[Rarebooks] FS:1886 Man-Made Climate Change Study

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: "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.

DISCUSSION: 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.

DESCRIPTION: This is a softcover. 6”x10”, pp.26-36.

CONDITION NOTES: 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.

PRICE: $50.00

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