{"id":4381,"date":"2022-09-14T03:22:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=4381"},"modified":"2022-09-14T03:22:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:22:48","slug":"what-is-the-world-coming-to-29-sept-1939-arctic-warming-by-one-degree-f-in-every-two-years-since-1910-when-observations-first-started-in-those-regions-the-cumulative-rise-of-winter-temperature-has-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=4381","title":{"rendered":"What is The World Coming To? 29 Sept 1939. Arctic warming by one degree F in every two years Since 1910, when observations first started in those regions, the cumulative rise of winter temperature has amounted to nearly 16 degrees."},"content":{"rendered":"

What is The World Coming To? (1939, September 29). Wodonga and Towong Sentinel (Vic. : 1885 – 1954)<\/i>, p. 3. Retrieved September 14, 2022, from https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/69638689?searchTerm=scientists%20have%20confirmed%20the%20fact%20that%20the%20arctic%20regions&searchLimits=#<\/a><\/p>\n

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Scientists<\/span> have<\/span> confirmed<\/span> the<\/span> fact that<\/span> the<\/span> Arctic<\/span> regions<\/span> around Spitzbergen are warming up at the<\/span> rate of approximately one degree in every two years.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Since 1910, when observations first started in those regions,<\/span> the<\/span> cumulative rise of winter temperature has amounted to nearly 16 degrees.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Such a profound change has been attended by new and strange phenomena over the<\/span> whole area surrounding the <\/span>Polar basin. It has been found that the<\/span> Polar iceflelds are receding gradually northwards, while soil which at one time remained solidly frozen throughout the<\/span> year now undergoes partial thaw during the<\/span> Arctic<\/span> summers.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In the<\/span> Barents Sea area where, during earlier observations, only small patches became free from ice, large spaces of open water now occur at frequent intervals. Ice-breakers and other vessels which regularly make journeys to the<\/span> far North are now able to penetrate with comparative ease into regions<\/span> which could not be reached twenty years ago.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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There has been a gradual drift northward of several kinds of fish into areas once completely ice covered.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The<\/span> milder conditions have<\/span> not been confined to areas north of the<\/span> Russian coast. From parts of Greenland comes evidence of a higher winter temperature, with considerably less snow, than was the<\/span> case in the<\/span> early part of the<\/span> twentieth century. When this warming-up process was first noticed, says a writer in the<\/span> \u201cEvening Standard,\u201d scientists<\/span> were inclined to attribute it to a temporary increase in the<\/span> volume of the<\/span> North Atlantic Drift, or even to a change in the <\/span>course of the<\/span> river of warmth, but subsequent events point to this theory being only partially correct.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Parts of the<\/span> Polar regions<\/span> not affected by the<\/span> warm waters have<\/span> grown decidedly warmer in the<\/span> last 20 years, while temperatures have<\/span> become higher in the<\/span> far north-east of Siberia and well inland\u2014remote from oceanic effects.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In support of the<\/span> belief that<\/span> the<\/span> Atlantic river of warmth cannot be wholly responsible for the<\/span> widespread rise in temperature there are the <\/span>trustworthy records obtained by Mr. J. B. Kincer, of the<\/span> Weather Bureau at Washington, which show that<\/span> the <\/span>rise in temperature at places as far apart as Canada and Africa, South America and Asia, Bombay and Santiago (Chile) has been well marked since the<\/span> middle of last century.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It is possible that<\/span> the<\/span> world as a whole is becoming warmer. One scientist puts forward the<\/span> theory that<\/span> an increase in carbon dioxide (due to the <\/span>huge amounts of coal being used) may be responsible for such a change, while astronomers look to the<\/span> sun for an explanation.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Quite apart from any fluctuations in the<\/span> sun\u2019s actual output of radiative energy, it is possible that<\/span> the<\/span> warmth received from the<\/span> sun may vary from time to time due to the<\/span> earth passing through regions<\/span> of space in which meteoric dust is unevenly distributed.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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