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Friday, July 11, 2008

The supporters of the apocalyptic global warming hypothesis rely a lot on anecdotal information, but are quick to discount anecdotal information that does not support the global warming hypothesis. Here is an anecdotal report from the blog Powerline that supports global warming. Of course the report is from 1922. And warming probably was happening then.

The Arctic, getting warmer:

“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 US Consul Ifft, at Bergen, Norway. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers, he declared, 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 with 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 Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well-known glaciers have entirely disappeared.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.”


This morning's New York Times? No, the U.S. Weather Bureau, 1922
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