Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1902 — Hint to Coal Consumers. [ARTICLE]

Hint to Coal Consumers.

A Swedish professor, Svend Arrhenius, lias evolved a new theory of the extinction of the human raoe. He holds that tile combustion of coal by civilized man is gradually warming tlie atmosphere so that in the course of a few cycles of 10,000 years the earth will be baked in a temperature close to the boiling point. He bases his theory on the accumulation of carbonic acid in the atmosphere, wliich acts as ayglass in concentrating and refracting the heat of the sun.