| Show PREDICTS NEW ICE AGE FOR AMERICA savant says it will wili CO come me in in aars ears 4 ap london another ice age in which the cap will creeo creep afaf fa down into europe and north america Is coming anten in tea thou thousand years or sosaya so bays dr G GC a simpson Simp sonT director of the british meteorological al lo office illee tt it will be followed by a warm era when wh 6 tl the si conditions in which w lit c h monstrous sou rians splashed un der ili giant terns ferns in what Is now the united states will return Ds deserting erting the rule which he enforces in his own office that weather forecasts casti must be limited to tile the next 43 hours doctor simpson told what it would be like on the earth hundreds hundred 3 of thousands of years ahead ne he based his prophecies on a theory of solar changes chances which he his has late lashown ly shown to be confirmed by the story of world weather in a the period cov cor ered by the last four ice fee ancs a es suns heat changes change it Is the suns heat beat lie he says that am changes ages A complete cycle of change takes anything from to 1000 MX 0 years and the difference in radl atlon represents a range of about 40 per cent we are at present approaching a minimum lie he said ind and oui our climate ai Is cold and dry all the evidence points to the conclusion that abee the t i rth will continue to net get coldir colder nod and drier for a long time yet put IM I 1 even after the suns radiation has begun to increase again he explained pla ined europe would have to go through another ice fee age before we once again got really warm weather with temperatures from frani five t to bende tende ten degrees I 1 V higher ahna than they 4 are now bild a nd no ill doutt doubt another of 0 semi seil semitropical tropical 41 r r life y v an lo increase crease insala in solar radiation badlat ion he said would mean that there was mope moe difference in temperature between the equator and the poles there would therefore be stron stronger er winds more cloud and more rain and snow at first lie explained the increased precipitation would result in greater accumulation of snow and the increased cloud would prevent summer melting the polar ice caps and the ice fields on mountains would extend spreading into lower latitudes and down to lower heights warm period to follow that would bring the next ice age to its maximum tens perhaps hundreds of thousands of years hence then as the suns stills radiation further increased in streng strength th the ice would be first checked in its advance and finally melted there would follow the warmest time of all a warm wet interglacial period with halt half as much cloud again as there is now next as the suns radiation began i to decrease in intensity again the bame sea of changes would be reversed and after another ice age we would drift slowly back to present conditions dit ions ve should have lind had two ice ages in tile the course course of tile the one solar evele while in the tropics there would 1 1 have been a single wet period corresponding sti sp with the wet interglacial period nearer the poles AN when lien the next nest ice a ages es are on the atlantic will be a iauch less healthy liace II 11 for or slips than will the pacific it will be largely tilled up with ice because arctic ice lins has a much greater tendency at this to drift down by that hut route than into the pacific |
