1947 Shock News : Arctic Meltdown To Flood The Coasts!

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Steven Goddard

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Arctic glaciers are melting so fast that if something does not happen to retard the rate vast areas of inhabited coasts and low-lying country in various sections of the world may be- come flooded.

6 Responses to 1947 Shock News : Arctic Meltdown To Flood The Coasts!

Dave N says:

November 15, 2011 at 4:03 am

Today’s alarmists probably say people were dumb in the 1940′s, especially given the last couple of sentences.

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Ivan says:

November 15, 2011 at 4:58 am

…and before that, in 1923:
“The Arctic Ocean is warming up, ice-bergs are growing scarcer, and in some places the seals are finding the waters too hot, according to a recent report to the Cocmmerce Department at Washington from the American Consul at Bergen.”
~ 5 April 1923
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/23643052?

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Ivan says:

November 15, 2011 at 5:01 am

…and before that in 1883/4:
“DR. KARL PETERSON, of the Tromso Museum, maintains that from the experience we have gained of late, it may safely be assumed that the Polar basin is not during the whole summer or autumn covered with continuous ice. It is, in fact, evident that the sea shows large tracts of open spaces during these seasons.”
~12 Jan 1884
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/62141834?

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Ivan says:

November 15, 2011 at 5:10 am

…and before that in 1853:
“Dr. Kane, when frozen up in the winter of 1853, sent two men overland, towards the north, and they approached within 518 miles of the pole. They there saw from the summit of a cliff, an immense, open, iceless sea, throwing towards heaven, frozen-capped waves, rolling an ocean swell, and a tide setting towards the north. The water had a temperature of 40 degrees”
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/3244756?

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Blade says:

November 15, 2011 at 11:28 am

This guy, Ahlmann again. Here is the plaintext …

Cairns Post (Qld. : Friday 4 July 1947)

WORLD IS WARMING UP,

SAYS PROFESSOR.

NEW .YORK (A.P.).-Professor Hans Ahlman, of the University of Stockholm, a prominent geographer and glaciologist now on a lecture tour of the United States, says the world is getting warmer.

All over the world, even in the tropics, the temperature is rising, he says, adding that the Arctic glaciers are melting so fast that if something does not happen to retard the rate vast areas of inhabited coasts and low-lying country tn various sections of the world may become flooded. A warmer world, however, has its advantages, too. Ahlman declares fish-among them cod-now migrate further north. Also, he says, there has been a forest growth in areas once treeless, crops are more abundant is areas where they once were poor and drift ice does not spread over as large a territory as it once did.

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Jimash says:

November 15, 2011 at 4:45 pm

Fortunately we know, now, (ahem) that melting sea ice cannot flood anything.
As for the rest, all positive effects.

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