I’m temporarily an expert on Lincoln Ellsworth’s Antarctica Expeditions; his ship, the WYATT EARP, was in the news continuously during the period of Ellsworth’s expeditions, 1933-39. So aside from the constant mentions of Wyatt Earp, whose wife Josephine Earp is the subject of my next book, my eye was caught by an unexpected mention of how the Antarctic ice conditions were changing as a result of global warming.
Ellsworth saw this with his own eyes, but also references a study from the Soviet Academic of Sciences, which presented data showing that the Arctic region, “and perhaps the whole world, was becoming warmer” and quotes Professor Berg of the Soviet Academy who asked, “Are we witnessing the approach of such an epoch…or have we to do here with a climactic fluctuation, the period of which is only decades. No answer as yet can be given.”
ELLSWORTH SAYS DATA OF YEARS SHOW ANTARCTIC IS STEADILY GETTING WARMER
New York Times, December 14, 1938, page 27.
I’m just sayin’……
Wyatt Earp was Ellsworth’s hero. I have a letter from Mary Louise (Ulmer) Ellsworth where she talks about that connection and that Lincoln met Mrs Earp