Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1891 — A Lake’s Effect on Climate. [ARTICLE]

A Lake’s Effect on Climate.

A lake has a wonderfully tempering effect on the climate. Tbps, according to M. Forel, the quantity of heat accumulated in Lake Geneva during the summer of 1889 was equal to that given off by the combustion of 31,000,000 tons of coal, or the amount carried by a coal train 1,120 miles in length. The greater part of the heat is discharged into the air of the valley during the cold season, tAas producing a milder temperature in autumn and winter. No millionaire ever dies and' leaves money for the building of a new penitentiary, though new penitentiaries are everywhere needed.