The

Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and

in some places the

seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report

to the Commerce

Department yesterday from Consulate at Bergen,

Norway.

Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and

explorers all point to a radical change in climate

conditions and hitherto

unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration

expeditions report that

scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29

minutes.

Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream

still very warm. Great masses of ice have been replaced by

moraines of earth and

stones, the report continued, while at many points well

known glaciers have

entirely disappeared.

Very few seals and no white fish are found in

the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts

which have never

before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the

old seal fishing

grounds. Within a few years it is predicted that due to the

ice melt the sea

will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.

This must have been

caused by the Model T Ford’s emissions.

* * * * * * * * *

I must

apologize.

 

I

neglected to mention that this report was from November 2,

1922, as reported by

the AP and published in The Washington Post . . . . 93 years

ago!

Global

Warming ? ?

? ?