Breaking news.....
The climate 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 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Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the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 and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.
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I'm sorry! I neglected to mention that this London Telegraph report was from November 2nd,1922
Reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post.