Global warming identified by Wateringbury Vicar (1895)

Post date: Feb 12, 2012 3:23:9 PM

Extract from Parish magazine of October 1895 (bold text not bold in original):

The chief excitement of the month has been the fires that have occurred in the neighbourhood: three at Wateringbury and several others not far distant, within a short period. They have been due probably to careless smokers and the exceedingly dry state of the ground. A shade temperature ranging from 75 to 85 many successive days is a record of heat for the end of September. What can have have happened to the warming apparatus of our universe? The sun to-day (September 30th) is at the same height in the heavens as it is about the middle of March !

For storms in Wateringbury see Wateringbury Hurricane (1763) and Another Great Storm (1902).