List Members,
Gardner's book, A JOURNEY TO THE EARTH'S INTERIOR, mentions one of the
earliest observations that started people wondering about Polar warming,
wondering which ultimately led to thoughts about the opening to the hollow
Earth.
From page 107:
WITHIN FIVE AND A HALF DEGREES
OF THE POLE
But Barrington has some other very interesting observations. He quotes a
memorandum from the Astronomer Royal of England to the effect that a Mr.
Stephens, sailing on a Dutch ship in 1754, was driven into latitude 8 1/2 or
within 5 1/2 degrees of the pole. They " did not find the cold excessive,
and used little more than common clothing; met with but little ice, and the
less the farther they went to the Northward. . . It is always clear weather
with a North wind, and thick weather with a Southerly wind. . . Says he has
often tasted the ice when the sea water has been let to run or dry off of
it, and always found it fresh."
The author then goes on to cite many instances of warm weather near the
poles- warmer weather in fact than the observers had experienced at points
many degrees further south. He sums up by saying:
"All our accounts agree that in very high latitudes there is less ice."