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| Thread ID: 124672 | 2012-05-11 23:04:00 | Global Warming | Roscoe (6288) | PC World Chat |
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| 1274706 | 2012-05-11 23:04:00 | The Washington Post/Associated Press 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 Consulafft, 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 metres 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 Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.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. * * * * * * * * * I apologise... I neglected to mention that this report was from November 2, 1922, as reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post - 89 years ago. ****************** __________________________________________________ _____________________ |
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| 1274707 | 2012-05-11 23:07:00 | Well played, Roscoe, well played.... :D | johcar (6283) | ||
| 1274708 | 2012-05-12 00:30:00 | wattsupwiththat.com | Twelvevolts (5457) | ||
| 1274709 | 2012-05-12 00:35:00 | “Is our climate changing? The succession of temperate summers and open winters through several years, culminating last winter in the almost total failure of the ice crop throughout the valley of the Hudson, makes the question pertinent. The older inhabitants tell us that the winters are not as cold now as when they were young, and we have all observed a marked diminution of the average cold even in this last decade.” – New York Times, June 23, 1890 | Twelvevolts (5457) | ||
| 1274710 | 2012-05-12 00:39:00 | And just when you were selling that house by the sea “The question is again being discussed whether recent and long-continued observations do not point to the advent of a second glacial period, when the countries now basking in the fostering warmth of a tropical sun will ultimately give way to the perennial frost and snow of the polar regions.” – New York Times, Feb. 24, 1895 |
Twelvevolts (5457) | ||
| 1274711 | 2012-05-12 00:46:00 | Well Auckland had a killer frost in first few days of May. Some winters can go right thru without any. So is global cooling coming? |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 1274712 | 2012-05-12 03:03:00 | Yeah, nah :) | feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 1274713 | 2012-05-12 04:35:00 | So that's why Surfer J has headed up into the banana belt. :) :) | BobM (1138) | ||
| 1274714 | 2012-05-12 04:55:00 | I always wanted to live by the sea. Maybe I should wait for the sea to come to me, seeing as the sea is rising. :D | Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1274715 | 2012-05-12 05:02:00 | Oh and in other news the end of the world has been canceled for Dec 22 this year. www.nzherald.co.nz Darn. I'll have to forgo the spending spree.. |
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