[Rarebooks] FS: Man-Made Climate Change in 1885

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

"On the Influence of Forests Upon Climate"

by Dr. A. W(V)oeikof(v), an offprint from the Quarterly Journal of the
Royal Meteorological Society, Vol.XII, No.57. January, 1886. Forwarded and
translated from ‘Petermann’s Mittheilungen’, 1885, by J.S. Harding.

Dr. Alexander Ivanovich Voeikov [1842-1916] was a pioneering Russian
climatologist. The oldest meteorological institution in Russia, the Main
Geophysical Observatory in St. Petersburg, is named in his honor. In this
article he argued that forests are responsible for their own climate being
cooler and more humid than in surrounding open lands (instead of forests
simply growing where it is cooler and more humid), and also that forests
change the climate in the areas surrounding them. This, he concluded,
would make re-forestation possible in arid areas, and could also result in
cleared areas becoming more arid than they were previously. An interesting
19th century article touching on Man’s ability to cause climate change. An
uncommon offprint.

This is a softcover. 6”x10”, pp.26-36; light wear; several small stamps;
evidently once bound into a larger volume, with the spine reinforced with
sewn canvas [see scan]; folded; better than it sounds.   $50.00

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