Early Climate Change Study

Reading the following excerpt from a weather study, would lead one to think this is from a typical "Global Warming" scare story from some current day magazine or newspaper. Instead, this is from 1933, when much of the globe was going through a major warming cycle. This cycle may have lead to the disastrous "dust bowl" of the 30's. In less than 10 years, the earth would move into a cooling cycle that lasted through the 70's.

The present wide-spread and persistent tendency toward

warmer weather, and especially the recent long

series of mild winters, has attracted considerable public

interest; so much so that frequently the question is asked

“Is our climate changing? ”

All of these confirm the general statment that we are in the midst of a period of abnormal warmth, which has come on more or

less gradually for many years. An example of this

auxiliary evidence is shown in figure 12, in which the

general trend of the number of days with freezing weather

in fall and in spring at Washingt,on, D.C., is charted for a

period of 6O years (data in table 2). It will be noted

that for the 20 years ending with 1892 there was for the

spring months (after February) a total of 354 days with

minimum temperature 32' or lower, and for the 20 years,

ending with 1933, this had dropped to 237 days.

Here is a link to the entire study...

IS OUR CLIMATE CHANGING? A STUDY OF LONG-TIME TEMPERATURE TRENDS

By J. B. KINCER

Weather Bureau, Washington, D.C., Sept. 29, 1933