> Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 23:00:51 -0600
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> I guess maybe Al Gore was right, after all - or was he? Did this report finally come out too late to save us? You decide.
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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 Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.
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> Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelt which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.
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> Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.
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> Oops, sorry. Inconvenient truth here. I neglected to mention that this was reported by the Associated Press on page 2 of the Washington Post on November 2, 1922, some 92 years ago.
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> True - http://www.snopes.com/politics/science/globalwarming1922.asp
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> Subject: Fwd: Glaciers melting - seas are going to rise.
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> I guess maybe Al Gore was right, after all - or was he? Did this report finally come out too late to save us? You decide.
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelt which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.
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> Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.
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> Oops, sorry. Inconvenient truth here. I neglected to mention that this was reported by the Associated Press on page 2 of the Washington Post on November 2, 1922, some 92 years ago.
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> True - http://www.snopes.com/politics/science/globalwarming1922.asp
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And if you actually go to the Snopes link, you'll notice the absence of a little kicker the Big Oil partisan tacks on at the end of the forward:
"Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable."
Which isn't in the original transcript, which was specifically talking about unseasonal conditions in Spitzbergen, Norway.
But, as usual with Climate Change deniers and their clueless followers, they refuse to see the bigger picture and just double-down on the stupidity. The vaunted military and even the giant energy corporations recognize what 97% of climate scientists are warning: it's really happening and, unchecked, the results are and will be a disaster. And because this has become a political hot potato (Al Gore is fat!), our legislative bodies will fiddle while Rome burns.
I wish Al Gore would tell these bastards that oxygen is good for you.
The publication of an article in 1922 means it's impossible that the Earth is warming in 2014, I guess.
Brought to you by your favorite rightwing "think" tank. More propaganda for brain dead morons, who choose to bury their heads in the sand. And by the way, Al Gore is fat.
Yes, the global temperature bottomed out around 1910, and it's been on the rise ever since.Scientists may have noticed this in the 1920s. Climate change doesn't mean we all instantly roast like turkeys, just like evolution doesn't mean monkeys magically turn into Congressmen (or do they?)
@Anon
" Climate change doesn't mean we all instantly roast like turkeys, just like evolution doesn't mean monkeys magically turn into Congressmen (or do they?)"
Let's see....hmm....sitting around, chattering incessantly, pissing on everything screaming and throwing shit at each other. Sounds like Congress to me.
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