Why Shanghai Area Suffers from Drought Despite Many Creeks Explained are as equally varied in short periods as in the eleven year cycle expounded bby Brueckner. On top of all this, the earth's atmosphere, with its fortunate Storage qualities, evens things up, and paradoxically explains why, when the Sun is most active, it is coldest! The added heat adds io the swiftness of Shanghai., How to relieve farmers and others sfiering from the drought has within Fecent months become almost as. pressing a problem locally as was that of relieving flood victims in 1931. Yet both occurrences, disastrous to the farmer in particular, are paradoxically due to identical eduses—and neither would exist in all probability if the master geographer who planned the earth had included a bit of symmetry in his scheme, Had strips of water alternated: in regular precision with strips of land, then freaks of weather might have been eliminated. How~ ever, after all, a vast range of scenic beauties has resulted from the uneven Aistribution of land and water over the face of the earth, and Shanghs a tidal basin, as i is, is a victim of weather freaks along with the rest of the world.
Weather pranks and their causes, along with a clear exposition exactly why there is a lack of water this particular neighbourhood despite ils myriad creeks and its regularly rising and falling tides, reaching far up the river, were presented the other day by Dr. H. Chatley of the Whangpoo Conservation Board.
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