AN ENGINEER'S DREAM.
A scheme to mnko Siberia a summer resort, start ic© famines in Labrador, give Scotland an all-day summer with a temperature like Japan's, change the climate of the Atlantic coast to one like that of Southern California, and melt all the iee on and around tho North Pole and open it to gardening is outlined in tho New York Herald." It is the work of Mr C. L. Riker, a Brooklyn engineer, who estimates that it would cost £38,000,000. All that is needed, ho states, is to build n jetty about twenty miles long across the shoals extending eastward from Newfoundland, near Cape Race. This would stop the Labrador Current from running right into the Gulf Stream.
If such a jetty wero built the Labrador Current, coming down from the Arctic, would he turned eastward and would he sunk so far when the Gulf Stream met it that the hitter's warm, blue river oi tho ocean would pass over the great cold river from tho North Pole. The warm Gulf Stream would continue in almost undiminished volume to the northward, and the Labrador Current would run a mile deep through the great depths of the Atlantic, making the torrid zone about tho equator cooler, while the Gulf Stream would requiro only three months to melt every inch of ice around the Pole. Mr Riker is said to be a distinguished engineer, but surely liis scheme is a wild, fantastic dream.
AN ENGINEER'S DREAM.
Star (Christchurch), Issue 10631, 29 November 1912, Page 2
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