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

PROFESSORS AT UNNER. !
SITY SEEK CAUSE
HEAT. ..
Sun Spots and Cycles Re-
jectod by Way Of ExAana- +,
ton.
Terrible Drouth OF Midoe
Ages in Germany is Ne.
called.
DR.. Starr, Astronomer Lunn
and Geologlst Salisbury
Give Views.
Chicago Chronicle
The backbone of the terrific
heat which has hung over Chi
cago for a week or more past and
the long continuation of which
has not only caused death and un-
told suffering but which yesterday
set the scientists of the Univer-.
sity of Chicago to investigating
its causes was broken at ~ few
minutes after 8 o'clock last night
by storm OF ,5ind and rain. Pro-
lessor Walz, the government fore
cast official in the Auditorium
tower, said that today would he
cloudy and cooler and tomorrow
fair with northerly winds.
The official forecaster, however,
while promising q brief respite, is
unable to say what the weeks to
come have in store. That recent
weather conditions have bstiled
the usual scientific explanations is
conceded on all hands. Astrono-
mers and others of the University
of Chicago are mystitied by the
phenomena. They FEM that new
conditions may have developed on
earth, and they are 10th to pre-
oi>4 what will become of the
q popu'a'-en of the earth if the
"a maximum v~rperature continues
to increase as 1t 80 in the last
. few years.
= They declare that the Ia 4orv
: of the world has shown that hea
:. goes in cycles and that the eartl
:. = is now approaching the hotties
point in one of these heat cycles
Astronomers at the universlt
:. have been observing the sun wit
:: a view to finding whether Their
are any sun spots, which some
times account for unusual hea
- but they say that the philosopher
shows no holes and that the sofa
:: orb is emitting no exceptions
warmth from the so-called su
spots.
rs University of Chicago scientls
wa declare that the most remarkab
- al;ey'Bptnr" rs that vt lis is SO -WSiia
at spread. For this reason they al
n. somewhat at loss to call it
es cycle, for these cycles do u,
cover the entire earth, but al
10 confined to different iocalitit
periodically. One of the most r.
markable heat cycles ever recor,
= ed is found in the annals of &c
many In the middle ages, whe
the inhabitants died by the hui
'ae dreds for six months. Durir
ak this time there was not a drop
10 rain and trees, grass and all kline
of vegetable life was almost O.
he tinguished.
PERIOD OF UNPARALLELED HEA
al Meteorologists say that sin,
this remarkable period there h.
not been recorded a cycle of he
ea at all similar to the one of I'll
OF middle ages in Germany. I'll
ok histories of other countries reco1
Ad similar instances of great heat
cold and in many of them thel
on periods recur at intervals of fro
thirty to fifty years. scientif
data can be found which sho
- : that the whole earth has bee
subject to heat cycles, and ft
- this reason the meteorologists
10 the University of Chicago are
III a loss to know what the recor,
breaking temperatures exper
enced all over the globe the La
an few weeks can mean.
is "Such unprecedented hot weatl
l's or as we have been having cause
n. me to indulge in rather serio,
IN reflection" said Professor Ere,
Iis erick Starr, who was speciali
wv in meteorology before he entere
an anthropological folds. 81 hay