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 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of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued,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
apologize, I neglected to mention that this report was from November
2, 1922, as reported by the AP and published in
The Washington Post - 90+ years ago. [Verified.] Thanks, Paul!
