Global warming in the Arctic

The Washington Post (Associated Press) printed the following scientific observations as reported by Dr. Adolf Hoel:

"The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consul Ifft, at Bergen, Norway.

Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers, he declared, all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met with as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm.
Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared. Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts, which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds."

So there we have it; first hand reporting by a scientist of the disastrous impact of global warming. Could the warming be caused by the excessive amount of carbon dioxide that we are now producing? Certainly, based upon what the media reports as "settled" science! Should this make believers out of the "deniers" ? Perhaps, except that the source report of the Washington Post article on changes in the arctic is in the Monthly Weather Review for November 1922. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/03/16/you-ask-i-provide-november-2nd-1922-arctic-ocean-getting-warm-seals-vanish-and-icebergs-melt/ That report came out before the more recent scientific concern about global cooling which has been followed by the current scientific concern about global warming. Now it's the polar bears (whose population is actually increasing) rather than the seals for which the arctic is too hot.