ABSTRACT
This chapter is taken from an invited paper given at the 21st Inter-University Geological Congress at Birmingham on 2–4 January 1974 and published under the title ‘Changes of climate: the perspective of time-scales and a particular examination of recent changes’ in the book of that Congress, in honour of Professor L. J. Wills and F. W. Shotton FRS, Ice Ages: Ancient and Modern, A. E. Wright and F. Moseley (eds), Liverpool, Seel House Press, 1975.
In the excerpt printed here a few details of the text have been updated, whereas most of the section on recent changes has been omitted to avoid duplication of the content of other chapters of the present book.
