Show 0 CLIM AT I 1 ali or OF L LONDON 0 h N DOY N scientist tells of changes from tropical to arctic gradually changing and in years year to come will be like that of egypt reason Re aion found in precession of Equinox es london Lond we read the records imprinted ou on the earths crust of the so called london basin beneath our feet we find some years ago in the age of the sand gravel and clay deposits a climate about t the he same as egypt inhabited by all kinds of tropical ical plants palms pal nia cocoanut coco anut trees and animals including a fact which may appeal to our epicurean aldermen some ten different kinds of turtles long nosed and short nosed ones Chel onla Iongi and then as the ages rolled on the be climate changed from that of sub tropic at al heat to deml arctic cold from that of egypt to that of iceland and that tha t was waa years before adams time gradually then the climate began to get warmer we find in the pleistocene period together with flint knives hatchets and implements cements signs of existence of man bones of elephants i rhinoceroses rhinoceros es and hippopotami and also glacial drifts and nor folk bould jera at the day the average moan tempe temperature ratu of london Is 50 degrees fahrenheit Fabren hel whereas tho the ecology of tho the thames chami valley shows chows us that it has fluctuated in times gone by from 70 degrees to 40 degrees fahrenheit or 30 degrees from one to the other the reason for this astonishing state of things Is to be found in what Is called the procession precession of the equi boxes this Is that peculiarity tit in the lent of our globe whereby every part of the earths surface Is subject to slow alow but continuous alteration of position in relation to the heat of the sun owing to the att traction of the sun and the moon upon the earths protuberance at the equator theoretically speaking the line of the equator Is supposed to mark the line ine of the greatest heat the effect of the solar rays being greatest where they tall fall or Im impinge on earth perpendicularly cut but as a matter of fact the lines of heat beat are slowly but steadily changing entirely outside of fill all such considerations as attitude altitude gleo geographical graphical position set proximity winds etc because the earths pole does not move perpendicularly to KB its path the so called ecliptic round the sun cun but tilted at an angle which decreases and increases during certain fixed periods pett in other words climate or differences between hot and cold weather depends primarily on the slope of the suns rays to the earth climate from the greek klinot bend I 1 incline which it t itself sloped at an angle to the line of its path round the sun this steady revolution of at certain parts of the earth froc hot to cold and from cold to hot used to be con eldered accomplished once every years but recent researches show that the complete change takes years to accomplish so that we may ay estimate that it will tale take london an other to years to rech the climate of egypt to which it Is s slow I 1 ow ly approaching in support of this theory it Is curious to note the mean average temperature of london has been slowly rising during the last century so BO that london of the present day Is over 1 degrees fahrenheit warmer than it was years ago severe cold Is becoming a thing of the past snow to Is now a comparative rarity the so called old fashioned winters with snowed up stage coach 0 es a the thames frozen over amdx roasted whole and skaters on all the ponds are only to bo be seen on christmas cards the last severe winter that I 1 can remember when a boy was that of 1867 when a number of people lost their lives in breaking through tho tb 0 ice in regents park allowing of course for a certain amount of increased heat through a larger population with its concomitant increase in fires and heating ampil ance anc a such as electricity we may safely say that the london temperature Is increasing at the rate 0 of f not less than one degree Fahren fahrenheit belt every century which will bring us its to the egyptian temperature perhaps a little sooner than I 1 stated in say about years recent research has shown that the e effect of the gulf stream in bringing warmth to this country Is much less than supposed Spreading as it does when hen it leaves the coast of newfound land its temperature drops consider ably find and in summer time cannot be said to have any influence in increased warmth to england at all it Is rather to a drift of warm superficial water called the north atlantic drift that the comparative mildness of this country la Is due nut but all evidence geographical meteorological and points to the fact that england and london are slowly getting near to a warmer climate |