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 Consulaff, 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have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while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 enough to make most coastal cities
uninhabitable.
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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 92+ years
ago.
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