Subject: The Norwegians were right on...
Read the whole article.
Read the whole article.
VERY
INTERESTING. READ TO THE VERY END. (very short article...)
Icebergs are Disappearing ??
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 Great masses of ice have been
replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many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 - 88 years ago.
As per SNOPES this is
true, Here is link.
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