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 Consul Ifft, at Bergen, Norway.... Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.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.
That's the Washington Post, in 1922. As far as the Arctic now, NASA had a press conference today, which sounds like it consisted mostly of moving the goal posts:
"Weather comes and goes, and it's the long term average that really matters," observed Josefino Comiso from Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center.
That's the explanation for the unusually cold winter in the Northern Hemisphere. So the ice is there, covering a "slightly larger" area than it did this time last year, BUT they say it's thinner now. When it's more ice it's weather, when it's less ice...global warming. HT: Ace