'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...observed last year that 2000 square leagues of ice, with which the Greenland seas...have been hitherto covered, has in the last two years entirely disappeared.'
Gee I thought it had never happened before. Maybe its a natural occurrence who'd a thought
