1940 Shock News: Greenland Glaciers Melting At Catastrophic Rates — ‘It would not be exaggerating to say that these glaciers were nearing a catastrophe’
'The melting had increased rapidly. By far the largest number of local glaciers in north-east Greenland had receded very greatly during recent decades, and it would not be exaggerating to say that these glaciers were nearing a catastrophe.'