The Detroit times., 1913-01-28
"ON BOARD THE GOOD SHIP EARTH
7ze Coming Exodus 10 Siberia and CANADA
BY HERBERT QUICK.

But viii this always be so? No. without intending
whole. earth He is doing this by a thing done
before In the history OF the gob9the burning OF coal
Whenever ton OF coal is burned there on into
the air a great many vapcrs Among them is carbonc
acid or carbon doxde This is the gas that gathers
in the well and kills the who unwarily down
10 clean IT, IL passes into the air product OF com
bustion everywhere that combustion takes place and
always has. 1t is breaJhed in by the leaves Of plants
IL Is fatal TO animal life II breathed in strong
mixture but in the amount usually found In the air,
unless in unventIlaed well. mine, il is
not hurtfUl The forest fires, the prairie fires, the
rottng OF vegetation the Transportation OF plantsall
these have always kept in the air certain amount OF
And is adding to the amount OF burning
coal nothing burned earth before since
Up 1916 had burned 100000 in all his
tory In the year Of 1911 We burned not less than
6OO00O00O tons! This Is terrihc thing to contem-
pate-the Passengers engaged In such tremendous
robbery OF the coal bunkersbut now concerned
only with carbonic acid gas. and Its elects on the eli
mate
we keep up the increase half the extent
which certain. shall pour into the air enough
carbonic doxde to double the amount of 1t In the at
mosphere in eight hundred years The probabilities
that the amount will be trpled In less than thousand
years-and your children and mine will be here then
One OF the greatest scientists IN the world is Arrhe
MUS OF Sweden He is chemist and physicist and has
studied this matter He shows that this proportion OF
carbon doxde in the air will make the climate warmer
by acting like the glass roof OF greenhouse With the
carbon doxde increased from two and oneha to three
times, the temperature OF the whole world will be
raised to degrees centigrade-and Greenland VIII
have a good climate for farming All the good soil OF
Canada will be In temperate climate as that now
enjoyed by Missouri
Corn will be grown in the Peace River Valley.
Oranges viii be orchard fruit In Arkansas Ond Vir
ginia The suburban residents Of Chicago literally
sit under their fig trees and scuppernong grape
arbors. Cotton will be a staple crop In Iowa Ba-
nanas will fringe the shores Of the Gulf Siberia will
the farming country in the world The
great Antarctic connenone Of the greatest earth
In extentwi be the Western Canada the Scandinavia.
the Siberia Of that day and win have millions OF people
Alaska will be warm Maine now Is. And the heat
OF tropics viii be made hotter for thousands Of
years.
The increased heat will cause more evaporation Of
water yapor from the oceans-and as what goes up
must come down. this will moister climates al
most everywhere, and dryfarmng regions will be-
come a wet as Ohio.
will have fields Of good land which not good
now upon which to multipy-as 1t seems to be their
fate to do All this will take place in time shorter
than history Of England since the Norman Conquest
LIN twice the time which has elapsed since the gov
ernors palace built In Santa Fe. New Mexico-our
youngest stated
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