The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-12-19
WHY WINTER IS
GETTING WARM

Winters are growing warmer. AS
evidence OF this phenomenal change
in the cold season scientists point to
the retreat OF ice at both Poles (es-
timated at nearly a mile a year at
the South Pole, and the shrlnkage OF
the Swiss, Alaskan and Himalayan
glaciers bear witness to it. These
phenomena, in their turn, support va
rious geological conclusions as to the
regency of the last Ice Age. This re-
treat of ice, according to Scr1ven Boil
ton, is necessarily the result OF the
gradual reduction of the earth's tilt to
its orbit, which is known to have been
decreasing for at least 5000 years
since the first record was made.
AS further evidence of this phenom-
enon and that the Arctic regions are
warming ND. the United States consul
at BERGEN. Norway, reports to the
commerce department at Washington!
that seals are finding the waters OF
the polar seas too hot. In tact, put
few seals and no white fish are beng
found in the eastern Afct1c, while
vast shoals of herring and smelts,
which have never before venturedi so
tar north, dI DChlS
the old seal fishing grounds . :.
Explorers also report that there IS
scarce1v any ice as far north as o. de-
orees % minutes and that soundings
70 a depth of 3,lOO metres SHOW tna'
the Gulf stream is still very warm;
Great masses of ice have been replaced
Nv moraines Of earth and stones Wnile
at many points well known glaciers
aOur seasons being due to the earth $
ax;s NOT being perpendicular 1t tol-
I L1 Prof. Bolton explains IN the
illustrated London News, that the
. us The axis is inclined, the more &C
n lasD must be the seasons. ne
,, -, ,climate' means, in its origin
.;nrI;nation.' The new theory winch
aiso receives startling confirmation
ION -o archaeology and Other. sciences
, - az; that the axis is tilted TO d
mal ll,'air, mount (35 degrees, as
AGAINST 23H at the present tllde} }.n e
eTv 31756 years. At this perlou - idi nus
Wing within this Arctic circle anu DC DC
Tond # the latitude without any SUI IN
n midwinter. would be liable 10 DC
n 80 bv ice sheets descending lroi l
J J;etant elevated regions, ana many
S JUS s@r feet in thickness. This perioff
n 1lrrasents the Ice Age, the date OF
wbich has hitherto been SO enlsila'i
cal. ,or,nrtations made
:, the United States and sweden aa..r rlld
III LII 5dt 81 the Glacial period occurred
lll'uut' 5000 years ago, and CORE CORE.
ABOUT i',oGh the earth's maximum
s!}t Since then the tilt has been graz,
na1iv decreasing, and Will 11oS collJ han the
ddr,y until the year 2296' when In ehe
oor5 Nd Of minimum tilt vii! be reaem,
PERCY u % exact ratio with this decrease
ea' -; ~ the Arctic and Antart1c; circles
OF 'l roo t.di toward each Pole.
are e.,I FcetJrie in consequence thereof
w Or mur, gradually warmer IN the
are s,,,a crate Zones and regions furt i'a !,
ter,P are slowly but surely becoming iae
nolln dh,oh;tab1e. This retreat OF ice
NOR ;n turn. affect the emperatuie
mus m It, III air-currents generated WITHIN
OF the s.c a.; circle. thus modifying
g a,,ance Within IS degrees OF TN me
nl lnI Pole are found remains OF loa.
y No. ~ u formed prior to the Ice Aee'
esIs hen the earth's axis has reach-
hence ,,,,; mi,T tilt in A. D. 1920 north
ed G lil and lands near the Pole'
ern CGHa es the rich undeveloped re-
a. as, W." ~ Siberia. will more and more De
Snaned ND to colonization