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Weather, climate and the land

A. K. Chakravarti
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation November 1984, 39 (6) 350-353;
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NOWADAYS, people everywhere express concern about the unusual weather in different parts of the world. During the last decade or so, there was frequent drought in the African Sahel, western United States, and parts of the Soviet Union, China, and India. Simultaneously, there were recurring winter cold spells in the eastern United States and heavy rains accompanied by floods in China, southern India, and South Africa. All of this has prompted scientists and others to wonder if the world's climate is changing (3, 34).

Climatologists hold different and often opposing views about the extreme weather variability and climatic change (21). Some research indicates a global cooling trend, with the possible return to an ice age (1, 19, 31). Other research describes a warming trend, including the onset of the carbon dioxide-induced “greenhouse” effect (2, 11, 20).

There certainly is no unanimous view about these matters, and no trend has been established about the frequent occurrence …

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  • A. K. Chakravarti is a professor in the Department of Geography, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, S7N OWO.

  • Copyright 1984 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society

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Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
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November/December 1984
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