"Ice Ages", in Nature, (Supplement).

George Simpson ++A Significant Paper in the relatively early history of climate change.++

Publication Date: 1938

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++A Significant Paper in the relatively early history of climate change.++ George Simpson, "Ice Ages", in Nature, (Supplement), vol 141, no. 3570, 2 April 1938, pp 591-598 in the full weekly issue of pp 571-620. This is the full weekly issue extracted from a larger bound volume. GOOD copy. [++] Abstract: "It is now common knowledge that there have been great changes in climate during past ages. The geological evidence is perfectly clear that luxuriant vegetation once grew in Greenland and Spitsbergen, where now the hardiest forms of vegetable life can barely exist on the small areas free from permanent ice. At the other extreme, there is no doubt whatever that at one period a great ice sheet covered the plains of Central India and discharged icebergs into a sea covering what is now the Punjab and North-West India one of the hottest parts of the earth." "In a paper entitled "Ice Ages" [the paper offered here] Sir George Simpson argues, in opposition to the hypothesis that a decrease of radiation would produce an ice age, that, on the contrary, an increase of radiation would produce such an effect. Simpson explains this paradox clearly in a few printed pages. It seems that Simpson did not know of a brief essay by the present writer," who advanced a similar opinion. The writer, however, finds the ice age question rather more complicated, and concludes that ice ages may by no means be set parallel with pluvial ages, and furthermore, that ice ages are possible by warming as well as by cooling. H. H. Clayton also made the same suggestion.'' From this it follows that a simultaneous ice age for the whole earth is not admissible."--Walter Knoche, "The Ice Age Problem" in Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 99 #22, 1941.

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• Title: "Ice Ages", in Nature, (Supplement).
• Publication Date: 1938
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 1 pound
• Seller catalogs:
  • Meteorology & Climate