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Civilisation versus the giant, winged lizards

‘Modern man is a forest butcher’, warned the pioneering science journalist Hugh McKay in 1923. ‘He is also an oil-spendthrift and a coal waster’, McKay continued, ‘recklessly spending his capital of fuel… with never a thought of the tomorrow when he will stand shivering and motionless in the middle of a coal-less, oil-less, treeless, steel-less [...]

Posted 14 November 2006 † Tim Sherratt § articles and book chapters § weather ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Human elements

‘I say emphatically that the climate has changed’, Henry Hodgson told the Argus in 1928. The experience of seventy-eight years brooked no denial, summers were milder, and thunderstorms were fewer. ‘It is no use telling me that weather bureau statistics do not bear this out’, he added defiantly. ‘You can do anything with statistics, but [...]

Posted 01 January 2005 † Tim Sherratt § articles and book chapters § weather ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , ,