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== Ice caps ==
== Ice caps ==
*In 1931, the Times Union expressed concern over a seemingly smaller number of icebergs than reported 20 years earlier.<ref>https://www.newspapers.com/clip/76865712/climate-change/</ref> This has been proven to be a fallible metric for determining actual loss of glacial ice due to raw numbers of glaciers not providing any information in the physical amount of ice dispersed among the icebergs.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-climate-change/fact-check-comparisons-of-glacier-counts-are-not-a-reliable-indicator-of-climate-change-idUSL1N2RV20T</ref>
*In 1934, the New Castle News of New Castle, Pennsylvania, claimed that Alaska's [[permafrost]] was receding away from the south.<ref>https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36628652/new-castle-news-new-castle-pa-7-feb/</ref> In 2008, surveyors found that 85% of the state was still completely covered in permafrost, and that only the most southern parts of the state, as well as some inland moving rivers had land that was not frozen the entire year.<ref>https://dggs.alaska.gov/hazards/permafrost.html</ref>
*In 1934, the New Castle News of New Castle, Pennsylvania, claimed that Alaska's [[permafrost]] was receding away from the south.<ref>https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36628652/new-castle-news-new-castle-pa-7-feb/</ref> In 2008, surveyors found that 85% of the state was still completely covered in permafrost, and that only the most southern parts of the state, as well as some inland moving rivers had land that was not frozen the entire year.<ref>https://dggs.alaska.gov/hazards/permafrost.html</ref>
*In 1972, Bernt Balchen predicted that the Arctic would be ice-free by the year 2000.<ref>https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110868583/north-pole/</ref>
*In 1972, Bernt Balchen predicted that the Arctic would be ice-free by the year 2000.<ref>https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110868583/north-pole/</ref>