ARE WE HEADED FOR NEW ICE AGE?
SCIENTISTS STUDY #CLIMATECHANGE
By DELOS SMITH
He pours smoke into the atmos-and snow accumulates in the
United Press Science Editor
phere and cuts down forests. But higher latitudes, increa ing the volcanic action flings mountain temperature
NEW YORK. - (UP) - For
contrasts on the
chains up from the earth's sur- earth's surface.
about 40 years now the temper-
face and these change the routing
ate and arctic regions have been
"Concurrently with the heav-
getting warmer. What it means
of air currents. Even more im- ier shows of winter, there must portant is that the strength of be heavier cloudiness and cooler
could be very important to us.
But a2 scientists, learned in the
the radiations of the sun is not temperatures in the summers so
many complexities which go in- hotter or cooler for hundreds and
constant. Those radiations can be that the snow will not melt away.
to climate changes, can't be sure of just what it does mean.
thousands of years.
"We keep this machinery going for a century or two. Glaciers
Dr.
Harlow Shapley, famous
Speaking of the possibility that will begin to appear at favored
Harvard astronomer, one of the we are living in the first mo- locations in higher middle lati-
22 and their spokesman, said it
ments (if a moment is considered tudes and. at least in the tem-
might well be the first beginnings
to be a year or a decade) of a perate and
Arctic zones,
the
of a new Ice Age. On the other
nqw Ice Age, Shapley said science earth's surface will cool. was beginning to understand how
hand, it could be the continuing
"But there must also be high
retreat of the last one.
Ice Ages came about. He out- land if glaciers are to prosper lined the steps, thus:
But it might be that the upper
and leave records for deciphering
atmosphere is, at last,
getting
"First, the sun must get hotter by future glaciologists. From the
clear of the dust which gigantic
and radiate more energy than at Silurian, Mississippian, and Jui-
volcanic eruptions of the past 100
present into the earth's atmos- assic periods, when the land was phere.
years hurled into it.
and especially into the low, we have no glacial records."
water bodies on its surface. A
To get your teeth into how and
Thus.
the present changing
few degrees rise in temperature climate
why climate changes you have to will suffice.
"may be an early stage,
consult many sciences, such as
GLACIERS AND HIGH LAND
in that increased solar radiation presages enhanced
evaporation
physics, astronomy, biology, me-
"The
increased evaporation and precipitation, which in turn
teorology, oceanography, palae-
and atmospheric circulation go along with the beginning of a
ontology.
geology.
geography, leads to increased precipitation, new ice age."
and demography. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences assembled the 22 scholars versed
LEGAL NOTICE
in these fields, for a two-day attempt at hard and fast answers.
BOOK ON CLIMATE
But those kinds of answers are rarely to be had, and certainly are not presently available as regards climate changes. Which isn't to say that much knowledge doesn't exist.
Contrarily.
the
knowledge chewed over
during
the two days made a 310-page book.
"Climatic Change.
" which
Shapley edited and which Harvard University Press is pub-lishing.
The 22 recognized man as a climate changer-but a puny one.
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