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• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic
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Quote of the Week: “It will, without doubt, have come to your Lordship’s knowledge that a considerable change of climate, inexplicable at present to us, must have taken place in the Circumpolar Regions, by which the severity of the cold that has for centuries past enclosed the seas in the high northern latitudes in an impenetrable barrier of ice, has been during the last two years greatly abated. This affords ample proof that new sources of warmth have been opened, and give us leave to hope that the Arctic Seas may at this time be more accessible than they have been for centuries past, and that discoveries may now be made in them, not only interesting to the advancement of science, but also to the future intercourse of mankind and the commerce of distant nations. ” Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society, on 20 November 1817 to their Lordships of the Admiralty. The referenced period covered the reduction of ice in the prior two years, one the infamous Year Without a Summer 1816. It was in the Dalton Solar Minimum, a time of unusual cold and snow in middle latitudes. [From ICECAP]