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C. E. P. (Charles Ernest Pelham) Brooks
1888–1957
Remembered as a pioneering British meteorologist and climatologist, he helped bring deep-time climate history to a wider audience. His writing connected weather, ice ages, and long-term climate change in a way that was both rigorous and readable.
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The evolution of climate
by C. E. P. (Charles Ernest Pelham) Brooks
About the author
Charles Ernest Pelham Brooks was a British meteorologist and climatologist whose career was closely tied to the Meteorological Office. Contemporary obituaries described him as a distinguished specialist in climatic change, especially on historical and geological timescales, and noted that he also served for many years as an editor of Meteorological Magazine.
He is best known for Climate Through the Ages, first published in 1926 and later revised, a major work that explored Earth’s climatic history and theories of the ice ages. He also wrote The English Climate, published in 1954, which was praised as an informative and pleasantly written book.
Brooks died at Ferring, Sussex, on December 14, 1957, aged 69. Later tributes emphasized both the scale of his output and his importance to early climatology, especially his work on ice sheets, ice ages, and the long story of changing climate.