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Source: Harrisburg Sunday Courier

URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/89276088/?terms=greenland%2Bglaciers%2Bcatastrophic%2Bahlmann

Date: 17/12/1939

Event: Glaciers "face the possibility of a catastrophic collapse"

Credit: Harrisburg Sunday Courier

HARRISBURG SUNDAY COURIER - DEC 17, 1939

Glaciers Melting Over Greenland

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - (INS) - All the glaciers in Eastern Greenland are rapidly melting, declared Prof. Hans Ahlmann, Swedish geologist, in a report to the Geographical Society here on his recent expedition to the Arctic sub-continent.

"Everything points to the fact that the climate in that region has been growing warmer during recent years," the professor said.

"It may without exaggeration be said that the glaciers - like those in Norway - face the possibility of a catastrophic collapse."