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Climatic Changes. Their Nature and Causes

Name: Climatic Changes. Their Nature and Causes
Author: Ellsworth Huntington

Ellsworth Huntington

Read by Leon Harvey · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

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Preface. (7:27)
I. The Uniformity of Climate (27:03)
II. The Variability of Climate (30:17)
III. Hypothesis of Climate Change (32:19)
IV. The Solar Cyclonic Hypothesis (19:23)
V. The Climate of History (58:38)
VI. The Climatic Stress of the Fourteenth Century (22:54)
VII. Glaciation According to the Solar Cyclonic Hypothesis (34:07)
VIII. Some Problems of Glacial Periods (42:29)
IX. The Origin of Loess (20:17)
X. Causes of Mild Geological Climates (38:44)
XI. Terrestrial Causes of Climatic Changes (43:09)
XII. Post-Glacial Crustal Movements and Climatic Changes (15:03)
XIII. The Changing Composition of Oceans and Atmosphere (33:06)
XIV. The Effect of Other Bodies on the Sun (38:07)
XV. The Sun's Journey through Space (29:47)
XVI. The Earth's Crust and the Sun (38:45)
Conclusion (10:17)