Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-01-10
OLD WINTERS A MYTH,
NO CHANGE IN CLIMATE
Weather Man Says Conditions
Have Remained the Same
More Than 300 Years.

Our grandpar, VINO contend that 'hf
winters nowadnVs are not nearly ~ cold
a. ttev Uero xlen ! E4s q boy ar" iit.lN
t9 dcn0unce as radical modernism . ftsie
mrnt made 2 day ar two ago bv \trrs
II Tniessen. q Baltimore Weather .prr
doforrlnR to records of tie iocaI our ~
rince is foundation IN 1871. and ~ Dones
of weather lore for generations back Eir
JhIesscn came OFT gItl the il8' prunuuaor-
mcnt that ciimqtc has not changed during
the 300 ypars since ncatbcr recording
Instruments were FIST inscntcd
Bv climate Mr. Thiessen means
that combination oF temperature. pre-
cipitati0n. humidity, wind yeloci' ard
oher factors which may he recorded on
thermometers. haroulcters, Wind gauge
and like instrument A change IN
Climate would mean 10 him varianca
tending In one definite direction IN average
climatic conditions through ! series q
periods computed frnru corresponding
SEASONS NJ successive years Ills thesis
Is that no definite trend either toward
warmth or GOODNESS has taken place IN
IT. ipast 300 years, and hc points oar that
the longer ls the series of experiments the
closer ~ establishing a uniform mean cli-
n,a'c Do they come
4ons say that thC winters are becoming
warmer and the summers hotter N vicc
versa that The streams are not ~ deep
b hry once we're. or that particulars
rigorous winter 'back II 1mpty-niue
smashed any records the younger genera
ton haF experienced lie has rhucked
quietly IN himself knowing hat records III
hi. of5ce> in most cases would prove he
old gentlemans memory iaultv 0lnce
The ideas can Do no harm he usually holds
his roaee
Where do people ge- those Impres-
sions2 he said v ell il many ca4es
think they are products of 4 trearherous
memory YOU must remember that .
ovs knee i closer - the ground than 2
man Tn youth a oig snoW.torn Is 2
memorable evcnt hut Hhereas al that
tirne he ground Was covered deep enough
- come ~ MS = alst, perhaps nov the same
depth would hardly reach above his knee
Mr. Thleassen believes, no hst the
simple process NJ moving from b NJ n
a valley n the same locality Or ylcc verse
uili produce an IMPRESSION of great
change in climate While the temper
ature NAV not BE- lower on the rill the
Increased velocity 0f the wind NAV icad
70 the bellef that one winter l= scverer
than the preceding one. whereas Ia reality
there Il little difference There seems good
evidence. he said. that certain lakes and
rivers have partially Or completely dried
NJ in comparatively recent history. bIt
even the fact * not entirely admitted
r, -clentista much ,eSs the reasons which
NAV have brought ire change about
II i a certainty ne continued, that any
such phenomenon i ,ile TO local conds-
tons and not 10 3 general change of cumat.
Delving back nto recorded history
before he invention Of weather-recording
instruments. similar lack Of evidence 9f
cIimatlc tendency i found. This extends
~ far back 4 the -pan Of he Biblical
version 81 the history Of mankind 1000
Years before the .lmc II Christ. Il tnis
Tperiod NAV b.4 extended. here S%7eJuS aDpse
evidence ihA; climatic changes hi.se 6aa
mI0rtan, effects upon ancient clvlLza-
uous
ScIenusts profess 10 nave heeD puzzled
Tor wears over the history u 81 Indian
tribe of FucAts4n nov made 3p 81 moss
abandoned Ssyages, ge. iiNsuG 2c4d rhe
runs OF majestic temples. showing cFl-
dencts Of aesthetic s0G arctlteet lral &C.
veiopmeot IL = vert 6jgh order con-
paIie0n Of the Esela contours It Ja, moo
err Indians Nth .hore y Specimens u
skulls 0i apparently ne sAnle peE!ou ~
the temples have led = the 6efef .hat
they are both members aE t6e sans ride
Il i believed that some Il vel lnanslyzcc
series OF climatic disturbances Is reepoa-
>ible FOR ht DEGRADATION u me Haas