Sixty years ago, the New York Times predicted an ice-free Arctic and ships sailing over the North Pole within a generation.

TimesMachine: October 19, 1958 – NYTimes.com

Fifty years ago, they predicted an ice-free Arctic by 1989, with catastrophic shifts in the climate.

Expert Says Arctic Ocean Will Soon Be an Open Sea – Catastrophic Shifts in Climate Feared

It is now July, and there are no ships traversing the Arctic. Perhaps the ship captains forgot to read the New York Times.

MarineTraffic: Global Ship Tracking Intelligence | AIS Marine Traffic

via The Deplorable Climate Science Blog

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July 5, 2019 at 11:01AM