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You ask, I provide. November 2nd, 1922. Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt |
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Written by Anthony Watts, Watts Up with That
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Monday, 17 March 2008 |
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Here is the text for those who may have trouble reading the article above:
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Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines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.
If Yogi Berra were here to comment on the hullabaloo over the changes in the arctic today, I’m pretty sure he’d say. “It’s Deja Vu all over again”. Source
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