SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1958
SEVERAL thousand scientists of many nations have recently been climbing mountains, digging tunnels in glaciers, journeying to the Antarctic, camping on floating Arctic ice.
Glaciers in the western United States, for example, have lost 50 per cent of their ice in seventy years. The floating ice of the Arctic is one-third thinner and covers a considerably smaller area than it did sixty years ago.
TimesMachine: December 7, 1958 – NYTimes.com
The latest research implies that Abraham Lincoln could have stopped this with a carbon tax.
“Scientists have found that modern rates of sea level rise began emerging in 1863 as the Industrial Age intensified”
Onset of modern sea level rise began in 1863, study finds — ScienceDaily
