Hugh Auchincloss Brown

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Hugh Auchincloss Brown (23 December 1879 – 19 November 1975) was an electrical engineer best known for advancing a theory of catastropic pole shift. Brown claimed that massive accumulation of ice at the poles caused recurring tipping of the axis in cycles of approximately 4000-7500 years. Brown argued that because the earth wobbles on the axis and the crust slides on the mantle, a shift was demonstrably imminent, and suggested the use of nuclear explosions to break-up the ice to forestall catastrophe.

[edit] Works

• Popular awakening concerning the impending flood (privately printed 1948)
• Cataclysms of the Earth (1967)

[edit] External links

• “Can the Earth Capsize?” Time 13 September 1948
• Robert Plumb. "Engineer Says Vast Polar Ice Cap Could Tip Earth Over at Any Time", The New York Times, August 30, 1948, p. 19. 
• "Economist Disputes Theory That Polar Ice Cap Perils Earth", The New York Times, August 31, 1948. 
• "Antarctic Doomsday, An Editorial", New York Times, September 1, 1948.