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| Thread ID: 119545 | 2011-07-28 08:17:00 | A Warning on Global Warming from the Washington Post | KenESmith (6287) | PC World Chat |
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| 1219686 | 2011-07-28 08:17:00 | The Washington Post 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 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 Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared .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 . ==================== I apologize, I neglected to mention that this report was from November 2, 1922, as reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post - 88 years ago! |
KenESmith (6287) | ||
| 1219687 | 2011-07-28 08:30:00 | Scary :horrified | Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1219688 | 2011-07-28 10:10:00 | I'm not going to put my head between my knees just yet. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1219689 | 2011-07-28 10:14:00 | Embrace global warming, you might be able to grow tomatoes in Invercargill in a few years time. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 1219690 | 2011-07-28 10:34:00 | Embrace global warming, you might be able to grow tomatoes in Invercargill in a few years time. I grow tomatoes in Invercargill every year outdoors. |
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| 1219691 | 2011-07-28 10:58:00 | I always feared our new multi-million dollar rugby stadium, built just above sea level, was destined to become an overpriced aquarium. Now maybe it'll be a fishbowl even before we've paid for it. The positive side to all this? Overpriced coastal properties now going real cheap. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1219692 | 2011-07-28 11:09:00 | Does this mean that as the sea rises, the coastline shrinks, therefore there will be less coastal properties and the price will rise? | Whenu (9358) | ||
| 1219693 | 2011-07-28 11:39:00 | We might all be looking for land around Mt Cook.:D | Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1219694 | 2011-07-28 20:51:00 | Info for those that follow this sort of thing.goo.gl | Cicero (40) | ||
| 1219695 | 2011-07-28 21:24:00 | When I see sea water coming up the Georges Drive creek and lapping at my front door then I will worry. I live about 15 feet above sea level. :) |
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