The Myth of “Global Boiling” (in Australia) By James Reed

 Writers at the Alor.org blog have been hammering the idea that the climate change alarmists have been pushing that "global boiling" has occurred, as the UN director put it, and that 2023 was the hottest year in 125,000 years. Just saying it, with the vast time scale and unknowns reveals the absurdity of the claim.

But the simpler way is to search the historical records that exist. Thus, the Bureau of Meteorology had reported that Australia's hottest temperature ever recorded was 50.7C in January, 2022, at Western Australia's Onslow Airport. But, United Australia Party national director Craig Kelly checked the National Archives and found that White Cliffs, New South Wales had reached 124F (51.1C) on January 12, 1939. The place is so hot that people live underground.

In 1909, at Bourke, 800km northwest of Sydney, the temperature reached 125F (51.7C).

We do not know why the BOM missed these records; they should have found it. It could be a methodological bias produced by the intellectual culture of climate change alarmism, that contemporary temperatures must be hotter than in the past because of global warming. But, as always, what counts are the facts.

https://lettersfromaustralia.substack.com/p/global-boiling-australias-hottest

"United Australia Party national director Craig Kelly caught the Bureau of Meteorology incorrectly reporting the nation's hottest temperatures - and a week later, they still haven't corrected their webpage.

As of Saturday, the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) still says the nation's hottest temperature ever recorded was 50.7C in January, 2022, at Western Australia's Onslow Airport.

But Mr Kelly searched the National Archives and found that White Cliffs, NSW had reached 124F (51.1C) in 1939.

It gets so hot at White Cliffs that people live underground in caves. As of the 2021 Census it had just 156 people.

The tiny opal mining town 255km northeast of Broken Hill reached 51.1C on January 12 during a terrible heatwave more than 80 years ago, the archived entry recorded.

On Saturday, January 13, Mr Kelly tweeted a video showing the original log-book entry.

Letters From Australia checked if that temperature had been reported elsewhere, by looking up old newspapers at the NSW State Library archives.

Sure enough, the Sydney Morning Herald reported it on 13 January, 1939.

It was indeed an awful heatwave. Birds fell lifeless from the sky, the Daily Telegraph reported. More than 60 people died in NSW. They dropped dead of heatstroke, their names listed sadly in the newspapers.

Fires broke out across Victoria killing scores of people who tried to flee, melting the metal off the Model-T Fords.

The Sydney Morning Herald had more to say.

The White Cliffs record was not the nation's hottest - that was in 1909, at Bourke, 800km northwest of Sydney, when the mercury climbed to 125F (51.7C).

That is one full degree celsius hotter than the BoM's claimed highest temperature in 2022.

Mr Kelly said on X (formerly Twitter) that the BoM had "disappeared" the historic hottest record to support the idea that temperatures were increasing now in the era of "global boiling".

There are other possible explanations for the BoM's omission, such as simple error, or that the record was overlooked during digitisation.

Letters From Australia asked the Bureau on Wednesday morning if they were aware of the error and if so why they hadn't corrected the website, how it happened and also whether the BoM is under pressure to exaggerate recent temperature maximums to support the "climate crisis" agenda."