Check out the top three stories on CNN’s web site
A team led by Ala Khazendar of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, found evidence of the ice shelf flowing faster and becoming more fragmented. The flow is creating large cracks in the ice shelf.
“These are warning signs that the remnant is disintegrating,” Khazendar said in a NASA press release. “Although it’s fascinating scientifically to have a front-row seat to watch the ice shelf becoming unstable and breaking up, it’s bad news for our planet.”
The collapse of the Larsen B Ice Shelf seems to have been caused by a series of warm summers on the Antarctic Peninsula, which happen during what in the Northern Hemisphere are winter months. Those trends built up to a particularly warm summer in 2002, according to NASA.
NASA: Antarctica’s Larsen B Ice Shelf to disappear – CNN.com
The breakup of Larsen B has little or nothing to do with global warming.
The 3200-square-kilometre Larsen B ice shelf broke apart between January and March 2002 following a series of warm summers, and after melt ponds had formed on the ice shelf. The abruptness of the break-up led many scientists to lay the blame squarely on climate change. “But the picture is much more complicated,” says Neil Glasser of Aberystwyth University in the UK.
When Glasser and Ted Scambos of the University of Colorado at Boulder – who has been tracking the increased movement of glaciers near the erstwhile Larsen B – reviewed satellite images from 1987 onwards, they saw giant rifts and crevasses created by long-term glaciological processes.
Sea ice around the Larsen Ice Shelves is at a record high.
The Antarctic Peninsula is the fastest cooling place on earth
Temperatures in the interior of Antarctica are incredibly cold.
As far as their other hysterical claims, they are also complete nonsense.
2015: The warmest first quarter on record
2 degrees: The most important number you’ve never heard of
According to our most accurate data source (satellites) the planet is not warming, and the last quarter was nowhere near the warmest on record. It was quite ordinary.
Why would CNN willfully choose to ignore the best sources of temperature data, and the best science about ice shelves? Their stories are based on the propaganda of a small handful of global warming hacks.
CNN makes Soviet Pravda look like honest reporting. They are pushing complete lies on the public.
“CNN makes Soviet Pravda look like honest reporting. They are pushing complete lies on the public.” ~ Goddard
That is a very true statement you make there Steve. I would add that all of the mainstream media in the US and other western countries are no better than the old Soviet Pravda. The mainstream media is a propaganda arm of the central government. One of the reasons for this is that we have a corporatist economic system. That name is the one that Benito Mussolini said would be a better name than using the term fascism.
We should keep the above in mind we we read anything in the newspapers or see it on TV.
It is worse now, but has been going on for some time as the following Mencken quote shows.
+10 candidate for Top 10 Best Quote
Ike’s warnings coming to fruition again and again.
He warned about
1) the military-industrial complex
2) A money driven environment in which government controls science
3) He was on the verge of, but fell short of warning about the news
media controlling public understanding of science and so much more.
Gen. Sherman said something to the effect that if a man is too lazy to work and too cowardly to steal, he becomes an editor.
Reblogged this on Climatism.
Is this still a question? I guess skepticism time has passed. Global warming is obvious and I see more and more people are sensing the impact of the climate change. I understood a lot about the way climate has changed in the past 150 years from http://www.1ocean-1climate.com.
Updated by David Roberts on May 15, 2015, 12:50 p.m. ET @drvox [email protected]
Steve go to above for more propaganda. The first chart is funny comparing apples and oranges.
Checked it out. It’s not vox populi, it’s more like pox politic.
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All part of the build up to UN COP21 in Paris in 6 months!
Imagine the panic we’d be seeing if we were living 12 thousand yrs ago.
It’s around the same as the panic we will be seeing when the next ice age starts. Burn fossil fuels now.
Exactly.
I’m so well informed by this site and everybody who participates here my comments elsewhere look very professional. My opponents sound like little children in their understanding.
Your gifts of using real-world data with which to employ the scientific method keeps on giving. Thank you. Thank you. Steve-Tony, you are doing plenty for “the truth(s)” on your “free” time.
At the same time, I continue to think that every time CNN’s name is used, its owners’ names should be mentioned. “They” are responsible for USA-Pravda and it is enraging. Two other statistics might come up every time, too. How many people watch CNN, as compared to, say Fox. (Not a whole lot of difference, but…) And how many people used to watch CNN compared to today’s audience. I think their stupidity/desire-for-omnipotent-control-of-people’s-minds comes at a great cost. Perhaps they don’t care because voter fraud has elections all sewn-up anyway.
It seems that as the mass media — run by crony corporation CEOs/international corporation CEOs — is getting stupider and stupider, they no longer convince.
From the 2nd CNN article regarding “record” temps:
“The warming trend has reduced snow coverage throughout the Northern hemisphere, especially reducing the amount of coverage in spring. ”
Wow.
on the next CNN page- this one is a whopper-
“On the other end of the globe — in the Antarctic — sea ice has been on the gain, and this year, it hit a record March high.
