Arctic Thaw May Bring Disaster

If the Antarctic ice regions and the major Greenland ice-cap should reduce at the same rate as at present, melting oceanic surfaces would rise to catastrophic proportions, and people living in the lowlands along the shores would be inundated

temperatures in the Arctic had increased by 10 degrees F. since 1900, and “enormous” rise from a scientific standpoint.

Waters in the Spitsbergen area, in the same period, had risen three to five degrees in temperature said Dr. Hans Ahlmann, noted Swedish geophysicist today at the University of California’s Geophysical Institute.

“The Arctic change is so serious that I hope an international agency can speedily be formed to study conditions on a global basis,” he said.