Thursday 16 February 2017

' Australia's Hottest Day on Record in 1828 '








I am coming out and proudly declaring the following:
1. I am an Aussie white bloke of European decent!
2. I am heterosexual!
3. Although not religious I tend to believe in the so-called Christian values and
beliefs!

Sir Mike's Comments 16/2/2017

Subject: ' Australia's Hottest Day on Record in 1828 '
The following information largely comes from: The Bureau of Meteorology,Wikipedia, Lance Pidgeon
( Silliggy ),JODOVA, Jennifer Marohasy and a variety of other government departments and media.

People I have just gone through the last couple of days,with some temporary relief currently only
to return in a few days,of 46 plus degrees heat by midday with overnight temperatures of 26 plus
degrees,with a very strong north westerly wind that has dried the grass to a consistency the
equivalent of an ' Arnotts potato chip ', with the previous few weeks a fairly consistent 30 plus
every day and over night to 20 plus, plus the strong smell of smoke in the air from bush fires.

Prior to me becoming a Grey Nomad some 6 plus years ago I lived for some 40 plus years in the
Winmalee/Springwood Blue Mtns area, where every year there was a bush fire of some sort in
various parts of the Blue Mtns, mainly in the summer months but if the winter was a very dry
one then there too,and ofcourse these are just the possible facts of life if you want to live in
these types of areas.

On or around Thursday the 13th October 2013 a tremendous bush fire happened in a road where
I had a house for some 35 plus years, before I moved into Springwood, by the name of Buena Vista
Rd, Winmalee which I visited after the bush fire only to find that every house leading up to my old
place and a neighbours place to the left of me, and beyond, plus some houses across the road,
were all burned to the ground yet neither my house or my neighbours were not even scorched in
anyway just somewhat blacken by the smoke,WHY??

Well my then wife and I had the house built up there so it was brand new when we moved in in
the early 1970's and we straight away started to plan the very large block which over looked a
very deep gully, the very same gully that was totally burned out on or about Thursday the 13th
October 2013.

Now this was before the internet so we had to do our homework and first up we asked the local
bush fire brigade blokes to come and look at the block and give us some advice on the types of
trees that were comparatively safe and where to put them, plus what blue gum trees to get rid of,
this was before we had these current,oppressive, obnoxious, over bearing Blue Mtns bureaucrats
telling us when to breath and what form to use before we did.

I then went to various Garden Centres plus the Blue Mtns Library and decided on Tortured Weeping
Willows and a Canadian Maple, much to the amusement of many of my then neighbours, many of them
still there when their houses burned down losing everything, because I was informed one way or the
other that their leaves, which turned out to be correct, where not combustible they just shriveled
up with the heat, and because all three over the years had discovered a good source of water under
my block had grown into huge trees rising say at least 40 - 50 feet,? whatever that is in metres?
high reducing the possible heat radiation and protecting both my and my neighbours houses.

Also I had built a retaining wall some 30 feet ? metres? away from the back of the house where
these trees were planted some further say 10 feet the other side of the wall, leaving a grassed area
between the house, facing the gully, and these what were to become huge protective trees.

Although I had both a gym and bar room underneath the house apart from one door entrance and
sufficient extractor fans and vents the under house was fully bricked in and therefore not allowing
any embers, or heat/flames to enter, and because we had the very deep gutters put on the house
I would suggest, not being there, the embers fell into the deep gutters, hopefully having been
cleaned out, and just harmlessly burned themselves out.

Now I realise that some poor buggers do what I did and take the protection of their family and
family assets very seriously, and yet still very sadly lose everything, just proving there are no
guarantees in life you just do your best.

However on driving by the burned out shells of houses it was obvious that all the houses lost did
not do any of this: they had over hanging trees to their houses and carports, bushes/plants under
their eves which was obvious with where the burned stalks and tree trunks were, building material
and garden rubbish still smoldering along side where what remained of the house walls, and I
know from past experience and observation most had open timber decks and awnings with many
having small plants and shrubs along side and or underneath.

I should point out that months later both the Tortured Weeping Willows and the Canadian Maple
were recovering very nicely with plenty of new healthy growth.

Now over the years I was there at Buena Vista, Rd we had many previous close calls in regard to
bush fires coming very close in both the gullies either side of the road, and I had many conversations
with the very neighbours that lost their homes about fire safety around the house and they had from
time to time visited my place, but no " She'll be right mate it's all under control we know exactly
what to do " and admittedly this fire happened while many were away on holidays or were at work,
however knowing the situation as I did I don't believe that had most of them been there anything
would have ended differently.

