Mohave County miner., 1890-08-23
SLOWING UP rnE aoaTH POLE.


10 would Mako the Arctic Reston Habit
sbas and Stop North Atlantic stsruA
Did nature intend the Arctic sea to
be open and the climate moderator
And Ii II possible 10 do by means OF
dynamite what nature has omitted TO
dop These points. says the Pan Mad
0dseete, are discussed In pamphlet by
II. A. II Dunsford, c. E.. which has
just been published.
We need mot suppose for moment.
whites Mr.. Dunsford, how matters
Would stand II the ice cap were re-
moved from the north pole. The two
warm streams would In that case fiow
in exactly tho same course that they
now take. but, instead Of becoming
chilled. IS Is the case at present, would
now past the pole and southwark a.
warm streams still. They would eff
fectually keep the ice form Reforming.
aaa do away with the excessive cold
Of the Arctic regions altogether. Ma
turc II. In fact. working toward that
end. for tho climate of the northern
part Of the northern hemisphere has
BEEN steadily ameliorating ever since
the commencement of the historic Pc
Rod. In the time OF the Roman re-
public the rivers In Gaul used to freeze
over In the winter. and Roman writers
represent Germany - . land Of frozen
morasses. Compare the climate at
present enjoyed by those countries with
Shis description. and 1t will be at once
apparent how great change In eli
mato must have gradually taken place.
The records Of the HudsOn's Bay COM
pany also show that the winter on the
shores Of Hudson's bay has grown
shorter at the rate Of one day Ia ten
years. the season during which tho SEES
b open for navigation being now twen-
81 days longer than 1t was 100 years
ago. About the year 1888 the ice
barrier ON the east coast of Greenland
hogan to break up. as was noted at the
time by Sir John Barrow, who regard
ed II a. one Of the most important,
though least noticed, events In the his
torysof the world. All this Is evidence
that the Ice barrier IL being steadily
driven farther north and will eventual
" leave channel by which the japan
current can fow unchecked through
sne Polar sea from Behring's straits TO
the Atlantic, IN which case the exist
ence OF the rcwainoer OF the zee cap
VIII Do ous OF snort duration, Tor u the
warm cufrens cso actually reacn the
lee they will soon solve the question
without human assistance. At present
they do not reach ii. for the ice cap block
Ing the way leaves no outlet for them
tthe warm currents being, Of course,
surface water), ana their course y ar
rested long before they come near It by
2 wide belt Of cold water. Tor which
there y no outlet except thatthe coolest
part Of 1t escapes by flowing under tho
ice to form the cold streams.
As for the proposition that we can
open the sea, we must remember that
the Ice u not OF great thickness, that
We have now powerful explosives that
are perfectly effective when frozen, and
that every mass OF ice detached on the
course Of . stream moving southward
VIII foat away OF itself. ! DO not Of
course, mean 70 imply that 1t viii
% easy, but that II ~ within our pow
Or to make channel WIDE enough Tor
. part Of warm stream to pass with
out losing ail It's heat on the way. we
may notice also that explorers nave re-
ported open sea 70 the north OF Green-
!and. ana tnaf the accounts that they
nave gwen Us are cireumstantiai ana
can not well bc doubted. lpe main bar,
flsr WIN wn,cn we snail nave 70 zeal
sih % the pet OF ce northwest OF
Greeniand. ~ course, until u 70 com-
p'efed. tne cnannei VIII irecze over
every winter; but ! 40 not think that
sne removal OF tee ICE thus formed wiii
pe 20 sciiouS aimenity as might De
s1Recteo. Inc ice osing caused mere,