Our rising Ocean

From the January 1949 edition of Modern Mechanix:

Will Polar Waves Swamp America?
Farmer Williams was plowing the field back of his red barn in central Indiana shortly before noon. A few more furrows and he could quit for lunch. Then above the regular clatter of his tractor he heard an ominous, ground-shaking rumble. He turned on the tractor seat� and saw a towering mountain of water roaring down upon him.

The sweeping wave brought death to Farmer Williams and churned the Mid-West into an inland sea.

This may be the doom of America and our world as we know it. And that doom may crash upon us at any moment, according to Hugh Auchincloss Brown, 69-year-old electrical engineer of Douglaston, Long Island.

Engineer Brown firmly predicts this battered old earth is long overdue for another great flood unless we can put off our Day of Doom with a $10,000,000 atomic project.

Brown declares we must blast the Antarctic icecap with atom bombs!

Of course, anyone who has watched a glass of ice-water melt will know that this theory is pure bunk. Still, it is a cautionary tale of how preposterous ideas can become culturally accepted. I wonder what current "climate science" will look like in 25 years. If you want to read more of this lunacy, check out Cataclysms Of The Earth By Hugh Auchincloss Brown. A short biography can be found here: Hugh Auchincloss Brown