This is a nice little read - be sure to pass it on!
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 Consulate, 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 gulf stream 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Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and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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I neglected to mention that this report was from November 2, 1922, as
reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post - 94 years
ago.
What date was this published? What page number? I want to get this.
Man, you had me worried there....I was packing my bags and leaving Florida for the mountains.
I want to live in an “habitable” place...(:>))