Real Climate Records

In his presidential address in the geographical section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Lord Meston predicted that just as a vast ice cap once covered a large part of the now civilised world, so will the present dwelling places of man be buried beneath an immense coat of ice.

No anxiety need be felt by the present generation or for countless generations to come, for the new ice age envisager will not come, said Lord Meston, for many hundreds of thousands of years.

The prediction was in terms of geography, for, as Lord Meston pointed out, it is only a “fraction of time” since Britain and a great part of Europe was buried deep under an ice cap such as now covers the Antarctic regions. The constant geographical changes which had always been in progress were, he contended, worthy of study, and for that reason geography should occupy a proper place in any education system.