US Weather Bureau Report

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 Great masses of ice have been
replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while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.



I'm sorry, I neglected to mention that this report was from 2nd
November, 1922 as reported by the AP and published in The Washington
Post.