Story details expedition that reveals unprecedented glacier and polar ice cap melting — seals vanishing

It would seem the that an article that the folks at WattsUpWithThat found describes some very troubling events.  Melting polar ice caps, disappearing glaciers, vanishing seals, and a disturbing shift of a very warm gulf stream, very far north.

They described a radical climate change in the artic area, with never before seen warm temperatures.

Here is the story from WattsUpWithThat:

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 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Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.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.

Ok, before you man-made global warming skeptics jump out of a window, or worse, send a check to Al Gore to help him achieve his goal of being the first billionaire created from his world wide global warming panic, I should point out that the article in question was published in 1922.

If you head over to WattsUpWithThat they have links to the full story from 1922 which makes for interesting reading.

While I mostly posted this for its comedic value, it does reinforce that the earth continues to go through heating and cooling cycles (as it has for millions of years), which man both does not fully understand and has little impact on.