NO IMMEDIATE ALARM.
44 Are we in the beginning of a new ice age?” is the startling question asked by a scientist. 44 It is an ascertained fact that the temperature of Europe has been below the average ever since 1885, and it has been suggested that this fact mav indicate that a period of cold, possibly a real glacial epoch, has begun to set in. Certainly an ice age reigns in Greenland. That strange continent is buried beneath an enormous blanket of ice, which is pushing its way down into the sea all round the coast. Vast fragments of this ice are broken off and float away in the form of icebergs. J3ut it is comforting to feel that there is no immediate alarm. Glacial epochs approach so slowly that thousands of years must pass before man need seek a more genial planet.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 301, 19 December 1931, Page 26 (Supplement)
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144NO IMMEDIATE ALARM. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 301, 19 December 1931, Page 26 (Supplement)
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