“Tue, Jun 01, 1948 – Page 14
Antarctic Ice Cap Found Shrinking Toward PoleOSLO, June 1 (UP).—A remarkable thinning out of the polar ice cap in the Antarctic is reported by a Norwegian expedition which found bare stretches of earth on an island thickly covered with ice only 20 years ago.”
Jun 01, 1948, page 14 – The Cincinnati Post at Newspapers.com
Sixty years later Antarctica was beginning to melt due to global warming.
“”The Tribune Mon, Jan 14, 2008 – Page 5
Antarctica starts to feel the burn of global warmingExperts say the continent that holds about 90 percent of Earth’s ice is beginning to melt”
Jan 14, 2008, page 5 – The Tribune at Newspapers.com
“Thu 21 Jul 1932 / Page 42
SOME great world change is taking place on the Antarctic Continent. Its glaciers are shrinking. Commander L. A. Bernacchi, who visited the South Polar land 30 years ago, says that the Great Ice Barrier which fronts the continent with a wall of ice for 250 miles has receded at least 30 miles since it was first seen and surveyed. Sir James Ross, who went out on the earliest Antarctic expedition of the nineteenth century, and those who followed him, left clear descriptions of this tremendous ice frontage and its position. It was a cliff 150ft. high and 1000ft. thick. But now it appears to be continuing its century-long process of shrinking; and that process may have been going on for centuries. “
Wow weather is ever changing. We need Michael Mann to investigate this.
Last year a researcher stumbled after an emergency landing upon a Lenin bust in the middle of nowhere in antarctica.
This pretty common scenario turned into something really bizarre
as he found out that the bust was the top of a soviet polar station.
I wonder how it got there after decades of melting antarctic ice?
Along the same lines as Arn’s post, here’s a story about ice melting in Norway, which is revealing human artifacts that are only 4,000 to 5,000 years old. https://www.yahoo.com/news/archaeologists-finding-mysterious-ancient-objects-101601650.html
Arn,
Ca’mon, mann! You r smarter than that.
The polar ice station melted THRU the ice on which it was set up;-} Just like the U.S. planes that sunk deep into Greenland’s ice cap after landing there during WWII.
Comment intended only to prep realists for the silly manntoids (like factoids) alarmists will hurl at REAL comparisons of facts and manntasies.
Must different ice down there that melts at a temp below 0 deg C. Most of Antarctica apart from the northern peninsula rarely dips below minus 20C and for most of the year is a lot more negative than that. The sinking by melting through theory is preposterous.
That’s weird and also hilarious. “What did I just trip on? Oh, it’s only a Lenin bust. Nothing unusual about that.”
I can not even imagine how weird it is to first go down with a plane(assuming the story is real) and then seeing Lenin(the station with his bust on top exists) there at the most remote place on earth(It’s in the center at 3.5km altitude).
Nothing a thousand hours of therapy can not fix,
but way too overwhelming.
“Funny Note” – the place used to be at an altitude of 3560 meters and stands now at 3660 meters.
I wonder how much of the 100 meters is result of adjustment (80 years ago they were already way more accurate) and how much is related to snow and ice?
Weather caused similar fluctuations at the North Pole, for THOUSANDS of years. Proof exists in ships logs & other written records kept by Scandinavian whalers, sealers, fishermen and others.