Word: icing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group of teenage tipplers, apparently in search of a truly different type of drink, invaded the Harvard Faculty Club and the Cambridge Elks Club this week. They made off with whiskey and ice cream, as well as a small amount of cash, and appeared on the verge of creating a new drink, the whiskey float...
...present time (an interglacial period), the Arctic Ocean is mostly covered with ice. Very little water evaporates from it, and so the lands around it get little precipitation, and the glaciers in Greenland and northern Canada do not grow. But if the Arctic Ocean were ice-free because of more warm water flowing into it from the south, a great deal of snow would fall on the cold northern interiors of Eurasia and North America, and not all of it would melt in summer. Glaciers would grow and march southward toward New York and Paris...
...Greenland. Deprived of warmth, the Arctic Ocean would freeze over. The great continental glaciers, deprived of snowfall, would waste slowly away, restoring their water to the oceans. Then the level of the sea would rise. Warm Atlantic water would flow freely into the Arctic Ocean, melting its surface ice. Snow would increase on the northern land areas.The continental glaciers would start growing again, beginning another cycle...
Ewing and Donn believe that such cycles have already happened several times. They support their theory by citing cores of ocean-bottom mud that indicate warming of the Atlantic surface water about 11,000 years ago. This, they think, was when the last ice age lowered sea level so much that the Arctic Ocean, cut off from the Atlantic, froze over. The glaciers, then at maximum, began to retreat...
Unzoned Earth. During long geological ages before the Pleistocene, ice ages were unknown, and the earth had a fairly even climate all over. Drs. Ewing and Donn believe that this "unzoned" climate was possible because the earth's poles were then in large water areas. There was no nearby land for ice to accumulate on, and the water cooled by each winter season was soon dissipated by ocean currents. Far back, in the Permian age, there was another glacial period. Drs. Ewing and Donn suspect that the Permian poles moved to land areas and covered them with ice...