Now a lot of these bush fire catastrophes/disasters where brought about by what I previously
described as the oppressive obnoxious Blue Mtns bureaucrats plus the policies of the local
government Greenie Councilors who made it ideologically very difficult to clear or partially clear
your residential block to avoid bush fire damage,and ofcourse in the majority of cases supported
by the then bush walking Bob Carr who was then the NSW Labor Premier for a long time, we had
to wait until after the October 2013 disastrous fires I am referring to here and and Liberal/National
State government to get these insane restrictions changed.

Some few years after I had planted the Tortured Weeping Willows and they were doing very well, I
had reason to get a Blue Mtns so-called Health Inspector on site because I was having problems
with the council pump out system and as soon as he observed the Willows he informed me that
I had to remove them as they were classed as a " Noxious weed " other wise I could be fined for
having them? that is just how ridiculous things had become with the Greenie dominated Blue Mtns
Local council, needless to say I just ignored the arrogant bastard and as it turned out in October
2013 it was a good thing I did!!!!!

Now people you could rightly ask why am I going on about heat,dried grass, bush fires and
obnoxious local government bureaucrats and ideological Greenie Blue Mtns councils.




Armageddon

Well:

(1) It is just to show that I am aware what it is like to live in oppressive heat day and night,
and having to be fully aware, sometimes on a daily basis, the challenges of living in a
bush fire prone area.

(2) I am sick and tired of bureaucrats, ideological Greenie/Labor and people of self interest
such as climate scientists/researches and the like trying to convince/brain wash the Aussie
population that come what may in order to save the planet Earth in 10,20,30,50 or 100 years
that unless we move our energy needs to the current much more expensive and far less
reliable alternative energy, because as we are fully aware Mother Nature is very unreliable
and has a mind of her own and if we try to second guess her we do so at our peril, we as the
people of the world can expect " Armageddon " ??.

However ofcourse these " Doom & Gloom Sayers " won't be around to be held to account
when their so-called " Modeling " just proves to be yet another expensive " Guesstamate ".



Jay Weatheral - The South Australian Premier.

Well people we have discovered just how modern society relies on electricity and without it
just brings the modern society as we know it today to virtually a dangerous and very expensive
total shut down, as happened in that basket case, in every way, of an Aussie state like South
Australia where the states energy costs, including gas, are the highest in Aussie and in many
ways I gather by modern societies standards world wide.

Now this must further reduce the standard of living,empty the wallets,purses,bank accounts,
of the good citizens of South Aussie as well as in the long term increase the unemployment
figures,where currently SA unemployment figures are the highest in Aussie at about 6.8%, as
more and more Aussie companies close down there - the vehicle manufacturing is a prime
example with the possibility of the Steel Industry to follow - and move off shore where their
energy costs are less and reliability is greater, labour, government red/green tape, let alone
company tax is a lot less to name but a few of the reasons.

Bearing in mind that the majority by far of the people I know that have had solar panels put up
on their roofs would not have done so without the Tax Payer funded subsidies, or the ability
to sell excess power back to the grid, especially as the current and past solar panels have only
a 10-15 year shelf life with regard to the harsh Aussie climate, at a cost of between $5 - $10,000,
depending on the system, and excluding storage batteries.




The above is a colour coded map showing the 6 climate zones of Aussie as a result of the
countries/continent size.

1. Dark brown at the top - Equatorial.2. Green again at the top - Tropical.3. Grey - Subtropical.4. Light brown - desert which is 20% of the total Aussie land mass.
5. Light tan - Grasslands.
6. Blue - Temperate climate.

The bulk of the 24 million Aussies that live here can be mainly found in the Dark brown, Green,
Grey and Blue zones.

There are more people that live in the Western Sydney suburbs than the whole of the Aussie
Rural areas, therefore when these ideological climate change people, carbon trading and
alternative energy advocates refer to Aussies actual emissions and pollution, not our 1.5%
contribution to global warming, these would be the zones where they would be referring too.

I am sure the modern countries around the world would be viewing this and saying " Half your
bloody luck " when comparing to their overcrowding.

Now let us look at the disastrous effect Aussie will have on the worlds climate if we don't do
what these ideological and self interested climate change people say we must, in order to be
a world leader and show the world we are prepared to do our share of the heavy lifting.

