“Reports from Baffin bay and the other waters around Greenland also tell of an unprecedented melting of the arctic ice fields. It if an arctic explorer had happened to be in the far north this summer he. would have been able to get fairly close to the Pole in boats. Some say that the melting of the arctic ice cap is one of the direct results of the abnormally hot weather this summer, while others hold that the hot weather melting ice and the release of an unusual amount of heat from the warmer ocean water. Thus it is the same old question as to which is effect. Astronomers studying the planet Mars have noted an unusual melting of the ice- cap on that planet”
17 Sep 1911, Page 6 – The Atlanta Constitution at Newspapers.com
