Editor’s note: An update from the author has been added to this article on September 20, 2012.
Antarctic sea ice set another record this past week, with the most amount of ice ever recorded
on day 256 of the calendar year (September 12 of this leap year).
Please, nobody tell the mainstream media or they might have to retract
some stories and admit they are misrepresenting scientific data.
National Public Radio (NPR) published an article
on its website last month claiming, “Ten years ago, a piece of ice the
size of Rhode Island disintegrated and melted in the waters off
Antarctica. Two other massive ice shelves along the Antarctic Peninsula
had suffered similar fates a few years before. The events became poster
children for the effects of global warming. … There’s no question that
unusually warm air triggered the final demise of these huge chunks of
ice.”
NPR failed to mention anywhere in its article that Antarctic sea ice has been growing since satellites first began measuring the ice 33 years ago and the sea ice has been above the 33-year average throughout 2012.
Indeed, none of the mainstream media are covering this important story. A Google
News search of the terms Antarctic, sea ice and record turns up not a
single article on the Antarctic sea ice record. Amusingly, page after
page of Google News results for Antarctic sea ice record show links to
news articles breathlessly spreading fear and warning of calamity
because Arctic sea ice recently set a 33-year low.
Sea ice around one pole is shrinking while sea ice around another
pole is growing. This sure sounds like a global warming crisis to me.
More at
forbes.com
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