EDITOR’S NOTE: Because of the importance of the issues raised in the debate over human-caused global warming, we are reprinting this article from the Associated Press, which appeared in the Washington Post. All Americans — and indeed the inhabitants of the entire planet — need to be aware of the crucial questions raised by this information. Please take special note of the information at the end of the article.

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The Associated Press

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 [U.S.] Consul [George] Ifft, at Bergen, Norway.

Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers 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 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Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.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. Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.

– The foregoing AP article was published in The Washington Post on Nov. 2, 1922.