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Show Right and Wrong. Referring to Mr. Harry Matthew White's proposition in Scribncr's that the Gulf stream has no effect upon the climate of the British Isles and Northern Europe, that ocean currents cur-rents do not affect the blimate of any country; coun-try; that the warmth enjoyed in Northern Europe is entirely due to aerial currents circulating cir-culating over the entire Atlantic basin, it is sufficient to explain, touching the first proposition, pro-position, that it was more ably discussed twenty-five years ago, and touching the second, it is not borne out by the experience of the men who have been studying air currents cur-rents from the time of Professor Maury down to the present day. In the slang of the street his dissertation is mostly "hot air." It is true no doubt that the Gulf Stream does not directly affect the climate of Ireland, Ire-land, but the air current that follows along its course all the way from the Gulf becomes warm, and that air current spreading over the land does the work. |