Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-01-20 | Page 13 | Climate Changes

I Climate Changes I j jI 0 I HE climate of pi the United States States is chang chang- THE I-THE ing So claims Elias EHas B. B Dunn former weather observer for r New York City Dunn says this tills change has been slowly but surely taking place since about 1895 Old settlers m in n v various n us parts of the country frequently I make ke the same claim epe especially in the Northern Northern North- North i ern em ern and nd Eastern states They have in mind mind I the very deep snows of former generations snows s so deep that horses horses' pulled sleighs right fright over over the tops of fences with drifts ten tenI I feet deep or more I Weather bureau officials in Washington D. D C. C have hav disagreed They say that climate merely moves in cycles very very warm for for a awhile 1 while then very hot They rhey check up old I records and say that if you take the weather eather I average over periods of ten years each the tie I average tempe temperature of these periods or cycles I has never varied more than a Q few degrees since the first official weather observations were made Dunn n nevertheless is 15 lining u up with the theold theold theold old s settlers settlers' He is positive that the climate is changing and he blames the big irrigation projects in the West est About acres are v no This m means ans a tremendous amount of moisture dammed up i in what otherwise would be dry country I W Water ter in a dry country naturally evaporates evaporate quickly This Tillis evaporation changes the moisture moisture moisture mois mois- ture of the he air and affecting the barometric condition generates storms which h hare are not only local but go traveling So Dunn reasons we i have cloudbursts floods and general freaks of pf weather Dammed up water evaporates fast in a adry adry adry dry climate te In the Ohio v valley Iley evaporation is forty inches incites a year It is is over I 00 inches a year in New Mexico Arizona and southeastern southeastern southeastern south south- eastern O California The old settlers often advance the theory that climate has been changed by the destruction of forests which formerly stored up a lot of moisture and kept kep the snow from melting quickly