Clarence and Richmond Examiner (Grafton, NSW : 1889 - 1915), Thursday 5 October 1911, page 7


Wireless Changing Climate

That the far-famed climate of Southern California is undergoing a change that will ultimately cause a complete reversal of form is the belief of climate experts who have been making a study of con-ditions on the Pacific Coast. These ex-

perts declare the change is being caused by jolts of electric currents loose in the atmosphere. This theory was recently expressed by Sir Oliver Lodge, the fam-ous English scientist. In this theory he is joined by such men as Professor Douglass, of the University of Arizona, and Dr. William J. S. Lockyear, the famous English astronomer. Following that statement several Government Weather Bureau sharps have been de-tailed to look into the matter. Ac-cording to the theory advanced by Sir Oliver, the uncounted currents of electri-city passing through the air from hun-dreds of wireless stations all along the Pacific Coast, as well as the influence of the electricity that leaks into the air from the thousands of wires used for domestic and industrial purposes on the coast, are slowly creating new atmos-pheric conditions.