“The Kansas City Star (Kansas City, Missouri) • o1 Nov 1922, Wed • Page 1
Radical Change in Climatic Conditions In North Is Indicated by Disappearance of Glacier. and Formation of Moraines.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer, and in some places the seals are finding the waters too hot, according to a report to the commerce department today from Consul lift, at Bergen, Norway. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers, he declared, all point to a radical change in climatic conditions, and hitherto unheard of temperatures in the Arctic zone, exploration expeditions reporting 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 re-placed by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have dis-appeared entirely. Very few seals, and no white fish are being found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts, which never before have ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.”
