It’s easy to wonder if the sheer volume of panic being spread on the issue of climate change is a conspiracy. But it doesn’t have to be a conspiracy to be this pervasive, it just has to fit the world view of a critical mass of special interests.
The BBC, which in September 2018 announced its decision to censor any reports by climate skeptics, continues to propagandize for climate alarmists. On March 12, BBC “Science Correspondent” Jonathan Amos published an alarming article entitled “Greenland and Antarctica ice loss accelerating.” According to Amos, “Earth’s great ice sheets, Greenland and Antarctica, are now losing mass six times faster than they were in the 1990s thanks to warming conditions.”
The BBC was not alone, of course. Generic journalist NPCs around the world ran with the story. The Guardian’s version came with a predictably terrifying subhead: “Losses of ice from Greenland and Antarctica are tracking the worst-case climate scenario, scientists warn.” USA Today offered its version on March 16, with a story headlined, “Greenland and Antarctica are now melting six times faster than in the 1990s, accelerating sea-level rise.”
The source of these dire statistics was a report in the journal Nature, published late last year and released online on March 12. The key findings were summarized by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and come down to certain quantitative assertions that invite skeptical analysis.
Perhaps the most alarming sounding statistic was the following, quoting from NASA/JPL:
The two regions [Greenland and Antarctica] have lost 6.4 trillion tons of ice in three decades; unabated, this rate of melting could cause flooding that affects hundreds of millions of people by 2100.
This sounds like a lot of ice, “6.4 trillion tons.” But it’s not. This equates to 6,400 billion tons, which may also be referred to as 6,400 gigatons, which is 6,400 cubic kilometers. That would be an ice cube 18.5 kilometers on a side, or, to revert to the imperial system of measures, an ice cube 11.5 miles on a side. If you dropped this ice cube in the world’s oceans and let it melt, it would raise the level of the oceans by 18 millimeters—that’s 9/16ths of one inch.
How horrible.
To focus on Antarctica, the report in Nature claimed Antarctica is losing, in recent years, 190 gigatons of ice per year, an amount that supposedly portends an ominous future for coastal cities around the world. But the total ice mass of Antarctica is generally estimated at 26.5 million gigatons. This means that the participating scientists claim they can observe a change in the total ice mass of Antarctica of one seven millionths per year. You can’t even make an easily comprehensible fraction for an amount this infinitesimal. Expressed using decimals, it’s .000007. . . . Full Story - Edward Ring - American Greatness
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Climate Change has been very lucrative for Al Gore. Gore and business partner David Blood, onetime CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, co-founded Generation Investment Management (GIM). In a few short years they had produced nearly $218 million in profits. Gore used $35 million of this to invest with Capricorn Investment Group founded by Canadian billionaire Jeffrey Skoll, who was part of the team that produced 'An Inconvenient Truth', the Global warming propaganda flick, rife with inconvenient errors and distortions. This cinematic trash won 1. A Nobel Prize 2. An Oscar and 3. Grammy.
The former vice president's global warming activism has helped increase his net worth from $700,000 in 2000 to an estimated net worth of $172.5 million by 2015.
In An Inconvenient Truth Gore predicted that ice melt would lead to coastal flooding and that Manhattan could eventually be submerged. In 1998 he predicted that the 'entire North Polar ice cap' could be gone in five years. Lets see now, for any intellectually challenged liberals, it is now 2017 and another of his bogus predictions are not even close to fruition, the only thing that's all wet is Al Gore and anyone dumb enough to fall in line behind him. In fact there is evidence that the Arctic ice is thicker than it has been in 75 years Read More
