ABSTRACT
This book is a study of the development and history of climate. It is intended to meet a variety of needs. Students of meteorology and climatology and workers in other disciplines concerned with the impact of climate upon human affairs, upon the animal and plant kingdoms and upon the surface of the Earth itself, will find in it an account of what makes climates what they are, and of how they vary and have varied. Practical men — farmers, engineers, industrialists and especially those concerned with long-term economic development and planning — may gain from it a new appreciation of things to be allowed for where climate affects, or might come to affect, their schemes.
