On 11/02/2017 08:10 PM, ItsJoanNotJoann wrote:
On Thursday, November 2, 2017 at 7:55:19 PM UTC-5, ZZyXX wrote:

Climate Change: Global Temperature
Author: LuAnn Dahlman
September 11, 2017

Temperatures measured on land and at sea for more than a century show
that Earth's globally averaged surface temperature is rising. Since
1970, global surface temperature rose at an average rate of about 0.17°C
(around 0.3° Fahrenheit) per decade€”more than twice as fast as the
0.07°C per decade increase observed for the entire period of recorded
observations (1880-2015). The average global temperature for 2016 was
0.94°C (1.69°F) above the 20th century average of 13.9°C (57.0°F),
surpassing the previous record warmth of 2015 by 0.04°C (0.07°F).

https://www.climate.gov/news-feature...al-temperature


(Some snippage of the post above.)


The Washington Post

The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulafft, at Bergen, Norway. 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 Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.

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. Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.

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I apologize, I neglected to mention that this report was from November 2, 1922, as reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post - 95 years ago!

Oh shucks. I was getting ready to grab my kayak and go for a paddle down
the Avenue of the Americas.