Cause and Effect.
The Cold Sumaier Explained' 1 ' A
At a ■meeting of the* Philosophical lustitate/gh>istch.uEph, last Thursday : uighfc a'Mr X Kirigwood gave an iu^ teiesting, explanation /o# thw iip^ryfapf jSets. He attributes them 'to ihe pi^f 1 senca in/iher upper, air o£ dnjst f^ona the^ Krakatoa eruption;: A Germau "pro" fessor estimates this- to have been : thrown! 140, iifiles highr-fatfi^qve the atmospheric currents, though these are 50,000 ft hight at the-equator. Tliis of KFakatoa was? probably the' \ greater" explosion thatohacl occurred since the appearnce of man-on the earth. The cloud of dust ejectedjiTOiaso dense jthstt to it mugt; m Ms opinion, be attributed thp present cold sumoier, for it wou d intercept asi f inuch»/(h'eat as ; Sa -ilike i quantity of a<jii^ou|jXa^pHr.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 101, 25 March 1884, Page 2
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