Posted on 01/23/2004 3:00:25 AM PST by mikewats
[as printed in the Chicago Tribune, Monday, November 6, 1939, on page 9]
WORLD CLIMATE GETTING WARMER, SCIENTISTS TOLD
Weather Reports for 20 Years Show Rise
New York, Nov. 4 (AP) - World-wide evidence that climate is getting warmer was presented today to the temperature symposium of the American Institute of Physics.
The change may be the start of one of the major changes in climate which the earth has not known since geological time, long before any recorded history.
The geological changes of the past have been determined from rock and mineral deposits showing several ice ages, scattered thru millions of years. Between each ice age there was a warm period. All of these changes apparently took thousands of years to swing either up or down the temperature scale.
“Climatologists,” said J.B. Kincer of the federal weather bureau at Washington, D.C., “have considered historic climate as a rather stable thing, with short-period variations of considerable magnitude, but without especially significant trends covering long periods.
“Since the turn of the century, however, there has been such a persistent trend to higher temperatures, world-wide in scope, as to suggest that the orthodox conception of stability of climate needs some revision at least.”
He cited weather records. In Portland, Ore., in the last two decades 17 of the 20 years have been warmer than normal. The warmest was 1921. Every year since 1922 has been above average.
Omaha, Neb., in a similar period, has had 15 years warmer than normal, with the peak in 1931. In Washington, D.C., 17 years have been warmer than normal and every year since 1926 has brought above normal heat in that city. Washington’s warmest year was 1921.
Capetown, South Africa, recorded 19 years warmer than normal, with the hottest in 1927.
World-wide monthly records for 23 years show that all but four years were consistently warmer than normal. Two years were at normal and two were colder than the average. These records have been completed only up to 1932.
Altho not a part of the evidence of climactic change, the lowest and highest recorded temperatures may be involved in the change. The coldest on record was 90.4 degrees below zero in Siberia in February, 1892. The highest was 136.4 degrees, in Tripolitania, a North African possession of Italy, in September, 1922.
I found this sometime ago while doing research for my blog, Michael's Modern Blog
If this is taxes with reprsentation
Give me taxes without representation
I much prefer a tax on tea!
Instead of everything else.
They have been promising that for years.
Meanwhile I still have to pay my heating gas bills.
This warming period (1910-1940) accounts for most of the warming in the last 100 years. Temps dropped from 1940-1970 (roughly) giving rise to the cooling frenzy of the early 70's.
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