Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1911 — No Cooler Weather Promised in Mid-December. [ARTICLE]

No Cooler Weather Promised in Mid-December.

People who have been holding on by the skin of their teeth, with the prospect of cold weather in the winter, as their only reason for continuing to exist, may now let go because, according to the latest dope, there ain’t going to be no cooler weather even in mld-December. This cheerful info l ' mation is told by the New York Sun as follows: “Why We May Expect Warmer Winters,’’ is the comforting title of a palhphlet published by Major R. A. Marriott. “Captain Scott,” writes Major Marriott, "bn his return from the Antarctic expedition, emphasized the rapidity with which the south polar ice was retreating. It is a well known fact that in the northern region's a similar condition of things is taking place. “In Canada certain lands bordering on the north have been hitherto reported too icebound for agricultural operations, but large tracts have now been found to present favorable climatic conditions owing to some change that has taken place. “Iceland now belies its name, for in mid-December, 1910, there was no snow and scarcely any frost.” Major Marriott suggests that the change is due to the diminishing obliquity of the earth's axis. “The year 2295 A. D.” continues Major Marriott, ‘.‘marks the apex of the genial period, when the contrast between summer and winter will be least This year is only 385 years of us, and we might reasonably expect each century of approach to show some slight modification of climate.”