Postcards from the future | Grist

U.K. artists Robert Graves and Didier Madoc-Jones kept hearing discussion and conjecture about how violent climatic changes would disrupt their world. But they couldn't envision what it would look like. So they started researching and created a set of "Postcards from the Future" portraying a future London transformed by floods, harsher winters (because of a Gulf Stream slow-down), and fiercer storms.

The illustrations also show human responses -- climate refugees encamped in Trafalgar Square and outside Buckingham Palace, wind turbines in Piccadilly Circus, and tidal turbines in the Thames River. They show rice paddies in Parliament Square and palm-oil production in Hyde Park as responses to drought and crop disruptions.

The New Norm in the Arctic: Change - NYTimes.com

Federal scientists have issued an Arctic “report card” driving home the reality that the frigid, untouchable Arctic etched in human history and lore is truly history, replaced by a region that is seeing long-term warming, reductions in sea ice and glaciers and shifts in ecosystems (not to mention intensifying economic activity).

You ask, I provide. November 2nd, 1922. Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt. | Watts Up With That?

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.