"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
till very warm.
Great masses of ice
have been replaced by
moraines of
arth 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 smelt
which have never before
ventured so far north,
re 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."
The above report
was from
November 2, 1922,
as reported by the AP
and published in
The Washington Post
– 96 years ago.