My local alternate weekly in Chico has a “Green Guide”. This week’s lead story was “Scientists break ice in Greenland”. There’s only one problem.
They included a picture of Antarctica with the story.
While also an island of ice like Greenland, there’s extra points deducted for juxtaposing Antarctica with the word “Arctic” in the story.
I find it all hemispherically hilarious. I know geography is hard, but please, do try harder. Google Earth is always helpful at finding those pesky out of the way places you’ve never visited.
UPDATE: To be fair and thorough, I decided to swim upstream into the news feed current to their cited source the “Environmental News Network” to see what map they provided, just in case the map error originated there. ENN had it right and showed Greenland, though they did mention Antarctica in the first sentence talking about the two largest ice sheets on Earth.
source: http://www.enn.com/sci-tech/article/41614
UPDATE2:
About 18 hours after I first published this, the Chico News and Review took out the picture of Antarctica from the online edition, though it remains of course in the print edition.
I think that ice core must be a lot more than 1.58 miles long if it was drilled from the island shown in the picture. Although how the ice survived the “millions of degrees” centigrade core of the earth I don’t know. Even Al Gore would have been right to think that the earth’s core would have melted it a bit.
/sarc off. Tongue out of cheek.
Whose tongue and whose cheek I would rather not say 😉
1.58 miles, huh. It’s going to need to get really, really warm in a hurry if that much ice is going to melt in the next few years. Hmmm.
JP,
Like this.
The God’s chariots must have burned a lot of oil-based fuel. If one believes the Summarian tablets and Zacharia Stitchin’s accounts of ancient “Gods” coming in fiery chariots from the skies.
It reminds me of my problems. I need to lower my expections a lot so they have a chance at meeting them.
Is it possible with the weight of 1.58 miles of ice that they (greenie weenies) believe the weight may tip the island if it doesn’t melt?
Tectonic plates move more quickly than thought, possibly caused by CO2 and global warming.
I hope the ship/helicopter pick-up crew didn’t go to the wrong place. You can tell he’s a new reporter and hasn’t been told that today’s temps are at unprecedented highs. I guess we skeptics have to take what we can get in the straight goods about climate science. He’ll get a shot of Greenland in a follow-up article on Antarctica.
Probably one of the 57 states…..
Given the way they are calibrating the isotope data from Greenland, they will find it was 5C to 6C warmer in Greenland during the Eemian interglacial. (Technically, they might find it far warmer than that because a large amount of the glacier melted (it would be difficult for that amount of ice to melt if Richard Alley’s -30C to -55C temperature estimate for the Greenland summit during the past 100,000 years is correct – let’s go back to the relatively long interglacial 450,000 years ago and the southern third of Greenland was semi-forested .
CO2 levels? 270 ppm to 280 ppm in both periods so it wasn’t caused by CO2.
This new (never before seen) image of Greenland will probably end up in the new IPCC reports. Someone better tell Steve McIntyre.
Actually, when you’re on the ground (or even 5 miles up) it does look the same. Picky! Picky! Picky!
Let it be! Let it be!
Oooooooooooooooooooooooh!
Oooooooooooooooooooooooh!
Oooooooooooooooo0ooooooh!
Let it be!
So typical.
An Inconvenient Truth featured (on movie posters/etc) a clockwise flow into a ‘menacing’ cyclone–which only occurs in the Southern Hemisphere–where vastly fewer people would be affected by AGW/growth in cyclone intensity. These people never let the truth get in the way of a good story, and all too often are woefully ignorant of geography, history, meteorology, etc.
Oldshedite says: “Life’s especially hard if your a woolly mammoth with nowhere to go…”: “Woolly mammoth killed off by climate change”
Yeah, but the Telegraph also said the mammoths caused that climate change in the first place, so it’s only fair!
“Mammoths contributed to global warming with methane emissions”
http://tinyurl.com/27ksynj
“…when the Earth’s temperatures were two to three degrees Fahrenheit warmer than today…”
Wow! I thought the CAGW brigade thought today’s warming was ‘unprecedented’ – now who’s a fool!
At least there were no pictures of cute and cuddly polar bears adrift on the floe. The science is advancing in some respects. We should be grateful for this small step at least.
This is typical of their facts being wrong. But that does not matter as long as they have good intentions. The fact that the greens ideas have cost billions in tax dollars and bad research and investments and laws should be of no concern to anyone in a coma.
This guy: http://www.thegreengrok.com
has been in Greenland this summer. He is a piece of work….
Steve in SC says:
August 18, 2010 at 5:59 am
“Probably one of the 57 states…..”
You win!
From: Bill Tuttle on August 18, 2010 at 4:21 am
(emphasis added)
Wait a minute…
Nah, I think Bill wins. Did anyone actually COUNT the vowels??
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Bill Tuttle says:
August 18, 2010 at 4:21 am
Both islands? Check.
Both ice-covered? Check.
Both “Antarctica” and “Greenland” contain three vowels? Check.
Close enough. Run with it…
ROM: August 18, 2010 at 5:27 am
Everybody knows that the south is at the top of the map and here is the evidence to prove it!
Aha — another fan of The Heterodyne Boys And The Dash To The East Pole…
JP: August 18, 2010 at 5:24 am
Some Australian maps have south at the top of the map.
Conflicted much?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McsWKczU6wc&fs=1&hl=en_US]
kadaka (KD Knoebel): August 18, 2010 at 7:33 am
Wait a minute…
What? I smoothed between the “c”‘s in Antarctica…
@kadaka (KD Knoebel):
Are you suggesting that “Antarctica” does not contain three vowels?
Clearly, it does. It contains three instances of “a”, which is a vowel. That its total vowel content is four does not make it somehow not contain three vowels. In fact, it demands it. For the statement “the word ‘Antarctica’ contains three vowels”
to be false, “Antarctica” would have to contain two or fewer vowels.
Ahh, cr@p, my comment was in moderation when KD beat me by 2 minutes….