Sixty years ago, the New York Times predicted an ice-free Arctic and ships sailing over the North Pole within a generation.
TimesMachine: October 19, 1958 – NYTimes.com
Fifty years ago, they predicted an ice-free Arctic by 1989, with catastrophic shifts in the climate.
Expert Says Arctic Ocean Will Soon Be an Open Sea – Catastrophic Shifts in Climate Feared
It is now July, and there are no ships traversing the Arctic. Perhaps the ship captains forgot to read the New York Times.
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