But globally, the overall result is a big net loss”
Do you get any direct grief from the likes of CNN over this sort of stuff, Steve? You must be driving them all ever so slightly mad.
I wish it could be avoided, but regretfully, formal charges of TREASON may have to be filed against the US National Academy of Sciences for:
1. Deceiving Congress about the primary source of energy in the Sun, and
2. Abusing Congressional trust to review budgets of federal research agencies for Congress
Otherwise the US NAS and federal research agencies may not admit: Neutron Repulsion is the source of energy that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 & 9 Aug 1945 and the main source of energy in cores of all atoms heavier than ~150 amu (atomic mass units), some planets, ordinary stars and galaxies.
Stalin apparently emerged victorious from WWII during a news blackout of Aug-Sept 1945 events that changed the course of world history [1] and convinced world leaders to unite nations (UN) and national academies of science (NAS) into a worldwide Ministry of Consensus Science Truths on 24 Oct 1945 to forbid knowledge of neutron repulsion in cores of heavy atoms, some planets, ordinary stars and galaxies.
Thanks to brave actions by a nuclear geochemist in Aug 1945 [2] – Dr. Kazuo Kuroda – the worldwide plan to block public knowledge of the source of energy in cores of heavy atoms, some planets, ordinary stars and galaxies has failed [3].
References:
1. “ASTON’s WARNING (Dec 1922); CHAOS & FEAR (Aug-Sept 1945)”
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10640850/CHAOS_and_FEAR_August_1945.pdf
2. BBC News Report on Japan’s missing atomic bomb secrets (2002) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2170881.stm
3. “Solar energy,” Advances in Astronomy (submitted 1 Sept 2014) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10640850/Solar_Energy.pdf or
“Solar Energy for teachers”
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10640850/Supplement.pdf
Does anyone know if there are any bookmakers taking bets on this? I fancy having 10€ on it still being there in 2021.
I’d bet the house on it still being there. Here’s some 1980s predictions about 2020 from the warmist loons:
“A billion people could die from global warming by 2020.” -John Holdren, Obama’s current Science Czar, 1986 http://spectator.org/blog/17695/dr-doom
Flashback 1988: [lead IPCC author] Michael Oppenheimer Warn Seas to Surge 83 Feet Inland by 2020
CNN taking aim, ammunition courtesy of NASA.
Proof that Pravda currently has more integrity than CNN.
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/19-11-2012/122849-obama_soviet_mistake-0/
There is record ice, but it is melting at a record rate. Something does not add up at all!!
“Why would CNN willfully choose to ignore the best sources of temperature data, and the best science about ice shelves?”
Because they are a tool of the government. They do what they’re told.
Regretfully, there seems to be no other explanation other than willful intent to deceive the public.
May 13th 2015: Record Antarctic ice hampers research scientists:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/05/record_antarctic_ice_hampers_research_scientists.html
May 11th: Antarctica Has So Much Sea Ice Scientists Have Trouble Getting There: http://dailycaller.com/2015/05/11/antarctica-has-so-much-sea-ice-scientists-have-trouble-getting-there/
And this from NASA’s former Chief Scientist in 1988:
“[in twenty years (2008)] the West Side Highway [and thus much of Manhattan] will be under water.” -James Hansen, 1988, NASA http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/10/22/a-little-known-but-failed-20-year-old-climate-change-prediction-by-dr-james-hansen/
10,000 year old ice shelf. If they claimed a 30,000, or a 50,000 year old ice shelf (well . . it would still seem natural to most of us . . but) was disappearing, it would at least be worthy of a discussion.
So, are they suggesting that this ice shelf formed after the end of the last great ice age?
CNN is a stinking hell hole of progressive madness and self-fulfillment.
The entire operation and staff should be locked up in the secure section of a mental institution.
Steel doors, no windows, wrapped straitjackets and 5000 ppm of Co2.
Shouldn’t Antarctica be punished for its “Crimes Against Humanity” by encouraging anti-Warmists with confusing evidence?
“….One after another
Threats of doom and disaster;
More and more propaganda,
Spewed out faster and faster…..”
Read more: http:///wp.me/p3KQlH-DG
How does an ice sheet “collapse” if it’s surrounded by ice?? 🙂
Here’s the photograph: http://www.avinu.info/grace-and-favor/melting-polar-caps/
This is a rigged, three sided FAKE debate and two sides are WRONG. See
“Four Known Scientific Ways Carbon Dioxide Cools Earth’s Climate” at Principia-scientific.org
“Greenhouse Gas Ptolemaic Model” and “Lukewarm Lemmings and the Lysenko Larceny”
both at FauxScienceSlayer site, topic of Coast-to-Coast, 18 Mar 2014 on +600 radio stations.
Maybe it breaks up because more snow and ice builds up inland and pushes it out.
If no ice breaks out we could have some change going on, but ice breaking up is normal.
Just a laymans thaught.