{"id":3298,"date":"2021-08-10T02:36:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T16:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2021-08-10T02:37:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T16:37:23","slug":"polar-ice-thaw-increasing-glaciers-said-to-be-melting-18-feb-1952-polar-icecaps-were-melting-at-an-astonishing-and-unexplained-rate-and-were-threatening-to-swamp-seaports-by-raising-the-ocea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=3298","title":{"rendered":"POLAR ICE THAW INCREASING GLACIERS SAID TO BE MELTING 18 Feb 1952. The glaciers of Norway and Alaska are only half the size they were 50 years ago."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>POLAR ICE THAW INCREASING (1952, February 18). <i>Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 &#8211; 1954)<\/i>, p. 1. Retrieved August 10, 2021, from <a href=\"https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/42734540?searchTerm=polar%20ice%20thaw%20increasing&amp;searchLimits=#\">https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/42734540?searchTerm=polar%20ice%20thaw%20increasing&amp;searchLimits=#<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CLEVELAND, Feb. 16 (A.A.P.).\u2014<br \/>\nDr. William S. Carlson, an Arctic expert, said to-night that the Polar icecaps were melting at an astonishing and unexplained rate and were threatening to swamp seaports by raising the ocean levels.<br \/>\nDr. Carlson said 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.<br \/>\n\u201cThe glaciers of Norway and Alaska are only half the size they were 50 years ago. The temperature around Spitsbergen has so modified that the sailing time has lengthened from three to eight months of the year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POLAR ICE THAW INCREASING (1952, February 18). Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 &#8211; 1954), p. 1. Retrieved August 10, 2021, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[56,315,319,65,317,313,318,316,314,320],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3300,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions\/3300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}