I think we are on to something. Have you seen this article from the Washington Post? Comments please?
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 Consul Ifft, at Bergen, Norway. Reports from
fishermen,
seal hunters and explorers, he declared, 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 with 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masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the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.
I’m sorry, I neglected to mention that this report was from November 2,
1922
as reported by the AP and published in 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 Consul Ifft, at Bergen, Norway. Reports from
fishermen,
seal hunters and explorers, he declared, 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 with 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masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the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.
I’m sorry, I neglected to mention that this report was from November 2,
1922
as reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post.