Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-08-01

he blood of our own bodies and
emain SO for hours at time.
lin Madrid and other cities of
Spain the temperature has ranged
rom 100 TO lis degrees. Then
N the northern part of Russia it
lAhotter than it has ever been
kntwn to be before. Similar re-
ports como from all parts OF the
globe. More persons have died
in New York during the last hot
spell thaIDwere killedin the Span
lsh war. We read of the lists Of
death caused by heat, but We fail
to realizs the meaning of it all.
When we compare the less of life
by heat with loss of life by war
and find that heat killed moro in
two weeks than war did in two
years we begin to realize what
this terrible temperature means.
eve do not often consider thel
delicate balance of temperatures.
just n few degrees of heat added
to the scale or n few degrees of i
cold would work dire conse.
quences. Only a few degrees of
heat added to the present high
temperature or even the present
temperature, if continued for any
great length of time, would ex-''
tinguish all life, both animal and
vegetable. Any very unusual ir-
regularity of the great clouds or
blankets Of vapor and gases which
surround the sun would be suffi-
cient to depopu'ate the globe"
ASTRONOMER STUDIES THE SUN.
Professor Arthur G Lunn of
the University of Chicago in the
department of astronomy has been
taking frequent observations of
the sun to ascertain whether there
wore any irregularities which
;3ht be the cause of the unpre-
esm heat.
been absolutely
' to observe" said DR. LUZ SSn !, ao'e !,
y there is no idication that the Ill III
. usual temperature has beer
: caused by sun spots. Some scient
!, lists maintain that when there il
Q an opening in the philosopher
r or the outer vapor covering of tn
j sun more heat reaches the eartl
n through this sun spot or hole. /
is thought that these gases an,
is vapors which surround the SUI
'e to depth of hundreds of mile
= the earth and other planets fro1
g being burned to a crisp"
a Professor RoIlin ID Salisbury q
y the department of geology an,
e meteoroloey holds more con
% servative view of the changes i
= the climate. He thinks that fiji
\ present bulge in the temperatur
r is due to periodic variations q
n climate.
i "lt is popular notion that ou
9 climate is changing said ID
II Salisbury. "The winters, for es
Is ample, are often said to be les
< severe and the summers hottie
than when old men we're BOYS
r These erro arise in the frs
place from the natural exaggers
! ton of past events and from til
: disposition to forget facts of o,
- binary value and dwell on excer
y tional occurrences, and in tn
!. second place from certain cred
= Utility regarding unseen and re
= mote processes.
n RECORDS SHOW COMMON ERRORS.
lc Records of rainfall and TEN
" peratures maintained for the long
n est series of years do not confir1
II the common ideas regarding GU
1t winters and summers. The aver
1t ages for decades in the early par
l. of the century are essentiall
l. equal to those now obtained. ]
st slight changes appear they ar
much more likely to be due t
l. changes in the instruments use,
s or in their surroundings, as by tn
IS growth of trees or the building Q
L houses or to changes in the resi-
" dence of the observers than i
q actual changes in terrestrial o
9 nonterrestrial controls of climate
q cit is true that slight tluctua
g tions in eleven years, correspond
q ing to sun spot cycles, have beel