TIMELY WARNING!
DROUGHT PREDICTED IN 2000. (U.P.A. by Elec. Teh Copyright) NEW YORK, Dec. 2,6. At Cambridge, Mr. H, W. Clough, a New York scientist, speaking to the American Association of Science, predicted that the remainder of the twentieth century would be unusually warm and dry. with a brief period of cooler and wetter weather around 1950-55, followed by a disastrous drought at the turn of the century. He based his predictions on the fact that “four great weather cycles controlled by the sun will synchronise around the year 2000.” He saidjhat in time areas near deserts were likely to suffer prolonged aridity, necessitating wholesale migration.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12140, 30 December 1933, Page 5
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