Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-04-29 | Page 2 | Sun Loafing; Gives off Less Heat for Earth

Sun Loafing I Gives Off Less Meat Heat f for fOIA Earth W WASHINGTON April 28 The sun is If taking its regular and experts In the weather bureau are wearing that worried look Every eleven years the sun un takes a a layoff It doesn't go out of business business business busi busi- ness entirely but gives off less heat beat When that happens the business of forecasting the weather Is turned topsy Nobody knows Just what will happen to the I weather Right now tho sun is giving the earth three to four per cent less heat eat than normally according to ht studies dies Just completed by DC Dr G. G C. C Abbott of or the Smithsonian mat mat- tute Abbott said today that during during during dur dur- ing two hundred years of observations observations observations by scientists the sun has haa loafed that way every eleven years To compensate for tor Its laziness ss however it usually returns to Its duty of warming its satellites with renewed vigor culminating in a period of the maxim maximum m number of ot sun spots and this is the expectation expectation expectation tion of Abbott and his colleagues Neither Abbott nor his assistants would comment upon the relation between the suns sun's rest period and the capricious weather experienced by the United States this winter and spring