Re: Nov. 2, 1922 - Arctic Ocean warming, icebergs growing scarce, Washington Post reports
Green Turtle
"It will without doubt have come to your Lordship's knowledge
that a considerable change of climate, inexplicable at present to us,
must have taken place in the Circumpolar Regions, by which the severity of
the cold that has for centuries past enclosed the seas in the high
northern latitudes in an impenetrable barrier of ice has been during the
last two
years, greatly abated.
(This) affords ample proof that new sources of warmth have been
opened and give us leave to hope that the Arctic Seas may at this time be
more accessible than they have been for centuries past, and that
discoveries may now be made in them not only interesting to the advancement
of
science but also to the future intercourse of mankind and the commerce of
distant nations."
President of the Royal Society, London, to the Admiralty, 20th
November,
1817
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Golly, a big melting of ice, and in 1817 that opened up passages in the
north?
Geesh! The current AGW bull shit only makes sense if one is ignorant, and
will not accept any prior history, such as the Medieval Warming period. We
seen this type of ice melt, and it not in ANY WAY unusual at all unless you
ignore growing grapes and wine in England, and growing of food..even fruit
in Greenland. And, ships logs as above shows ice melting...
Nothing new to see here...move along...
Super Turtle
O_N_Z_O_B
2 Mar 2010
"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 Commerce
Department report published by the Washington Post. Writes the Post:
"Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers. . . all point to a
radical change in climate conditions and . . . unheard-of temperatures in
the Arctic zone . . . Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of
earth and stones . . . while at many points well-known glaciers have
entirely disappeared."
More evidence of human-caused global warming? Hardly.
The above report of runaway Arctic warming is from a Washington Post story
published Nov. 2, 1922 and bears an uncanny resemblance to the tales of
global warming splattered across the front pages of today's newspapers.
It is one of many historical accounts published during the past 140 years
describing climate changes and often predicting catastrophic cooling or
warming.
Here are excerpts from a few of those accounts, appearing as early as 1870:
"The climate of New-York and the contiguous Atlantic seaboard has long been
a study of great interest. We have just experienced a remarkable instance of
its peculiarity. The Hudson River, by a singular freak of temperature, has
thrown off its icy mantle and opened its waters to navigation."
- New York Times, Jan. 2, 1870
"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
"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
Professor Gregory of Yale University stated that "another world ice-epoch is
due." He was the American representative to the Pan-Pacific Science Congress
and warned that North America would disappear as far south as the Great
Lakes, and huge parts of Asia and Europe would be "wiped out."
- Chicago Tribune, Aug. 9, 1923
"The discoveries of changes in the sun's heat and southward advance of
glaciers in recent years have given rise to the conjectures of the possible
advent of a new ice age"
- Time Magazine, Sept. 10, 1923
Headline: "America in Longest Warm Spell Since 1776; Temperature Line
Records a 25-year Rise" - New York Times, March 27, 1933
"America is believed by Weather Bureau scientists to be on the verge of a
change of climate, with a return to increasing rains and deeper snows and
the colder winters of grandfather's day."
- Associated Press, Dec. 15, 1934
Warming Arctic Climate Melting Glaciers Faster, Raising Ocean Level,
Scientist Says - "A mysterious warming of the climate is slowly manifesting
itself in the Arctic, engendering a "serious international problem," Dr.
Hans Ahlmann, noted Swedish geophysicist, said today.
- New York Times, May 30, 1937
"Greenland's polar climate has moderated so consistntly that communities of
hunters have evolved into fishing villages. Sea mammals, vanishing from the
west coast, have been replaced by codfish and other fish species in the
area's southern waters."
- New York Times, Aug. 29, 1954
"An analysis of weather records from Little America shows a steady warming
of climate over the last half century. The rise in average temperature at
the Antarctic outpost has been about five degrees Fahrenheit."
- New York Times, May 31, 1958
"Several thousand scientists of many nations have recently been climbing
mountains, digging tunnels in glaciers, journeying to the Antarctic, camping
on floating Arctic ice. Their object has been to solve a fascinating riddle:
what is happening to the world's ice?
- New York Times, Dec. 7, 1958
"After a week of discussions on the causes of climate change, an assembly of
specialists from several continents seems to have reached unanimous
agreement on only one point: it is getting colder." - New York Times, Jan.
30, 1961
"Like an outrigger canoe riding before a huge comber, the earth with its
inhabitants is caught on the downslope of an immense climatic wave that is
plunging us toward another Ice Age."
- Los Angeles Times, Dec. 23, 1962
"Col. Bernt Balchen, polar explorer and flier, is circulating a paper among
polar specialists proposing that the Arctic pack ice is thinning and that
the ocean at the North Pole may become an open sea within a decade or two."
- New York Times, Feb. 20, 1969
"By 1985, air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching
earth by one half ..."
- Life magazine, January 1970
"In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large
areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead
fish."
- Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day, 1970
"Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is
taken against problems facing mankind. We are in an environmental crisis
which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable
place of human habitation."
- Barry Commoner (Washington University), Earth Day, 1970
Because of increased dust, cloud cover and water vapor, "the planet will
cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new Ice Age will be born."
