That was zinger in the end line, until I remembered that the story has been circulating in emails. And is now part of the conservative right's claim that nothing is new under the sun and that global warming is in Al Gore political conspiracy.
I checked, and numerous sources around 2007 verify the article. The article was from Spitsbergen, Norway and predominantly about conditions in that region in that year. And not about the entire Arctic that is being examined very carefully today. The latest National Geographic points out that Arctic sea ice is retreating and will only occupy a narrow strip north of Hudson Bay and Greenland at the end of the century. All Arctic wildlife that depend upon sea ice will then be congregated in that small area.
We first began pumping huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the air in the late 18th century with the advent of burning coal for heating and steam power industries and locomotion. So an event in 1922 might be related to global warming as yet undetected until the 1930s.
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I checked, and numerous sources around 2007 verify the article. The article was from Spitsbergen, Norway and predominantly about conditions in that region in that year. And not about the entire Arctic that is being examined very carefully today. The latest National Geographic points out that Arctic sea ice is retreating and will only occupy a narrow strip north of Hudson Bay and Greenland at the end of the century. All Arctic wildlife that depend upon sea ice will then be congregated in that small area.
We first began pumping huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the air in the late 18th century with the advent of burning coal for heating and steam power industries and locomotion. So an event in 1922 might be related to global warming as yet undetected until the 1930s.
Ron