According to NOAA, 1904 was the coldest year on record.
“Observations of the Alpine glaciers during a series of years have supplied proof that these great ice streams have long been in prove of recession. Similar evidence with regard to the Greenland glaciers has not been collected over & wile area, though Dr, M. C. Engell, of Copenhagen, who visited the Jakobshavn glacier last summer, has made a collection of facts which seems to show conclusively that the glaciers of Greenland are also receding.
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