Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1876 — The Proposed Conversion of the Sahara Desert into a Sea. [ARTICLE]

The Proposed Conversion of the Sahara Desert into a Sea.

The proposed piercing of the Istumus of Suez ana the scheme of reconverting the Sahara into a sea has induced Dr. Rcclam, the well-known advocate of cremation,to write a warning article in his periodical, celled Gesundheit (“ Health.”) He points to a remarkable change in the climate of the Torres Straits, between Australia and New Guinea, which in 1606 were only beset by twenty-six coral islands, now augmented to 160. The gradual deviation of a warm current of sea water, owing to this successive stopping up of foe Torres passage, has already wrought a great alteration of the climate in those quarters. Dr. Roclam apprehends a similar danger for the European, and especially the German, climate from the deviation of the Gulf Stream after piercing the Isthmus of Suez. He says Europe owes its moderate climate partly to foe warm-water heating by the Gulf Stream, partly to the hot-air boating by the wind from the African desert. That hot wind, known in Switzerland as foe Fohn, is a snow-de-vourer and glacier-destroyer. Wifoout.it, the sun and the summer would not suffice to stop the progress of glacier formation. The ice-period of Europe explains itself by assuming that the Sahara was then covered with sea-water. The ice-period would return if the Detert were reconverted into a lake. Dr. Reclam, who is a friend of Fire, has decidedly an objection to the extension of the domain of Water. —London Examiner.