Global warming started in Ireland!

dollydishmop

**Apologies if this is a repost, had a quick hunt, but I'm on dial-up and my head would exlode if I tried to search all the past posts**

This popped up on a newsgroup I subscribe to, and I immediately thought of you guys

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Transcribed from the 14 January 1823 edition of The Strabane Morning
Post newspaper, by permission of The British Library:

The Climate.--The present winter is gliding away imperceptibly
without frost or snow. In fact, the temperature of our climate seems,
within the last forty years to have undergone an astonishing change.
Formerly a continuance of six or seven weeks' frost, commencing about
Christmas, was not deemed an uncommon occurrence--and our fields and
highways were, as this season, buried in snow. Robin-redbreasts sought
shelter in the habitations of man--other birds perished in
thousands--our cattle were housed--field labour suspended--and the youth
of the country sought amusement in snipe-shooting, skating, and other
rural sports.--At present fields are green--our cattle are turned out to
pasturage--the atmosphere is mild, and uniform in temperature, but
loaded with moisture, and pregnant with showers. Compare this with the
state of England. At Liverpool, the rivers are bound with frost. At
London, the skaters find an ample field of exercise on the Serpentine
river in Hyde Park.--To what causes can so remarkable a change in our
climate be ascribed.

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syklops

Interesting.

I wonder what Ireland's carbon footprint was in 1823.

bigbadbear

Are we ever going to have a dry summer ever again??? Ballygowan would love it anyway since we are running out of water even in the rainiest few years we've had for decades.

That article was written as the "little ice age" was ending, but temperatures didn't rise to the levels they are now. There have been several flucturations since then as well.

It proves that climate changes can and does happen without mans influence.