Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-21
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That history repeats itself in freak ideas as
we'll as in other things silustrated in an article
going the rounds of the press over the world,
which originally appeared ID The New York Her
aid and which describes ca scheme TO make ST
IBERIA summer resort, start fainines in Lab
fador, give Scotland an allday summer with a
temperature like Japan's, change the, climate of
the Atlantic coast to one like that of southern
California, and melt all the ice on and around
the North pole and open it TO gardening. s
@. l. Riker, "a distinguished engineer Of
Brocklyn Is credited with theaanthorship of the
eehemc According to tho account he estimates
that II would cost about 500, 100000, and .aall
that Is needed is to build jetty about 200 miles
long ACROSS the shoals extending eastward from
Newfoundland, near Cape Race The results Of
this work are described in part as follows.
This would stop the Labrador current whose cold
Is capable OF making 100000 tons of ice every
ond from running right into the Gulf stream whose
equal to the burning OF 100000 tons Of coal
eyery minute. They meet now on the Grand bank,
where the water is only about ESQ feet deep.
II such jetty built the Labrador current,
coming down from the Arctic. would be turned east
werd and would be sunk 50 far when the Gulf stream
met It that the latter warm, blue river of the ocean
would pass over the great cold river from the North
pole.
The warm Gulf stream would continue in almost
undiminished volume to the northward and the Lab
rsdor current would run o mile deep through the
great depths of the Atlantic making the torrid zone
about the equator cooler, while the Gulf stream
would require only three months to melt every inch
Of Ice around the Pole. "a
No more icebergs In the tracks of steamship lines
nc more such fogs now prevail about the meeting
al the Geld and warm currents, storms reduced to a
minimum. and the whole OF eastern North America
garden Of paradise with no great cold or heat are
anne Of the results Mr. Rier foresees from building
the lefty Cape Hateras, he believes. would disap-
near owing to the increased speed of the Gulf stream
which he estimates would flow closer to the Jersey
coast and incidentally fe-deposit along the coast
about 100000 acres of land. ssgs7
The melting, of the Arctic Ice cape, he estimates,
would shift the eqnalizing balance OF the globe, and
the then preponderating weight Of the Antarctic ice
cap would make what is now the North pole shirt
toward northern Europe with the result OF produc-
inR nightless in the area Of Scotland with
out dayless winter. ~ Is .s-5@ :. -s-.. . - -
An idea of similar kind was exploited many
years ago, when it was proposed to dam the mar.
row Belle Isle strait between Newfoundland and
Labrador. This, it was suggested, would stop
the Arctic current from entering the gulf of St
Lawrence, with the result of adding two or three
months to the summer of the lower provinces
and the New England states, if not actually con
verting those regions into sub-tFopical countries
The Gulf stream was going to do the rest, after
the polar current was shut off, just the same as
in Riker's scheme.