1958 : New York Times Reported That Arctic Sea Ice Had Lost Half Its Volume

2 Responses to 1958 : New York Times Reported That Arctic Sea Ice Had Lost Half Its Volume

1. Barnes says:

   December 22, 2013 at 6:29 pm

   I will do you one better:

   “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   Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.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.”

   Washington Post on November 2, 1922:

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2. norilsk says:

   December 24, 2013 at 6:41 pm

   The Arctic is notorious for variability.

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