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This spreading envelope of gas around the earth, says Johns Hopkins Physicist Gilbert N. Plass, serves as a great greenhouse. Transparent to the radiant heat from the sun, it blocks the longer wave lengths of heat that bounce back from the earth. At its present rate of increase, says Plass, the CO ² in the atmosphere will raise the earth's average temperature 1.5° Fahrenheit every 100 years...
After thousands of years, says Professor Plass, plants and the slow-moving seas will absorb most of the excess CO ² . But for centuries to come, if man's industrial growth continues, the earth's climate will continue to grow warmer...
Langdon P. Marvin, Jr., Eliot, Government; Jere J. Nelson, Winthrop, Chemistry; Albert J. Novak, Leverett, Physics; Gilbert N. Plass, Winthrop, Physics; G. Robert Stauge, Lowell, History and Literature; M. Woodrew P. Strandberg, Dunster, Engineering Sciences; Dwight D. Taylor, Lowell, English; Emmanuel G. Weiss, Dunster, Government; and Richard B. Wolf, Dunster, Economics...
...Marx, New York; Gilbert N. Plass, Cleveland Heights, Ohio; Melvin Pollard, Dorchester; James B. Tobias, Fremont, Ohio; and Emanuel G. Weiss, Elkins Park...
...same meeting, Max D. Gaebler '41 was elected president of the club for the coming year. Gilbert N. Plass '41 was elected vice-president and Richardson L. Spofford '41 was named secretary-treasurer...