget, there are hundreds of thermometer records from the pre-1908 era that are apparently worth nothing to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Climate change threatens all life on Earth, so you\u2019d think climate scientists would be excited about the longest historical records they can find, but for some inexplicable reason they show little interest in the historical records from 1896 when a heatwave struck and 437 people died across Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Temperatures hit 50C in the shade in many places in January 1896.\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0In locations hundreds of kilometers apart, people were reporting similar temperatures. Perhaps they were all wrong?<\/p>\n\n\n

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At Yalgoo over Christmas 1895 temperatures reached 122 to 127F:<\/p>\n\n\n

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At Southern Cross a man died in his office chair. The heat\u00a0averaged<\/em>\u00a0115 and reached 122F.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A child succumbed to the heat in Geraldton and in Mullewa it was so hot the railway workers refused to work because it was \u201cimpossible to handle the rails\u201d. These towns are 500 km south or 300 miles away from Carnarvon.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Temperatures in Mullawa hit 121F.<\/p>\n\n\n

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January 5th 1896, Western Australia<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Inland at Cue for three weeks the temperature was above 105 F, even reaching 118 twice in the shade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1,000 kilometers south of Carnarvon, nested among forest, south of Perth, even Pinjarra experienced\u00a0 114F on Friday 3rd January 1896. This heatwave affected a vast area.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Bureau will say many of these older records were done in \u201cnon-standard\u201d equipment, but thermometers were a 300 year old technology even then. Sometimes we have records of the types of screens they used and we even have standardized comparisons of the small differences between the different screens. But the BoM is too precious to admit these old records are useful \u2014 the same BOM that doesn\u2019t care when modern sites are surrounded by hot black bitumen<\/a> or sits near incinerators<\/a>. The same BOM that shrank the Stevenson screens from 230 litres to just 60 litres<\/a> and changed the glass thermometers to electronic ones. The best measurements in our history probably came after the BOM was formed in 1908 and standardized the screens. Yet the BOM has adjusted the Carnarvon trends in those years down by as much as 2 whole degrees<\/a>. In what universe does this make sense?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The actual warming over the whole century was almost nothing until the BOM adjusted the records. Thanks to\u00a0Ken Stewart for this analysis:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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The ABC parrots the mindless weather trivia produced by the BOM \u2014 they both lie by omission<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Both institutions hide what Australians really need to know \u2014 our history:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was the nation\u2019s second-hottest February temperature on record and tied as the eighth-hottest temperature recorded in Australia.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ABC Feb 19th, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday wasn\u2019t the \u201ceighth hottest\u201d in Australian records. There are scores of days of baking hot 122 to 125F temperatures in our historical newspapers, often from the 1800s, yet the ABC never investigates, and never asks the Bureau of Meteorology a single hard question. Were all those thermometers in the wrong places? Were all those temperatures invalid? Astronomers were trained to use thermometers, it was a 300 year old technology even during the heatwaves of the Federation drought, and people knew the difference between \u201cin the shade\u201d and \u201cin the sun\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thanks so much to research by Chris Gillham, Ken Stewart and Silligy and the rest of the BOM volunteer audit team \u2014 without any funding they discover the hot records the bureau can\u2019t seem to find even with $350 million dollars a year<\/a> and a staff of 1,600 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Citizen science beats government funded science any day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the historic newspaper links for the map are\u00a0available at the original post on historic heatwaves<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Somehow man-made emissions have been heating the planet for 128 years but the current freakishly hot days are about the same as the ones when no one in Australia owned a car and CO2 levels in the atmosphere were\u00a0still under 300 ppm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":303660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Somehow man-made emissions have been heating the planet for 128 years but the current freakishly hot days are 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