Author: Lamb, H. H.
Title: Climate: Present, Past and Future. Vol. 1: Fundamentals and climate now
Description: London, Methuen & Co., 1972. Cloth. 613 pp. Index. First of two volumes. l Hubert Horace Lamb (1913 - 1997 was an English climatologist. He was known as “the ice man” because of his view that global cooling would lead to a future glacial period within 10,000 years with some abrupt cooling phases occurring "within one to two thousand years". However he also acknowledged that global warming could have serious effects within a century. His warnings of damage to agriculture, ice caps melting, and cities being flooded caught widespread attention and helped to shape public opinion.

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