Climate change science, not hype
The NASA press release said that this happens about every 153 years, and that this event was right on schedule. The author of this article chose to intentionally mislead the readers of the Los Angeles Times. He should be publicly humiliated and fired.
NASA. Once the pride of a nation.
NASA should read this one:
“Global warming is predicted to have a profound impact on the Greenland Ice Sheet and its contribution to global sea-level rise. Recent mass loss in the northwest of Greenland has been substantial. Using aerial photographs, we produced digital elevation models and extended the time record of recent observed marginal dynamic thinning back to the mid-1980s. We reveal two independent dynamic ice loss events on the northwestern Greenland Ice Sheet margin: from 1985 to 1993 and 2005 to 2010, which were separated by limited mass changes. Our results suggest that the ice mass changes in this sector were primarily caused by short-lived dynamic ice loss events rather than changes in the surface mass balance. This finding challenges predictions about the future response of the Greenland Ice Sheet to increasing global temperatures. ”
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/337/6094/569.abstract?sid=40703fa2-9462-4ea7-8aea-c7d23fb8e50d
It is truly amazing what 2 hours of 35 degree weather was able to do.
LA Times is on life support and WaPo has now joined it. Very hard to stop the bleeding if you keep slicing your own wrists like these people do.
The L.A. Times is well known as the West Coast Warmer Wag (Elmer Fudd voice there); why would they fire someone for upholding corporate policy?
Bruce (above) is right – the MSM continue to self-tighten the noose they put around their own necks. Oxygen deprivation is the only plausible answer to “Why do these fools continue to sabotage their own bottom line?”