My God! It's all true! I mean all that global warming stuff that I have pilloried for years. I shall be forced to recant and to grovel before all those prats, sorry, wise men like, er, 'Dim' Lambert - too, too humiliating. Still, there it is, in black and white, in the august and authoritative Washington Post, no less:
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Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.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.
Oh, but hang on, what's this ... the date ... oh, I see, er, November 1922! Good grief, you mean this has been going on for 86 years? Well, my flabber is truly gasted! I mean, how come there's any ice left up there at all?
I'm not a suspicious or cynical man, as you all know full well, but I think some one's taking the piss - it wouldn't be that 'Dim' Lambert, would it? Well, I mean, he is Australian, you know!
Hat tip and full story to the always excellent Anthony Watts.
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