August 1922 – Sweltering Heat In The Arctic While A Typhoon Killed 100,000 People In China

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1. Ivan says:

   March 18, 2011 at 11:39 pm

   1922-23 seems to have been a year of “Arctic Global Warming”…
   “ARCTIC “HEAT WAVE.” ICEBERGS DIMINISHING.
   The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer, and in some places the seals are finding the waters too hot…
   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 28 minutes.”
   http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/23643052?
   ~5 April 1923

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2. Scarlet Pumpernickel says:

   March 19, 2011 at 2:28 am

   http://www.metacafe.com/watch/4035688/making_fire_with_ice/

   Making fire with ice

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