Global Warming
Disaster Alert
The Washington Post:
The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer
and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a
report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulafft, at Bergen , Norway.
Reports from fishermen, seal hunters, and explorers all
point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of
temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely
any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes.
Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulfstream
still very warm. Great masses of ice
have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while
at many points well known glaciers have
entirely disappeared.
Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring
and smelts which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered
in the old seal fishing grounds. Within a few years it is predicted that due to
the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.
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Oh ... I apologize; I neglected to mention that this report was
from November 2, 1922, as reported by the AP and published in The Washington
Post -
89 years ago.
89 years ago.
Bob West
