Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-21
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That history repeats itself in freak ideas as
well as in other things is illustrated in an article
going the rounds of the press over the world,
which originally appeared in the New York Her.
aid and which describes "a scheme to make ST.
IBERIA summer resort, start ice famines ia Lab
rador, give Scotland an all-day 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 H.
G. T. Riker, "a distinguished engineer" of
Broeklyp, il. credited with the authorship of the
sehesno. According to the account he estimates
that ii would cost about 500, 900 900, and call
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 1000 900 tons of ice every sec
ond, from running right into the Gulf stream whose
heat is equal to the burning Of 100000 tons of coal
every minute. They meet now on the Grand bank,
where the water is only about $50 feet deep.
II such jetty were built the Labrador current,
coming down from the Arctic, would be turned east
ward and would be sunk so far when the Gulf stream
met II that the latter warm blue river Of the
would pass the great cold river from the North
pole, .=.z.s~~ ... g..
The warm Gulf stream would continue In almost
undminished volume to the northward, and the Lab
rador current would run mile deep through the
great depths OF 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. .-,
No more icebergs in the tracks of steamship lines,
nc more such fogs as prevail about the meeting
Of the cold and warm currents, storms reduced to
minimum and the whole of eastern North America
garden OF paradise with great cold or heat, are
some of the results Rier foresees from building
the lefty Cape Hatteras, he believes, would disap-
ar owing increased speed Of the Gulf stream
which he estimates would flow closer to the Jersey
coast and incidentally re-deposit along the coast
about 5000 900 acres of land.
The melting Of the Arctic ice cape, he estimates,
would shift eQualzing balance of the globe and
the then preponderaing weight of the Antarctic ice
can would make what is now the North pole SHIFT
toward northern Europe with the result OF produc-
inc nightless summer in the Of Scotland with
out a dayless winter.
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
yerting those regions into sub,trOpcal 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.