Quote:LAT Ice Free

❝ a general warming trend over the North Pole is melting the polar ice cap and may produce an ice-free Arctic Ocean by the year 2000 ❞ ~ Los Angles Times ℹ️ May 16, 1972

Full Quote: Arctic specialist Bernt Balchen says a general warming trend over the North Pole is melting the polar ice cap and may produce an ice-free Arctic Ocean by the year 2000

The LAT reported it in 1972, but NYT said the same thing a few years earlier.

• https://www.nytimes.com/1969/02/20/archives/expert-says-arctic-ocean-will-soon-be-an-open-sea-catastrophic.html