HotWhopper.com's Climate history highlights from old Australian newspapers

A walk down memory lane.    
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This morning I awoke to an interesting article over at HotWhopper.com, it's a reproduction of a 1884 newspaper article in the Australian newspaper "Border Watch" titled "Cold And Heat Near The Poles."  In it the author discusses the discovery of fossil traces of tropical flora in the Arctic and the implications that Earth's climate was variable.

It then went on to discuss Earth's early atmosphere, it's interaction with the lithosphere, and the ability of certain gases to retain heat trying to escape into the cold vacuum of space.  The article ends with:

"... Many ingenious hypotheses have been proposed to account for the warmer climate of earlier times, but are at best unsatisfactory; and it appears to me that the true solution of the problem may be found in the constitution of the early atmosphere, when considered in the light of Dr. Tyndall's beautiful researches on radiant heat. 

He has found that the presence of a few hundredths of carbonic acid gas in the atmosphere, while offering almost no obstacle to the passage of the solar rays, would suffice to prevent almost entirely the loss by radiation of obscure heat, so that the surface of the land beneath such an atmosphere would become like a vast orchid house, in which the conditions of climate necessary to a luxuriant vegetation would be extended even to the polar regions.

ALBERT K. VARLEY, F.R.S. Mount Gambier, June 12, 1884."

http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2013/12/flashback-to-1884-few-hundredths-of.html

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After the article there's a reference to "more flashbacks relating to climate and Earth science from the National Library of Australia," it leads to a section of her blog that links to a collection of articles going back in time.  These articles do a good job of putting the developing science of climate change into a historical perspective.  While also exposing the lie that all this global warming talk is some sort of conspiracy intend on undermining our freedoms.  That list is followed with another one of her posts looking at the mischief making of Anthony Watts and friends.

I'm happy to do my part to help spread this information, so with a big shout out to Sou for all the hard work she puts into her blog, here's a reproduction of her collection of historic newspaper articles that shine a light on the early history of the science of climate change.

http://blog.hotwhopper.com/p/blog-page_19.html

Climate history as gleaned from old Australian newspapers 

Flashback to 1884: A few hundredths of carbonic acid gas in the atmosphere...the surface...would become like a vast orchid house

Flashback to 1906 - another ice age coming.. featuring Sir Robert Ball

Flashback to 1909: Professor Skeats on CO2 and water vapour acting as "a kind of a blanket"

From 1913 - A perspective on volcanoes and ice ages from Prof WJ Humphreys

Flashback to 1910 - the Indian Monsoon and ENSO - featuring Sir Gilbert Thomas Walker

Flashback to 1922 - World Growing Warmer - featuring The Weather Optimist from London's Daily Mail

Flashback to 1940: Gradually rising earth's temperature and Kirtley Fletcher Mather

Flash back to 1949 - Global Warming, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica and a Young Australian

featuring Gordon de Quetteville Robin

Flashback to 1947 - Arctic Climate's Alarming Change featuring Hans W:son Ahlmann

Flashback to 1957 - CO2 from Industry May be Warming Earth

Flashback to 1967: The Weather and Air Pollution featuring J Murray Mitchell Jr, Robert A McCormick and John H Ludwig

Flashback to 1972 - Scientists Fear for Arctic Sea Ice - melt may bring irreversible climatic change 

Cognition and Denial

Downside of the Conservative Brain

Climate science denier (knee) jerks

HotWhoppers, Monckton and His Scaredy Cat Prey 

Werner Brozek at WUWT claims that "at least" means "at most"! - the comments section of this article provide a pretty good example of an attempted Gish Gallop by a science denier, with circular arguments, strawmen, ignoring lost arguments, repetition, red herrings, spaghetti tactics, half-truths and completely false claims, inconsistent arguments and other silliness in a dogged determination to reject the fact that human emissions of greenhouse gases are causing the world to warm faster than ever.  It could form the basis of an exercise for a class on critical thinking.

Wild Weather

Australia's Angry Summer

A Whopper of a Heat Wave

Deniers at their worst best Weirdest

Watts is Whopping Mad (Crazy) after Marcott et al - Must be the Heat! (Most popular article)

Cook et al Paper Confirms 97% Scientific Consensus - Prompting Silly Conspiracy Theories

WUWT Policy Violation by a Clueless Female Eco-Nut

Gotta give WUWT deniers credit...

No, Mr McIntyre, you can't take any credit for scientific research on tree rings

Anthony Watts' Next Trick is to Disappear the Data

What's that about 16 years? Since 1996, you say?

The Curious Tale of Watts and His Dog

Anthony Watts visits Greenland and finds Airport UHI disease!

It's the Sun, An Ice Age Cometh - Wait! OMG - It's the Insects!

WUWT Policy Violation by a Clueless Female Eco-Nut

Dismissives Still Furious with Marcott et al

Watt a whopper of religious fervour

Fooling the bottom 8%? Oh, it's just another nutter

On Plain Denial: Watts Dismisses His Own Evidence that is Counter to His Viewpoint

Still more denier weirdness from WUWT on Marcott et al 2013

Denier Weirdness, Begorrah, from WUWT

Testing WUWT Moderation

Denier Don is Angry

WUWT Recipe: Baked Denier on Toast

HotWhopper of the Week - A Gutful of Brainless!

Yes, Mr Spooner, Deniers are Deniers

What makes fake skeptics tell such Whoppers

HotCopper Denier Classic - Aliens and Ozone

Denier Memes: The 'communist-socialist-cultist' conspiracy...