Source: The Great Bend Tribune
URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/95950988/?terms=arctic%2Bwarming%2Bup
Date: 02/11/1922
Event: "The Arctic ocean is warming up..."
Credit: The Great Bend Tribune
THE GREAT BEND TRIBUNE - NOV 2, 1922
Arctic Ocean Warming Up
In Some Places Seals Are Finding Waters Too Hot, Says Report
WASHINGTON, Nov 2 - The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarce and in some places the seals are finding the waters too hot, according to a report to the commerce department today at Consul Ifft, at Bergen, Norway.
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 29 minutes.
Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.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 being 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.