The Coming Ice Age | Harper's Magazine

The Coming Ice Age | Harper's Magazine
"ARTICLE — From the September 1958 issue
A true scientific detective story-By Betty Friedan
How a rising of the ocean waters may flood most of our port cities within the foreseeable future — and why it will be followed by the growth of a vast glacier which may eventually cover much of Europe and North America.
THIS is the story of two scientists, who started five years ago — with a single radiocarbon clue from the ocean bottom and a wild hunch — to track down one of the earth’s great unsolved mysteries: What caused the ancient ice ages? 
Their search led over many continents and seas, to drowned rivers and abandoned mountain caves, into far-removed branches of science.
It took them down through recorded history, from the stone tablets of primitive man to contemporary newspaper headlines..."
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