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Polar Ice
Caps Melt,
New York, Sunday.-Polar
Icecaps were melting at an
-astonishing rate, Dr. W. S
Carlson said.
The water from them
threatened to swamp sea-
ports by raising ocean levels,
he added. Dr. Carlson,
president of the University
of Vermont, is an expert on
the Arctic.
He was addressing the
Cleveland Medical Library
Association.
He said it would take hun-
dreds of years for the melt-
ing to have much effect, but
the rate in the last half-cen-
tury had been exceedingly
rapid.
"The glaciers of Norway
and Alaska are only half the
size they were 50 years ago"
he added.
"The temperature around
Spitsbergen has been so
modified that the time the
sea is free of ice has length-
ened from three to eight
months of the year."
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