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Pollack's interest in condensation nuclei, cloud formation and atmospheric physics led him to make predictions about atmospheric warming. In the 1950s he gave a statutory public lecture at DIAS on global warming–even saying that someday "bananas will grow in Dublin."
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and automated tabulation for analyzing meteorological data. One aspect of this was searching for periodicities and trends in noisy data sets. He spent a lot of time and energy using mechanical calculators and tables to assist in
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who was a professor there. When Pollak sent a circular in August 1911 to look for astronomers who had observed the light deflection effect predicted by
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Aerosol Climatology Measurements with a Nolan-Pollak Counter
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