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February 23, 2009 Media Credibility, Not Ice Caps, In Meltdown

By Peter C Glover

[FONT=times new roman,times]Eco-warriors and media hype aside, the fact is, as we head into 2009, that the world's ice mass has been expanding not contracting. Which will surprise evening news junkies fed a diet of polar bears floating about on ice floes and snow shelves falling into the oceans. But if a whole series of reports on ice growth in the Arctic, the Antarctic and among glaciers are right, then it is truth in the mainstream media (MSM) that's in meltdown not the polar ice caps. [/FONT]

[FONT=times new roman,times]The problem for the MSM is that it long ago nailed its colors to the climate alarmist mast. No ice cap meltdown, no rising waters. No disappearing islands, no reason for alarm. No alarm, no story. Worst of all having called yet another global apocalypse wrong: No credibility. So the MSM has a significant stake in running highly selective warm-mongering headlines. Not to mention disparaging those scientists who have the temerity to disagree as [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]'holocaust deniers[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]' and 'pseudo-scientists'. [/FONT]

[FONT=times new roman,times]There's nothing more the climate alarmist media loves than a 'melting Arctic' ice cap story. So why not stories from the far larger expanse of ice that is the 'melting' Antarctic? Well it might have something to do with the fact that the Antarctic ice grew to record levels in 2007 - and continues to grow. [/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]The Antarctic[/FONT]

[FONT=times new roman,times]"The media has ignored the increase in Antarctica sea ice cover in recent years, with at present, a coverage that is one million square kilometres above average." [/FONT]

[FONT=times new roman,times]Full Article here [/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/02/media_credibility_not_ice_caps_1.html[/FONT]

It's pretty tough to "melt" the Antartic away, since it's the 5th largest continent. Wouldn't make a good news story.
If in fact it has more ice then normally, it wouldn't make any global issues.

Everything is debatable, I guess.
But, we get much more news about it here, since we have Inuits (people and citizens) living there (up north), that see major climate changes in thier short live times.

 

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It's pretty tough to "melt" the Antartic away, since it's the 5th largest continent. Wouldn't make a good news story.
If in fact it has more ice then normally, it wouldn't make any global issues.

Everything is debatable, I guess.
But, we get much more news about it here, since we have Inuits (people and citizens) living there (up north), that see major climate changes in thier short live times.

The link to the rest of the article covers that

 

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Links to opinion pieces, like Glover's, hardly refute scientific articles.

If you'd care to quote from peer reviewed scientific articles that support your ideas, go right ahead.

Try some thing like this:

Professor John Turner of BAS, lead author of the paper published in the Geophysical Research Letters journal, said the results underlined the complexity of climate change.

He said: "While there is increasing evidence that the loss of sea ice in the Arctic has occurred due to human activity, in the Antarctic human influence through the ozone hole has had the reverse effect and resulted in more ice.

"Although the ozone hole is in many ways holding back the effects of greenhouse gas increases on the Antarctic, this will not last, as we expect ozone levels to recover by the end of the 21st Century.

"By then there is likely to be around one third less Antarctic sea ice."