EARTH is down with a fever. Even the polar ice has vanished. Reports The Washington Post:
The Arctic seems to be warming up. Reports all point to a radical change in climatic conditions, and hitherto unheard-of high temperatures in that part of the earth’s surface. Expeditions have sailed as far as 81 degrees 29 minutes north in ice-free water. The eastern Arctic has steadily gotten warmer, and today the Arctic of that region is not recognizable as the same region of about 50 years ago. Many old landmarks have changed as to be unrecognizable. Where formerly great masses of ice were found, there are now often moraines, accumulations of earth and stones. At many points where glaciers formerly extended far into the sea they have entirely disappeared.
Thus the Arctic sweats:
Formerly the waters around Spitzbergen (Norway) held an even summer temperature of about 3 degrees Celsius; this year recorded temperatures up to 15 degrees, and last winter the ocean did not freeze over even on the north coast of Spitzbergen.
Spitzbergen sits far within the Arctic Circle, incidentally. Imagine an ice-free winter deep within the Arctic Circle — if you can.
As well imagine hell without its fires. But there you are.
To deny climate change is to deny the very nose upon your face — or gravity itself.
Wait… When?
But what is this? Could it be?
The article here cited bears the date of November 2… 1922.
That is correct — November 2, 1922.
The Arctic was iceless in 1922… if you accept the verdict of The WashingtonPost.
But the internal combustion engine was a mere adolescent in 1922, a junior menace, a future bugaboo.
Industry was up and going — but enough to melt the stubborn Arctic ice? We are filled with doubt.
We must therefore credit an alternate heat source. But what?
We do not know. We lack credentials within the climatic sciences.
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