Since You mentioned global warming, here is an eMail I got today:
Subject: WEATHER REPORT ................"The sky is falling"!
The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer andin some
places the seals are finding the water too hot, according toa 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 Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of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.
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.
Nearly 88 years ago! But we're still here!
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