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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 Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.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.
This report was from November 2, 1922, as reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post 89 years ago!
So I guess GW is almost 100 years old. Is nothing new?
I remember reading about a giant chunk of ice that broke off of Greenland in 2010. They said the glacier was four times the size of Manhattan across and half the height of the Empire State building. They said the rate of melting in Greenland isn't constant anymore but going up exponentially every year.
Scary to think what could happen if all the ice on Greenland melted or even just half of it.
I remember reading about a giant chunk of ice that broke off of Greenland in 2010. They said the glacier was four times the size of Manhattan across and half the height of the Empire State building. They said the rate of melting in Greenland isn't constant anymore but going up exponentially every year.
Scary to think what could happen if all the ice on Greenland melted or even just half of it.
Antarctic ice formed at CO2 levels much higher than today's
New research has shown that the mighty ice sheet covering the Antarctic froze into being when the world had a much higher level of carbon dioxide in its atmosphere than it does today.
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