MYSTERIOUS WARMING OF ARCTIC CLIMATE 31 May 1947. Temperatures in the Arctic have increased by 10 degrees Fahrenheit since 1900, an “enormous” rise from a scientific standpoint. Waters in the Spitsbergen area in the same period have risen three to five degrees in temperature, and one to 1½ millimeters a year in level.
“MYSTERIOUS WARMING OF ARCTIC CLIMATE” The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 – 1954) 31 May 1947: 2. Web. 7 May 2021 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/26406193?searchTerm=global%20warming#
LOS ANGELES, Fri. (A.A.P.)
—A mysterious warming of the climate is slowly manifesting itself in the Arctic.
If the Antarctic ice regions, and the major Greenland icecap should reduce at the same rate as the present melting, oceanic surfaces would rise to catastrophic proportions, and people living in the lowlands along the shores would be inundated.
Dr Hans Ahlmann, noted Swedish geophysicist, said this today at the University of California’s geophysical institute.
Dr Ahlmann added that the temperatures in the Arctic have increased by 10 degrees Fahrenheit
since 1900, an “enormous” rise from a scientific standpoint.
Waters in the Spitsbergen area in the same period have risen three to five degrees in temperature, and one to 1½ millimeters a year in level,
“The Arctic change is so serious that I hope an international agency can speedily be formed to study conditions on a global basis,” he added.
Dr Ahlmann pointed out that in 1910 the navigable season along the Western Spitsbergen lasted three months. It now lasts eight months.