The Arctic ocean photographed in the same place, 107 years ago vs today.

air is probably cleaner now than it was then

I myself asked "What time of year was the lower photograph taken?" Then I realized I was being dumb, because if either photo was taken in winter time, we would see at least some ice in the water, if not a very large ice sheet.

ah to have seen the raw undisturbed beauty earth once had....

Notice the first guy is in a wooden boat and the second guy is in a boat most likely made out of some plastic-based fibers. 🤔

New real estate!

yeah but it's much more colorful now. that's good, isn't it?

Thank goodness they cleared out all that snow and ice so that we can finally see the pretty mountains.

crazy to think that guy has been on that boat for over 100 years

Wow, it looks so much prettier today. All thanks to climate improvement.

Facebook comments: Well obviously it was taken in the SUMMER 😂🤣😆 Morons global warming is all fear mongering!

Yes Jim. It's very normal that entire glaciers disappear, regularly in fact, every year. You are so smart, much smarter than all of the scientists who are panicking.

At least we got some space to build car centric suburbia, eh? /s

A reverse image search revealed to me that there are a hell of a lot of copies of this image around the internet, but I can't seem to find any papers that provide background. I'm going to have to look again later, but if there's any other internet sleuths out there interested in figuring out the origins of these photos with reputable explainers, I would love to know more about this.

I'm always afraid of things like this that seem to confirm my biases without associated information to back it...

Sure it was at the same time? Did the account for leap seconds?

Good luck, everyone. I genuinely hope you make it through as okay as you can.

That…. Is fucking tragic. There’s no going back to that. Ever.

This is wild 🫨

people 107 years ago loved sepia filters.

Revenge of the Titanic.

Well that's fuckin depressing

Oprah buying up development rights on the coastline there too?

I'm always disappointed when someone takes the time to try to reproduce an old photo but they miss by not having everything identical (wooden boat).

Then I'm more disappointed because that motorized boat is part of the problem that caused this tragedy.

IDK, maybe that was the point

What time of year in each photo?