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Wednesday, February 17, 2021

"The penguins don't get it"

 Source:
 
"Back in December there were lurid headlines about “World’s largest iceberg on collision course with penguin colony island”.

And of course climate change was to blame because the iceberg, A68a, had broken off the Antarctic Peninsula, “one of the fastest-warming places on Earth, reaching a record high temperature of nearly 70 degrees Fahrenheit last February.

 Ice melt and collapse in the region will inevitably lead to disastrous higher sea levels worldwide.”

What really happened was it missed.

It used to be the case that unusual heat was climate change while unusual cold was just weather.

But then unusual cold became proof of runaway warming because of the supposed disruption of the jet stream that sent polar vortices screaming south because of climate change.

... Or whatever.

... the iceberg that was going to kill the penguins broke off in 2017 and caromed around frightening headline writers three years later because didn’t melt in between because Antarctica isn’t just very cold, it actually “has not warmed in the last seven decades, despite a monotonic increase in the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases.”

But that’s just the facts, ma’am.


In alarmist-land, a vast piece of ice is proof of a warming apocalypse."