fish wrote:White Line Fever wrote:Listening to 5AA last night, Bob Francis...
He was reading out a report on how the ice caps are melting, significant glaciers are gone, seals no longer in places, coastal towns in big trouble etc etc then he goes.. and this report was written in 1920!!
Pretty amusing
LOL funny if it's true.
WLF it appears that the report is bona-fide and I have managed to find it on one of the climate-deniers websites. To read it
click here. The article starts about half way down the page and is titled "The Changing Arctic". The article is not a scientific report but a record of the observations from a Norwegian coal finding expedition in the Arctic in August 1922. It is pretty interesting and details significant losses of ice and stocks of fish and seals.
There is no mention of "coastal towns in trouble" though - are you sure that was mentioned WLF?
Anyway, it got me thinking so I had a look back at the
historical temperature record and found that, sure enough, temperatures in the 1920's had been increasing steadily since about 1915 or so. This explains the observations of the 1922 Norwegian expedition. The fact that global temperature variations are more pronounced at the poles than at the equators means that the Arctic probably had experienced more warming than the temperature record suggests. The graph shows that the global temperature has continued to rise to the present.
I also had a look back at the
historical carbon dioxide levels and found that in the 1920's the levels had already started increasing from the pre-industrial era. From the graph it looks like the carbon dioxide concentration was about 305ppm in the 1920’s compared to 280ppm prior to industrialisation – a rise of 9%.
What I’m thinking is that the Norwegian expedition had observed some of the first manifestations of human-induced climate change!
Interesting stuff I reckon – thanks Bob Francis!
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