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have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report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 whitefish 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 coast cities uninhabitable.
Oops…I neglected to mention that this report was from
November 2, 1922, as reported by the AP and published in The
Washington Post over 90 years ago. – The Liberator