New Britain herald., 1924-08-29
LOST: ONE OCEAN
 CURRENT IN NORTH
Coast of Greenland Is ASCted
 by Water

Washington, D, c, Aug, 2s.-Fhs
 west eeast Of Greenland is always
 less icy than the east coast, where
 the supply ship Tor the American
 world tlieTs has had difficulty in
 penetrating the ice hoes, But west
 eFn Greenland is even freer from ice
 this year, fer the great Labrador
 current seems to have gotten lost or
 at least to have been greatly slowed
 ID
 Cultivation Of lemons in London
 garden and relocation of Washing
 tons climate to Boston are the
 somewhat startling possibilities sug-
 gestsd. 1T the disappearance of the cooling Polar stream reported by oesanographers of the United States coast guard service should be per- manent,
 "A project was framed some years SEQ for producing artifieially such a revolution of climate in eastern North America and nearly all
 Europe which nature is apparently presenting without mans millions and toil." says bulletin Of the Ma tlonal Geographic sol~ty from their headquarters at Washington. D. C..
 The Currents Former Course
 Product of vast melting ice fields. the Labrador current constant az the seasons for uncounted years. has swept down from snowbound Raffin and Hudson bays. through Davis strait between Newfoundland and Greenland. Most of 1t drifted over the Grand Banks. one of the worlds greatest fishing grounds. slipping over the banks edge near the ocean, liner path, either mingling with the Gulf Stream or sliding under 1t. seeping down toward the equator along the ocean bottom. A small off, shoot flowed through Belle Isle straits between Newfoundland and the tip of Labrador and, joining the St. Lawrence. hugged the Nova Sco- tian and East Atlantic shores, only completely fusing with the mighty Gulf Stream off the Carolinas.
 This Cabot Stream gave New England the same climatic tempera- lures as the British Isles, although Edinburgh, for example, is as much nearer the north pole than New York, as New York is north of Ha- vana, Cuba.
 Certain scientists planned great dike across Belle Isle straits divert ing the chill waters to mid-ocean. Others proposed stretching a great cable over the Grand Banks to cause a sand-bar which was expected to confine the Arctic outflow to a deep | depression near Greenland where 1t could flow under the Gulf Stream | without cooling it and on into the sea. Undiluted the Gulf ! Stream might then reach English and Scandinavian shores even warm .r than it is now. waiting on its waves climate comparable to that If southern Japan for the British Isles.
 Iccbergs Disappear
 "Now nature seems to be putting .hese dreams to test! Ebb or the labrador current has left the great of the Great Banks water rom 6 to degrees warmer than normal. The vastness of this in- ,rease is measured by the fact that f takes about $500 times as much ,eat to raise given body of Wa CT 1 degree as 1t does a similar ,uantitv of air. Generally $50 ice ,erps float past Newfoundland dur ne April. May and June. There rere fewer than dozen during the hree months this year!
 "roast guard men searching TOT ,,a ,ost Labrador current suggested wo possibilities. The underwater idpe between Greenland and North merics may have been thrown up w earthouake action forcing the melting Arctic waters out past or through the Berlng ga. A dam of ice may have lodged ,n this same barrier producing a imilar effect.
 "Tennperature is but one strand f the net of contemporary climate chioh may be torn in the Labrador ,,rrent accident. The nlid-Atlantlc oean current junction has supposed V given rise to a permanent low , ,ressure spot near Iceland. With he junction vanished, the low yhich guides storms to Europe l night be displaced and send the { torms which sweep across America { 0 q different European port. If the { torn,e which track across Denmark !