"Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared..."
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EDITORS NOTE: The Washington Post’s online archive database hasn’t functioned for months, and none of he paid online newspaper databases like Proquest or Newspapers.com have records before 1970, so verifying article content before that is challenging. Fortunately, this article was an Associated Press article, and was syndicated in multiple newspapers across the country, and an archive record was found in The Detroit Free Press on November 2, 1922 on Newspapers.com. This is not the oldest verifiable article about climate change, that is Climatology – New York Times – Jan 5, 1855 – Page 4.
Arctic Ocean Getting Warm Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt
Washington Post – Nov 02, 1922 – page 2
The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the waters too hot, according to a report to the commerce department yesterday from Consul Ifft, at Bergen, Norway.
Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers, he declared, all point to a radical change in climatic conditions and hitherto unheard of temperatures in the Arctic zone, exploration expeditions reporting that scarcely any Ice has been met with as far North as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters shelved 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Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.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 whitefish are being 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.