1952 Shock News : Melting Arctic To Drown Australian Ports

2 Responses to 1952 Shock News : Melting Arctic To Drown Australian Ports

1. Blade says:

   September 22, 2011 at 12:57 pm

   Here is the plaintext …

   The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : Monday 18 February 1952)

   Melting Pole Ice Threat To Ports

   Australian Associated Press

   CLEVELAND, Sun. - Dr. William S. Carlson, an Arctic expert, said last night that polar ice-caps were melting at an astonishing and unexplained rate, and were threatening to swamp sea ports by raising ocean levels.

   Dr. Carlson, president of the University of Vermont, told the Cleveland Medical Library Association it would take hundreds of years for the melting to have much effect, but the rate in the last half century had been exceedingly rapid.

   “The glaciers of Norway and Alaska,” he said, “are only half the size they were 50 years ago. The temperature around Spitzbergen has so modified that the sailing time has lengthened from three to eight months of the year.”

   Dr. Carlson spent several years in Greenland as a geologist and meteorologist.

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2. MostlyHarmless says:

   September 22, 2011 at 5:17 pm

   Seems to me “hundreds of years” is a somewhat drawn-out threat. Good to see that alarmism was alive and well back in the 50s.

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