Aussies land mass is about 7.692 million square kilometers being about 5.5% of the total world
land mass of 149.45 million square Klms, for just 24 million Aussie citizens,and is the sixth
largest country after Russia,Canada, China, USA and Brazil and is the only one of the six
nations to be completely surrounded by water, ( hallelujah to that brother and sisters,
hallelujah to that!! and I have no doubt all the other Five nations mentioned would state
( Half yeah bloody luck mate !!! )

The Aussie land mass is:

1. Almost as big as the USA that has a population of some 324.1 million and is responsible
I gather for some 5,334,000 million tons of CO2 emissions or 14.95%, per capita because of
the size of the population 16.5%.

2. If we exclude Russia that makes up 40% of Europe and only include the European Union
then Aussie is 52% ' GREATER ' than Europe with a population of some 590.7 million and
3,415,000 million tons of CO2 emissions or 9.57%, per capita because of the size of the
population 6.7%.

3. Russia with a population of 143.4 million with 1,176,000 million tons of CO2 or 4,95%,
per capita 12.4%

4. Aussie is 32 times greater than the whole of the United Kingdom with a population of
65.1 million and 415,000 thousand tons of CO2 emissions or 1.16%, per capita 6.5%

5. Although Aussie as a country is smaller than China which has a population of
1.382 billion and 10,540,000 million tons of CO2 emissions, and rising, or 29.9% and
spread over such a huge population the per capita is only 7.6%.

6. Aussie again is a smaller country wise to Canada but has about the same economy mix,
and they have a population of 36,286 million and 565,000 thousand tons of CO2 emissions
or 1.58%, per capita 15.9%.

7. Brazil a much larger country than Aussie with a population of 209.5 million, a good
Catholic country anti-birth control, and 501,000 thousand tons of CO2 emissions or 1.40%,
per capita 2.5% because of the size of their population.

8. Aussie with a population of only 24.1 million and say 409,000 tons of CO2 emissions or
1.15%, per capita, again due the small size of our population and that being only 0.3% of
the worlds population which obviously increases the percentage and makes it look far
worse than it really is, making it great food for the pro-climate change, advocates for a
carbon trading and renewables mob, is 17.3%.

Now something I have mentioned many times in mike's comments which the pro-climate
change, carbon trading and renewables mob very conveniently, and in my and others point
of view purposely, fail to point out that calculating Aussie emissions is based on production
rather than on a Aussie consumption bases, which means on goods imported into and
consumed within Aussie such as products like many and various motor vehicles are allocated
to the country of manufacture.

Like wise anything that is manufactured here in Aussie that requires substantial amounts
of electricity from so-called greenhouse gas emitting coal-fired power stations and exported,
and although consumed overseas the emissions of it's production, such as many of the
409,000 tons or 17.3%, per capita of 1.15% are allocated to Aussie, greatly distorting Aussies
domestic contribution to Global Warming, and thereby using these figures to frighten, brainwash
Aussies into believing that every violent storm, flood, fire, the bleaching of the coral and other
extreme weather patterns that we witness is due to the fact that the Aussies emissions are to
blame, and this will all go away when we convert over to renewables, yet if you look at the
countries I have mentioned here, and they are only 7 of a list of 220 countries mentioned on
the world wide CO2 emissions list, then this is ABSOLUTE BLOODY RUBBISH!!

Let's face it what product does Aussie grow, produce, mine, extract that we export, as an
exporting nation who's economy would fall flat on it's face without exports, that does not
require electricity in some form or other and ? how do we define what is, or not, using coal
fired generated electricity, and let's face it it will be decades, if ever, that Aussie can afford
to switch over to the costly, unreliable 100% renewables.

Then ofcourse with the advent of electrically powered vehicles putting extra strain on the
already peak hour demand of between 6 pm and say 8 pm when vehicles are put on charge
over night for the next day competing with the usual domestic demand, especially if there
had been rainy windless days draining household batteries and putting extra strain on the
network? what then ? no vehicles no work the next day?

Many of the so-called climate change scientist/experts - the definition of an expert " A drip
under pressure " maintain that unless we control Aussies CO2 emissions we can expect a
lot more weather changes - more drying, more heat, more wet, more violent storms, more
floods and fires and the list of " Doom & Gloom " guesstamates seems to be endless all
ofcourse needing funding for years, if not decades, in the way of Tax Payer grants via the
local,state and federal governments and why not ? I can understand that they must have
cost of living bills to pay like the rest of us, however surely we as Tax Payers are entitled
to ask what of their priorities is paramount.

