ANOTHER ICE ACE COMING.
Speak no more of the glacial epoch as 80,000 years agone. The glacial epoch 1% ahead. Sir Robert Bull says that the next ice age is due in 200,000 years. In the course of l®ng periods the earth’s orbit round the sun changes from being nearly a circle, as it is now, to a long ellipse or oval, and in tile lust case tne summer may be only 100 da.\s long, while the winter lasts 199 days. There is a short hot summer, followed by a long, excessively cold winter, so that more ice is formed in tha cold than can be incited in the warm season. On purely astronomical grounds, even if geologists had not discovered the ice ages from the records of the globe’s surface, astronomers would have demonstrated that ice ages must have happened. When the next chilly epoch arrives posterity may see all Northern Europe under an ice-cap that will o’ertop the highest mountains and last for many thousands of years.
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Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 22, 8 January 1907, Page 2
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169ANOTHER ICE ACE COMING. Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 22, 8 January 1907, Page 2
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