Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1901 — Sun Spots Fake Comes Again. [ARTICLE]

Sun Spots Fake Comes Again.

Every time there is an unusually long and severe hot spell, in any part of the world, some seeker of notoriety comes up with a theory that the earth is growing hotter, because of the prevolenoe of’ spots on the sun. And in any unusual oold spell, it is declared that the earth is growing colder, for the same reason. Just now it is on “Prof.” Gerrett P. Serviae of Ithioa N. Y. who is proclaiming that the long hot spell this summer is the result of sun spots,, and that the spots will grow spotter and the hots will grow hotter, for several years to come. If the spots cause the hots, the increased heat should extend all over the earth, but there is abundant eyidenoe that suoh is not tne case. Right in Seryiss' own be might in fact, have found ample disproof of his theory. For in Buffalo, where the same spotted sun shines as in Kansas, the temperature has not been above 82 degrees this summer. In Portland Oregon, the temperature has averaged 10 degrees lower than the normal, all season-

In San Diego, Cal., a far southern oity, the temperature has not been above 70. In various inland southern cities, where the spots would naturally get in their work worst, such as San Antonio, Birmingham, Mobile, Vioksbnrg and Dallas, the temperature has not been above 82 degrees. The heat of the son is a practically unvarying quantity, and extreme spells of weather are owing to local and atmospheric onuses and not to any ohange in snn or stars