ICE AGE’S RETURN?

Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1935, Page 6 (Supplement)

ICE AGE’S RETURN?

FUTURE POWER OVER WEATHER. MAMMOTHS WALKED BY THAMES. It is possible that Scotland may once more be hidden by a cap of ice, but Scotland need not be afraid; it will not be for many thousands of years to come. Dr. W. E. Swinton, indeed, in a recent lecture on the Ice Age, held out hopes that man will have made such progress by the time the next Ice Age is due that he will be able to control those atmospheric and geographical conditions which were its cause. Man’s improved chemical knowledge and manufacturing facilities, he thinks, might enable him to have control over the weather. There were several Ice Ages over regions which flow enjoy a temperate climate. In very early periods of the Earth’s history there were Ice Ages in India, South Africa and Australia, but these occurred long .before man came. We know from fossil remains of the mammoth, the reindeer, and the muskox in the Thames Valley that Arctic conditions prevailed in England .in the early years of our present geological period, the Pleistocene, when an icecap covered all Scotland and Wales and the northern half of England. It came and went as the distribution of rainfall and snowfall varied over the Earth.