Here's the NOAA page for the November 1922 MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW.
But hey, they're scientists...they don't know anything.
"The Arctic seems to be warming up. Reports from
fishermen, seal hunters, and explorers who sail the seas
about S itzbergen and the eastern Arctic, all point to
a radicaf change in climatic conditions, and hitherto unheard-
of high temperatures in that part of the earth's
surface.
In August, 1922, the Norwegian Departnient of Commerce
sent an expedition to Spitzber en and Bear Island
geology at the University of Christiania. Its purpose
was to survey and chart the lands adjacent to the
Nqrwegian niines on those islands, take soundings of the
ad] acent waters, and niake ot-her oceanographic. investigations.
Dr. Hoel, who has just returned, reports the location
of hitherto unknown coal de osits on the eastern shores
of Advent Bay-deposits or vast extent and superior
uality.%,This is regarded as of first importance, as so
?ar most of the coal mined by the Norwegian companies
on those islands has not been of the best quality.
The oceanographic observations have, however, been
even more iiiterestinm. Ice conditions were exce tional.
In fact, so little icexas never before been note!. The
expedition all but established a record, sailing as far
north its Sl0 29' in ice-free water. This is the farthest
north ever reached with modern oceanographic apparatus.
The character of the waters of the great polar basin
has heretofore been practically unknown. Dr. Hoel reports
that he made a section of the Gulf Stream at 81'
north latitude and took soundings to a depth of 3,100
meters. These show the Gulf Stream very warm, and it
could be traced as a surface current till beyond the 81st
parallel. The warmth of the waters makes it robable
time.
Later a section was taken of the Gulf Stream off Bear
Island and off the Isfjord, as well as a section of the cold
current that comes down along the west coast of Spitzbergen
off the south ca e.
to note the unusually warm summer in Arctic Norway
and the observations of Capt. Martin Ingebrigtsen, who
has sailed the eastern Arctic for 54 years past. He says
that he first noted wanner conditions in 1915, that since
that time it has steadily gotten warmer, and that to-day
the Arctic of that region is not recognizable as the same
re ion of 1865 to 1917.
%any old landniarks are so changed EW to be weco
nizltble. Where formerly great masses of ice were foun
there are now often moraines, accumlulations of earth and
stones."
http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/050/mwr-050-11-0589a.pdf
