Global Warming report. Be sure and look at the last line. :surprised:

[Mike Chgo area]

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 Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.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 - 90+ years ago.

 

[SeniorSeeker]

The earth changes every once in a while. It's been doing it since time began. Certainly man & machine aren't helping any but that's not the whole picture; even if Al Gore says so.

 

[SeniorSeeker]

Still ...... I'd really like to see the major automotive manufacturers make more effort to produce electric vehicles. If they don't get on the ball soon, Japan is once again going to take the lead. Even Volkswagen is getting into the act. The U.S. Is offering too little too late; as usual. That's the problem w/being tied to the oil industry. Honda, Nissan, & others are ahead of the game, which doesn't surprise me. They've realized something has to be done as their running out of room to roam and fuel to get it there. Yamaha is also coming up with some amazing alternatives for transportation & many of the European countries are returning to simpler modes of transportation; like the bicycle. Our public transportation here, in the states doesn't hold a candle to what's available to the general public in most European countries. Here in West Michigan, other than our local buses running Monday through Saturday, we're dead in the water for good public transportation!

 

[Mike Chgo area]

n/t

 

[SeniorSeeker]

If I were to tell you there's technology available that makes batteries nearly obsolete, would you believe it? Well......there is. There are at least two European nations that have proto types that are perpetual electric motors. Now do you want to hear the neat thing about it? This particular electric perpetual motor was designed nearly a hundred years ago by a Russian gentleman that was the designer for AC electric system still working for the Niagara Falls. The technology is there but the auto industry simply don't want to let go of their connection with the oil industry. It's that simple!!!!!!

 

[Nauti]

You are correct.......it's why electric charging points are not been installed in large numbers,why lpg has'nt taken off like it should have etc,etc.Cheaper forms of transport are not beneficial to the big oil companies so they do not move forward.
Over here,diesel used to be a lot cheaper than petrol,but because diesel vehicles are now more popular over here than petrol cars,it is now about 4 pence a litre dearer.The oil companies have got a lot of clout,many great ideas for cheaper transport have been scuppered by the oil giants buying ideas and shutting them away.They don't care about the environment as long as the money keeps rolling in.