Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Atomic dust clouds may have caused the recurrent ice ages in the past, Donald H. Menzel, Professor of Astrophysics, reported Saturday to the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences...
...past four ice ages in a million years have not been accounted for by anything happening on the earth. Furthermore the varying output of heat from the sun could not have caused the great terrestrial temperature changes...
...long-range radiation rays, says Menzel, which usually fly off from the earth, would be stopped by the cloud and retained. Thus the weather would be come warmer, the proper weather for an ice age. More water would evaporate from the earth and fall at the poles as snow, compress itself into ice and start moving as a glacier...
...claims Menzel, the weather would have to be just right. If it became too cold, then too little snow would fall to form ice. On the other hand, a spell of unusually warm weather would melt the ice packs...
...from causing rain, the dry ice often produced the opposite effect: it made clouds dissipate. In rolling officialese, the Air Force and Weather Bureau expressed their joint disillusionment: "The responsible scientists of the project interpret the long series of experiments to mean that recently proposed artificial weather modification processes are of relatively little economic importance...