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...sardines, considered warm-water fish, are now being caught in the North Sea. Dr. Günther Böhnecke, the institute's chief, suspects that the fish have extended their range northward because the North Sea, like many other parts of the Northern Hemisphere, is slowly growing warmer...
...other side of the Atlantic the climate is growing warmer too, but the mild winters of the past decade are not the only result. Last week Jerome Namias of the U.S. Weather Bureau told a New York meeting of the American Meteorological Society that the warming of the climate may be what steers more hurricanes toward the U.S. East Coast...
...recent years, Dr. Namias explained, the planetary current over North America has changed its behavior. Its waves have shifted in a way that brings more air from the Atlantic Ocean and less from Canada. Since ocean air is warmer in winter than Canadian air, the change makes the winters milder along the Atlantic coast...
...Brook said that New England weather has become slightly warmer in the last few years. But when asked if New England weather were particularly erratic, he replied, "I guess you have never been to Chicago...
...summer's work with elaborate apparatus in a prefabricated laboratory did not solve the mystery; it added another mystery. Dr. Scholander found that arctic fish which live in the slightly warmer water at the surface will freeze solid if they are chilled in surface experiments to the temperature prevailing at the bottom. But when such fish were actually lowered into the cold depths, they did not freeze. Most of them were alive and active when hoisted back to the surface...