Newspapers mislead
their readers by reporting
every unusual weather event,
as if that was scientific proof
of a coming climate change
catastrophe ... that's been
predicted since the 1970s,
but never shows up:
The Telegraph newspaper
stated, on August 1, 2019:
"The glacier-covered island
( Greenland )
is experiencing record-breaking
temperatures which rose to 22C.
on August 1, 15C. above the average
rate. On that same day, the severe heat
caused Greenland to lose 12.5 billion
tons of ice, a staggeringly large amount
even by Arctic standards."
Here's what The Telegraph
did NOT tell their readers,
but should have:
(1)
Greenland ice cap
contains an estimated
2,600,000,000,000,000
tonnes of ice,
( 2,600,000 billion ),
so the loss
of 12 billion tonnes,
on one unusually hot day
in August 2019,
is a very small
percentage
of the total.
(2)
The Greenland ice cap
typically loses about
200 billion tonnes of ice
every summer.
That gets replaced by
over 500 billion tonnes
from snow falling every winter.
This gain in surface mass
is reduced when edges
of the glaciers break off
( aka "calving" )
(3)
2019's summer melt was
slightly higher than normal,
but much less than in 2012.
(4)
Summers in 2017 and 2018
had well below average melting.
Misleading Greenland Ice Mass Chart:
Honest Greenland Ice Mass Chart:
