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Volcanos, enthusiastically cited by more imaginative geologists as the cause of glaciers, can actually produce enough dust to blot out much of the sun's radiant heat. Krakatoa's ash, sent sky high in 1833, cut 10 percent of France's sunlight for three years. But reductions in radiant energy cool the equator more than the poles, cutting temperature differences which create storms. Only an increase of the sun's general heating power will yield more snow, the sole food of glaciers. Yet if the sun's heat increases too much, the glaciers will melt...
...Charley Olnutt, the gin-oriented riverboat captain, Bogart is immense--not the same old "I wouldn't walk ten feet to watch Krakatoa explode" Bogart, but a new man, an epic slob. He revels in his new role, his eight day beard, dirty tennis shoes, and habit of drinking gin and river water for refreshment. And best of all, when he gets in a clinch with Hepburn, you can just barely detect him laughing at the whole concept of Charley Olnutt, the poor sinner reclaimed by patriotism and selfless love...
...military techniques are where you find them. Last week Drs. M. Ewing and Frank Press, Columbia geophysicists, told how they discovered a practical method of measuring from an airplane the thickness of Arctic ice. They started by studying Krakatoa Volcano, near Java, which had its most famous explosion almost 70 years...
Ewing and Press had long believed that disturbances in the air cause waves in the land and sea. In search of proof, they selected as a "laboratory test" the 1883 Krakatoa eruption, whose mighty bang sent air waves seven times round the earth. One chapter in a fat report by Britain's Royal Society recorded the progress of the volcano's air wave. Another clocked the sea wave, which swept across the Indian Ocean and was measured by tidal gauges as far away as Britain. Oddly enough, both waves were reported in many distant places, including the English...
Tomboro on Sumbawa, second island east of Bali, is at the end of its 131-year cycle. In 1815 Tomboro produced one of the greatest explosions of all history. Dr. Jaggar thinks that it was greater than Krakatoa...