Show ALL WEATHER IS PRODUCED BY SUN SCIENTIST SAYS dr harlan T stetson of the massachusetts institute of technology writing in scientific american describes some of the attempts that are being made by scientists of repute to reach a dependable pen dable kind of long range weather predication based on the well known fact that sun spots and the heat of the sun increase and d decrease e crease in rhythms lasting an average of about eleven years one certain thing he says is that all the weather on the earth is produced by the sun it is th the e sun shining over the tropical region which heats the large masses of the air in the region of the earths equator these masses of warm air ascend while the cold air from the polar region spreads toward the equator due to the rotation of the earth whirlpools and eddies are formed in these air currents which bring our variable weather hence scientists who wish to find ways to predict the weather study the sun and its periodic increases of spots but the problem is far from simple because the skein of local conditions that af feet the weather that is governed by the sun is so tangled among the many who have conducted investigations dr G C abbot the head of the smithsonian institution and IT helen clayton of massachusetts have been outstanding in results obtained t a inca and in the confidence with science regards their efforts dr abbot says sunspot studies indicate the united states I 1 is n nearing ar indi ng the close of a period of considerable a ble drouth which will bill not return until 1975 2975 mr clayton M made a prediction for temperatures from 1920 to 1940 which has proved remarkable thus far |