WORLD IS WARMING UP, SAYS PROFESSOR. 4th July 1947. Arctic glaciers are melting so fast that if something does not happen to retard the rate vast areas of inhabited coasts and low-lying country in various sections of the world may become flooded.
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NEW YORK (A.P.).—Professor Hans Ahlman, of the University of Stockholm, a prominent geographer and glaciologist now on a lecture tour of the United States, says the world is getting warmer.
All over the world, even in the tropics, the temperature is rising, he says, adding that the Arctic glaciers are melting so fast that if something does not happen to retard the rate vast areas of inhabited coasts and low-lying country in various sections of the world may become flooded.
A warmer world, however, has its advantages, too. Ahlman declares fish—among them cod—now migrate further north.
Also, he says, there has been a forest growth in areas once treeless, crops are more abundant is
areas where they once were poor and drift ice does not spread over as large a territory as it once did.