However as I pointed out previously in this blog - refer climate zone map above - Aussie
is such a huge continent that it has (6) climate zones which range from tropical rainforests,
deserts and cool temperature forests to snow covered mountains, although I have yet to
see where any of these " Doom & Gloom Sayers " have produced a comprehensive report
covering all (6) climate zones with some factual forecasts in regard to how, when, where
and by how much the Aussie, NOT THE WORLD WIDE ACCUMULATIVE EFFECT OF CO2
EMISSIONS, will effect all the (6) climate zones.




The Aussie climate rainfall pattern is classed as ' Concentric '.

Aussie is the smallest of the worlds continents as well as the lowest, flattest and apart
from the Antarctica, the driest.

Aussie has a massive desert in the centre which represents some 20% of our land mass
in the arid and semi-arid regions which stretches across a vast amount of SA & WA far
south of western Queensland, far north corner of NSW and nearly half of Northern
Territory where there are very high temperatures which can be up to 50 degrees plus
during the day in the summer, and this is where our recent extreme weather came from
where temperatures rose to 46 degrees plus in parts of NSW and although not so hot also
effected southern Queensland and Northern Victoria, and all this occurred due the lack of
cloud cover in central Aussie and the strong North Westerly winds carrying the heat
downwards and did, and still do, the obsessive climate change mob have a feast on
that one, seemingly every natural phenomenon that occurs now, and from a decade or
so in the past is due to climate change - there I told you so factor!! " Armageddon is Nigh "
repent you CO2 sinners or forever be dammed in the annals of history as climate skeptics.

The fact that Aussie has this massive desert in it's centre with it's lower than average
rainfall means that the rainfall pattern in Aussie is what is called ' Concentric ', which
means that the rainfall falls around this extensive arid core of the continent and ensures
that the rainfalls highest intensity is in the tropics and some coastal areas, and I am sure
this has happened long before any humans of any kind inhabited Aussie.

It is obvious when you look at the weather charts on the nightly TV news that because
of Aussies continental structure with such a flat hot very dry centre Aussie is unable in
most cases to generate enough moisture to form clouds of our own and therefore
rely on weather fronts coming in from the North, North West, West, South West, South
and North East, for our very variable rainfall, and of course the El Nino-Southern
Oscillation index which often the climate change fanatics very conveniently fail to mention
as a possible contributor to say the eastern Aussie droughts where the El Nino in the
warm central and eastern Pacific Ocean can cause major swings in Aussies weather
patterns.

People I have found over my many decades on this earth that most of the academics
from either Universities and other institutions, well those especially appearing on the
ABC and SBS that seem to be especially picked to confirm both the ABC's and SBS
managerial bias and agenda, are card carrying liberal lefties, certainly Labor or Greenie
narrow perspective voters, and are just " Doom & Gloom Sayers " no matter the
subject: climate,health, politics, LGBTQI,economics, foreign trade, refugees, religion
and the list goes on.

Now ofcourse there are many reason, ain't there always?, for this and this is because
the media generally, but certainly the ABC and SBS, lap up negative, controversial
news especially if the person has a fancy academic title such as Professor and these
academics obviously know this, which can mean notoriety, public speaking fees, book
sales and a higher standing within the academic world that could have an effect on
whether that academic has their tenure/contract extended or not, and certainly would
not go amiss when seeking Tax Payer funded grants for research.

In my short life of 76 plus years I have seen that many stuff up's, some serious some
not, by so-called qualified experts,either individuals and/groups,and their so-called
accurate modeling at the time predicting like some fortune teller, and about as good!
never to be seen or heard of again, but having received a small fortune as ill gotten
gain for their troubles, and there are many of our past pollies across the political
spectrum and at all levels of this over governed country that easily fall into that category.

Do I believe that the worlds climate is changing one way or the other ? well how could
it not be with half the (7) billion people on this planet - 3.5 billion and climbing - wanting
the same as the other 3.5 billion have, therefore I believe getting a consensus on climate
change until this equalisation happens is a pointless exercise, however I don't believe
Aussie should allow these ideologically obsessive, carbon trade and alternative energy
mobs to increase energy costs, reduce our current and future standard of living,by
making it to expensive and uncompetitive to produce and export any of our commodities
or products to try and save the planet decades,generations into the future.




