Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 191, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1929 — Page 16

DEC. 20, 1029

CLIMATE MAKES ONLY A SLIGHT CHANGE IN ERA Survey of 200 Years Shows Severe Periods to Be Temporary. Bm Tim** RpeeUil WASHINGTON, Dec. 20—" Good old winters" and “good old summers,” vaguely remembered by old timers of each generation, are all a myth, according to Charles F. Marvin, chief of the United States weather bureau. “If the curve of dally weather fluctuations from Adam until now were averaged by centuries," he declares In an interivew In the Amer-

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lean Magazine, “it would probably approximately a straight line. The thermometer Is only about 200 years old and while a few systematic observations were recorded in the eighteenth century, they were only for Isolated places, here and there.” Records covering a wide area of the United States have been collected only 6ince 1870, when the United States weather bureau was established. The oldest of the European meteorological stations, that of France, is only fifteen years older.” Professor Marvin points out that conditions usually held to prove that climate in changing merely constitute w’eather trends. The recurrence of these trends in the past sixty years form the basis for the claims that winters are not what they were and the summers not nearly so hot. Since IP2O, of example, winters have been unusually mild, but only in a little over half of the United States. To establish a “usual” or normal temperature for a district, the average of forty years must be taken, Marvin declares, and the statement

| that winters have been milder rei cently than usual, is based upon that average. However, the winter of 1928-29 was below normal from the Pacific to the Alleghany mountains even in comparison with “oldfashioned” weather. In the same period, the temperaj ture was above normal on the Atlantic coast, thus keeping up the equalization process despite weather : trends. The only indication of an actual weather change, Professor Marvin says, does not involve the question of wanner or colder weather in ! general, but an advance of winter i into spring. More than sixty years ago. Elias Loomis and H. A. Newton made an analysis of weather obi servatiens recorded at New Haven from 1778 to 18S5. They found Jan 10 was the average coldest day for the long period. Recently Professor Marvin made a similar calculation for New Haven and eastern United States for the period, 1870 to 1919, and found that the average coldest day was Jan 19. The experiment would indicate

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i that in fifty years, winter has ad- | vanced nine days into spring. St rveys of short periods of weathj er. 1 owever, the weather bureau I chief declares, constitute merely a : footnote in the history of a climate. , “Such a period,” he says, “may be like a sudden cold snap in a mild : winter, or a sudden rainstorm in a j season of prolonged drought—Just a kink in the record. We shall have to watch the i weather for another forty or fifty ■ years before we can know the mean- | ing of the recent winters and whether they mark a real trend. "Perhaps, after we have accumulated 500 or 1,000 years of observations, we shall be able to read clearly the meaning of the weather and its moods. For the present, we do the best we can with the fragments of knowledge that we have gathered in the few years that the weather has been studied scientifically.” Gets Even With Cop Bu United Press WALNUT RIDGE, Ark., Dec. 20. —Everett Webb paid $lO for passing a stop sign, but he had his revenge

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