Chapter 927

This is compliments of Pepere

CLIMATE CHANGE:

The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer, and the seals are finding the water too hot in some places according to a report to the Commerce Department from Consulate at Bergen, Norway yesterday.

Reports from fishermen, seal hunters, and explorers 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 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Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while well-known glaciers have entirely disappeared at many points.

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.

It is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coast cities uninhabitable within a few years.

I must apologize. I neglected to mention that this report was from November 2, 1922, as reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post 94 years ago.

This must have been caused by the Model T Ford’s emissions. or possibly from horse and cattle farts.

This is compliments of Gary:

My doctor always told me that it is okay to talk to yourself. He also said that it is okay to answer yourself. As long as you don’t say, “Huh?”