Dinosaurs.

At my age and fast approaching my used by date unless a gigantic meteorite collides
with the world and like the dinosaurs wipes my half of the human race out, then I should
survive whatever these bunch of self interested amateur pollies decide to do, it's the
inexperienced and somewhat naive 0-40 year olds that concern me, because if the way
our pollies across the board and political spectrum have managed the countries finances
and wellbeing is anything to go by these young people should be very,very concerned
indeed.

However we should bear in mind that these amateur pollies will always have the fully
funded Tax Payer $120 billion ' Future Fund ' - and climbing ever year - to fall back on
should they get voted out for incompetence, lack of their duty of care, or just retirement,
regardless what or how their ideological hairy,fairy, expensive thought bubbles turn out,
leaving us mug plebbs to carry the problems into the future!!


An elephants bum.

I have stated many times on various mike's comments and will continue to, that no matter
what 24.1 million Aussies that live on this vast continent called Australia does, or does not
do, in regard to climate change will, as compared to the world wide situation, be no more
than:
                                ' A PIMPLE ON AN ELEPHANTS BUM ' by comparison!!

Ok people whinging can become a boring and thankless art form if practiced often enough,
however trying to make a difference for yourself and others, regardless how frustrating
that might be from time to time, has many positive rewards!!!!!!

Sir Mike Howe - but you can call me Mike - Scroll down.

Australia's Hottest Day on Record 1828

 
Not 2017, BUT 1828 at a blistering
53.9 °C
Back before man-made climate change was frying Australia,
when CO2 was around 300ppm, the continent savoured an
ideal pre-industrial climate.... RIGHT?

This is the kind of climate we are spending $10bn per
annum to get back too... Right again?
We are told today's climate has more records and more
extremes than times gone by, but the few records we have
from the early 1800's are eye-popping.

Things were not just hotter, but so wildly hot it burst
thermometers.
The earliest temperature records we have show that
Australia was a land of shocking heatwaves and droughts,
except for when it was bitterly cold or raging in flood.

In other words, nothing has changed, except
possibly things might not be quite so hot now!
Silliggy (Lance Pidgeon) has been researching records
from early explorers and from newspapers.
What he's uncovered is fascinating! It's as if
history is being erased!
For all that we hear about recent record-breaking
climate extremes, records that are equally extreme,
and sometimes even more so, are ignored.
In January 1896 a savage blast "like a furnace"
stretched across Australia from east to west and lasted
for weeks.
The death toll reached 437 people in the eastern
states.
Newspaper reports showed that in Bourke the heat
approached 120°F (48.9°C) on three days.
The maximum at or above 102 degrees F(38.9°C)
for 24 days straight!
1. By Tuesday Jan 14, people were reported falling dead
in the streets.
2. Unable to sleep, people in Brewarrina walked the
streets at night for hours, thermometers recorded 109F at
midnight.
3. Overnight, the temperature did not fall below 103°F.
4. On Jan 18 in Wilcannia, five deaths were recorded in
one day, the hospitals were overcrowded and reports said
that "more deaths are hourly expected".
5. By January 24, in Bourke, many businesses had shut
down (almost everything bar the hotels).
6. Panic stricken Australians were fleeing to the hills in
climate refugee trains.
As reported at the time, the government felt the situation
was so serious that to save lives and ease the suffering of
its citizens they added cheaper train services:

What I found most interesting about this was the skill,
dedication and length of meteorological data taken in the
1800's. When our climate is "the most important moral
challenge" why is it there is so little interest in our longest
and oldest data?

Who knew that one of the most meticulous and detailed
temperature records in the world from the 1800's comes
from Adelaide, largely thanks to Sir Charles Todd.
The West Terrace site in Adelaide was one of the best in
the world at the time, and provides accurate historic
temperatures from "Australia's first permanent weather
bureau at Adelaide in 1856?.
Rainfall records even appear to go as far back as 1839.
Lance Pidgeon went delving into the National Archives
and was surprised at what he found.

The media are in overdrive, making out that
"the extreme heat is the new normal" in
Australia.
The Great Australian Heatwave of January 2013 didn't
push the mercury above 50C at any weather station in
Australia, yet it's been 50C (122F) and hotter in many
inland towns across Australia over the past century.
See how many are in the late 1800's and
early to mid 1900's.
You can't blame those
high records on man-made
global warming!



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