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Originally Posted by rsibole
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 the Consulate 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Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.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 coast cities uninhabitable.
I must apologize. I neglected to mention that this report was from November 2 , 1922, as reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post 96 years ago. This must have been caused by the Model T Ford's emissions or possibly from horse and cattle farts.
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The whole point of science is also to measure the data. Measuring CO2 in ice cores, the planet had a predictable rate in its changes (yes there are measurable natural climate cycles). However, since the time of the industrial revolution that timeline has drastically sped up. Mankind has influenced thr planets once steady natural cycles. If you would like to use common sense instead of science data, it too leads you to the same conclusion. Of course man influences the earth. Did you ever see pictures of Los Angeles in the 1930’s? You can’t see one block down the roads because smog is so thick due to fossil burning fuels. I remember seeing it coming in for a landing at the airport in the ‘70’s. Terrible. Since California passed hard restrictions on particulate’s on vehicles and other sources, they don’t have smog days anymore. The aide is clear and smog alerts are no more, Human beings polluting the earth in whatever capacity always needs to be addressed. We should always look to bettering our environment. That is common sense. However, will we get there? Doubtful. Not because it’s not possible. Our society can’t make changes when profits are more important. Fossil fuel industry doesn’t want to lose its profits (and subsidies), and keep giving huge donations to politicians which then make voting decisions based on money, not science, and definitely not common sense.