THE ICE AGE COMETH.
Radio Times Scotland (1974/11/12-16).
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THE WEATHER MACHINE.
A global investigation into the Earth's changing climate.
Written by Nigel Calder.
Introduced by Magnus Magnusson.
Narrated by Eric Porter.
1974 has been a bad year for weather, with disastrous floods and droughts, a failed monsoon in India...
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unprecedented tornadoes in America, a dismal summer and unseasonable gales in Europe.
The machine that makes the world's weather is changing gear - and the shift is downward, against mankind.
The smallest change means loss of life in flood or drought, and the wholesale...
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destruction of crops.
For us, the price of food goes up; for millions more, it brings hunger or starvation.
In the background looms the threat of ICE, and the obliteration of northern lands including Britain.
The next ICE-AGE is already overdue.
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The trends are revealed in cores drilled from deep beneath the Greenland ice-cap, by instruments high on a volcano in Hawaii, acting as a breathalyser for our planet; by ships that probe the depths of the sea for clues to the weather of 18'000 years ago; and by...
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satellites that look down from space to encompass the storms of half a world.
In the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, we see the beginnings of a concerted global assault on the problems of our ever-changing climate.
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Perhaps just in time, the nations are uniting in the WAR AGAINST BAD WEATHER.