News Round-Up
7 May 2024
We're bombarded by news of Arctic ice melting at an alarming rate and the world being on fire, but the data tell a very different story, says Chris Morrison.
"The polar-bear capital of the world is simply getting too warm for polar bears," the BBC claimed recently. But this is not true, says polar bear expert Susan Crockford.
Arctic summer sea ice stopped declining a decade ago, but scientists have hidden this fact and the mainstream media never report it because it contradicts the official Net Zero narrative.
When global sea ice dropped sharply 10 years ago, there was no end of stories of the coming climate catastrophe. But the more recent dramatic recovery in sea ice has gone strangely unmentioned and ignored.
Whisper it quietly, but the Greenland ice sheet may have made a net gain in size in the year to August 2022 after another year of massive winter gains and a short summer of ice loss.
A bizarre 'fact check' from AFP accepts that Arctic summer sea ice has increased since 2012, but then says it is 'misleading' to report such an inconvenient fact.
In a major challenge to climate alarmism, climate scientists have shown that Greenland ice has recovered since 2012 and the earlier loss was due to “natural variability" not human CO2 emissions.
Attenborough's doom-laden Frozen Planet II picked a group of islands lapped by a warm and salty current to push the Arctic sea ice loss narrative. The good news is the polar bears are thriving.
David Attenborough predicted that all the summer sea ice in the Arctic would be gone within 12 years unless we mend our ways. But Arctic sea ice has increased in the past 10 years.
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