The Arctic Was Much Warmer During The 1930s

3 Responses to The Arctic Was Much Warmer During The 1930s

1. Eric Simpson says:

   July 28, 2013 at 5:23 am

   Good work, Steven. Also, in reference to MWP Greenland another point I just heard is: “The fact that the first waves of settlers in Greenland [during the 1100s] were croft farmers, but it is too cold for crofting in Greenland in 2013 should be another datapoint of interest. The Norse moved from crofting to raising sheep and goats, before finally packing it in in the later 1300’s early 1400’s as the Little Ice Age began.”

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2. mwhite says:

   July 28, 2013 at 8:48 am

   “The CIA is part-funding a $600,000 study to find out whether it can control the weather using geoengineering.

   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2373519/Can-control-weather-CIA-helps-bankroll-600-000-study-controversial-geoengineering-help.html

   Your tax dollars well spent

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3. Blade says:

   July 28, 2013 at 10:09 am

   Here is the plaintext …

   The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : Monday 18 February 1952)

   “Threat” to seaports

   NEW YORK, February 17 (A.A.P.). — Polar icecaps are melting at an astonishing and unexplained rate and threatening to swamp seaports by raising ocean levels.’

   That is the claim of Dr. William S. Carlson, an Arctic expert, and Vermont University president.

   He told the Cleveland Medical Library Association it would take hundreds of years for the melting to have much effect; but the rate in the last half century had been exceedingly rapid.

   The glaciers of Norway and Alaska were only half the size 50 years ago.

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