- Newsweek magazine, Jan. 26, 1970
"The United States and the Soviet Union are mounting large-scale
investigations to determine why the Arctic climate is becoming more frigid,
why parts of the Arctic sea ice have recently become ominously thicker and
whether the extent of that ice cover contributes to the onset of ice ages."
- New York Times, July 18, 1970
"In the next 50 years, fine dust that humans discharge into the atmosphere
by burning fossil fuel will screen out so much of the sun's rays that the
Earth's average temperature could fall by six degrees. Sustained emissions
over five to 10 years, could be sufficient to trigger an ice age."
- Washington Post, July 9, 1971
"It's already getting colder. Some midsummer day, perhaps not too far in the
future, a hard, killing frost will sweep down on the wheat fields of
Saskatchewan, the Dakotas and the Russian steppes. . . ." - Los Angles
Times, Oct. 24, 1971
"An international team of specialists has concluded from eight indexes of
climate that there is no end in sight to the cooling trend of the last 30
years, at least in the Northern Hemisphere."
- New York Times, Jan. 5, 1978
"A poll of climate specialists in seven countries has found a consensus that
there will be no catastrophic changes in the climate by the end of the
century. But the specialists were almost equally divided on whether there
would be a warming, a cooling or no change at all."
- New York Times, Feb. 18, 1978
"A global warming trend could bring heat waves, dust-dry farmland and
disease, the experts said. Under this scenario, the resort town of Ocean
City, Md., will lose 39 feet of shoreline by 2000 and a total of 85 feet
within the next 25 years."
- San Jose Mercury News, June 11, 1986
"Global warming could force Americans to build 86 more power plants-at a
cost of $110 billion-to keep all their air conditioners running 20 years
from now, a new study says...Using computer models, researchers concluded
that global warming would raise average annual temperatures nationwide two
degrees by 2010, and the drain on power would require the building of 86 new
midsize power plants
- Associated Press, May 15, 1989
"New York will probably be like Florida 15 years from now."
-St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sept. 17, 1989
(actually Florida was more like New York 20 years later)
"[By] 1995, the greenhouse effect would be desolating the heartlands of
North America and Eurasia with horrific drought, causing crop failures and
food riots . . . [By 1996] The Platte River of Nebraska would be dry, while
a continent-wide black blizzard of prairie topsoil will stop traffic on
interstates, strip paint from houses and shut down computers . . . The
Mexican police will round up illegal American migrants surging into Mexico
seeking work as field hands."
- "Dead Heat: The Race Against the Greenhouse Effect," Michael Oppenheimer
and Robert H. Boyle, 1990.
"It appears that we have a very good case for suggesting that the El Ninos
are going to become more frequent, and they're going to become more intense
and in a few years, or a decade or so, we'll go into a permanent El Nino. So
instead of having cool water periods for a year or two, we'll have El Nino
upon El Nino, and that will become the norm. And you'll have an El Nino,
that instead of lasting 18 months, lasts 18 years," according to Dr. Russ
Schnell, a scientist doing atmospheric research at Mauna Loa Observatory.
- BBC, Nov. 7, 1997 (followed immediately in late 1998 by three straight
years of La Nina)
"Scientists are warning that some of the Himalayan glaciers could vanish
within ten years because of global warming. A build-up of greenhouse gases
is blamed for the meltdown, which could lead to drought and flooding in the
region affecting millions of people."
-The Birmingham Post in England, July 26, 1999
"This year (2007) is likely to be the warmest year on record globally,
beating the current record set in 1998."
- ScienceDaily, Jan. 5, 2007
Arctic warming has become so dramatic that the North Pole may melt this
summer (2008), report scientists studying the effects of climate change in
the field. "We're actually projecting this year that the North Pole may be
free of ice for the first time [in history]," David Barber, of the
University of Manitoba, told National Geographic News aboard the C.C.G.S.
Amundsen, a Canadian research icebreaker.
- National Geographic News, June 20, 2008
"So the climate will continue to change, even if we make maximum effort to
slow the growth of carbon dioxide. Arctic sea ice will melt away in the
summer season within the next few decades. Mountain glaciers, providing
fresh water for rivers that supply hundreds of millions of people, will
disappear - practically all of the glaciers could be gone within 50 years. .
. Clearly, if we burn all fossil fuels, we will destroy the planet we know .
. . We would set the planet on a course to the ice-free state, with sea
level 75 metres higher. Climatic disasters would occur continually."
- Dr. James Hansen (NASA GISS), The Observer, Feb. 15, 2009.
Climate change? Yes, there has been plenty of that during the past 140
years. Despite warnings by "experts of the day" of approaching climate
disasters, mankind somehow managed to survive.
A decade or so from now, after earth's climate changes once again, those who
are old enough will recall with amusement the time, early in the 21st
century, when the world went crazy over an imaginary threat called "global
warming."
Kirk Myers is one of the few environmental reporters who is bothering to
look at actual data - not reading from the guidelines provided by the
Society of Environmental Journalists.
We applaud him for his boldness.
Warmest Regards
0zb0n
"In one of the more expensive ironies of history, the expenditure of more
than $US50 billion on research into global warming since 1990 has failed to
demonstrate any human-caused climate trend, let alone a dangerous one."
Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville