SEASONS PAST AND PRESENT
“Are the seasons changing? ” asked Mr James J. Cash in a recent broadcast talk. "That is a question that everybody’s always asking. People grumble that the summers and winters to-day are not what they used to be when tjiey were young—long summers of heat and sunshine and winters with plenty of frost and snow. But I think I’m right in saying that we’ve had numerous very seasonable summers and winters of this kind during the past 20 years or so. All the expert evidence I can fined proves that the English climate
has not changed in any appreciable;'; way over hundreds of years; arid, there are plenty of old and reliablerecords to examine. I find tradi-j tional seasons of extreme summer heat and of winter’s cold side by side, as it were, with years just as contrary—summers cold and wet. and windy, and winters warm and’ mild and rainy. And this has gone," on over many centuries. I read ; frequently of ‘heavy-timed’ years, ; ‘very calamitous years,’ ‘laborious’' years, in those old times and of sum-' mere and winters quite out of joint, just, as we find them to-day.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23631, 15 October 1938, Page 17
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