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.
Wow! That must be REALLY rotten ice at the bottom….
And a question: as most of Greenland is NOT in the “Arctic” and they are not drilling in “Arctic ice”, they’re @ur momisugly 77.45°N 51.06°W – 200 miles NE of Baffin Bay – a LONG way away from… and as “Arctic” ice is NOT on land, how would studying a Greenland ice core, created mostly by snow fall, tell us anything about Arctic ice, created mostly by water freezing? Hey, I’m just asking….
And Anthony, if you’re thinking about posting more weather/climate gaffes/idiocy from the Sacramento News & Review, (and I’m not saying it’s a bad idea) you better start a new blog site because that is going to take up a lot of space and time.
uppyn says: August 18, 2010 at 4:09 am
Interesting to observe that they actually found ice from a period when it was 2 to 3 degrees warmer than today. Shouldn’t it all have melted?
Do I have to explain everything?
It did, but we had an ice age in between then and now, and it refroze.
Sheesh.
JP at 5:24 am , ROM at 5:27 am
Guys, when reading those maps in Australia, south is still at the bottom.
Here’s the true map of Texas – http://bigthink.com/ideas/21224
It correctly shows that El Paso, Texas is closer to San Diego, California than it is to Beaumont, Texas.
Regards,
Mike in Houston, webmaster for Melbourne
http://www.aussiecon4.org.au/
“The NEEM team is composed of more than 300 ice-core scientists from 14 nations.”
Wow, I seriously doubt the world needs 300 ice core scientists from 14 nations wasting taxpayers $$$ on this study in greenland. You would think at least one of them would have been able to distinguish Antarctica from Greenland.
jcl says: August 18, 2010 at 7:35 am
. . . Both “Antarctica” and “Greenland” contain three vowels? Check.
a, i, and e.
That’s three.
I thought it met the standards of a grey paper quite nicely.
Homer says:
Lisa, Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos. ( and Greenland!)
Astounding.
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Steve in SC says:
August 18, 2010 at 5:59 am
Probably one of the 57 states…..
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Obama was talking about the 57 NATION states in the new world of Global Governance.
He just got his teleprompter notes mixed up. Those notes were for AFTER he and his buddies, Al Gore and Maurice Strong rearrange the world into a one world government.
(I hope this is sarcasm….)
To quote MW 2010, “We assume that the data selection, collection, and
processing performed by climate scientists meets the standards of their discipline.”
QED
Clearly a product of Chico State’s geography department.
New term from the alarmists: Greenland is now Antarctica.
You’ve got to remember that these are just simple journalists. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know…
Seriously, the guy who wrote the article is probably NOT the same guy who selected the picture. Different department.
Here it comes the guy who will root up weeds…
“As I watched in sorrow, there suddenly appeared
A figure gray and ghostly beneath a flowing beard
In times of deepest darkness, I’ve seen him dressed in black
Now my tapestry’s unraveling, he’s come to take me back
He’s come to take me back”
Carole King “Tapestry”
Phil Jones said, regarding peer review:
I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow—even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!
Despite being caught suppressing data, Jones’ dishonesty is not abated one jot. After stepping down from his position at CRU, he went to Nature magazine and said this:
I don’t think we should be taking much notice of what’s on blogs because they seem to be hijacking the peer-review process.
Yes, Phil, it is blogs that are the problem. If you get caught with your pants down, point to the other guy and tug at his trousers.
Now, Nature also publishes many physics papers, acting as a mouthpiece for the standard model, so my analogy between climate science and physics is not a long reach
http://milesmathis.com/phycor.html
You didn’t get it, I just did it: That is AFTER the flip-flop of the poles!
I suspect the hand of a geographically knowledgeable editor who needed to fill some white space. Antarctica is much bigger than Greenland so a picture of Antarctica will fill up much more of that white space than a picture of Greenland, and the type of people who would notice the difference are not the CN&R’s main audience.
The answer is always to spend more on public education, no matter what you see here.
CALIFORNIA
$7,511 per student, plus 44% unreported spending** by state gov’ts = @10,000 per student
**Source: “To document the phenomenon, this paper reviews district budgets and state records for the nation’s five largest metro areas and the District of Columbia. It reveals that, on average, per-pupil spending in these areas is 44 percent higher than officially reported.” Cato Institute
Remember these are the people that were brought up with the meme that everyone gets the same prize in a contest so no one’s self esteem is hurt.
Most in the media should steer away from reporting on climare-related issues and stick to things they understand like Lady Gaga and Lindsey Lohan…
Re: My local alternate weekly in Chico has a “Green Guide”.
“Alternate weekly”, does that mean it is the alternative to intelligent, alternative to educated, or alternative to serious journalism?
Scratch that last bit, when it comes to “serious journalism” CN&R is second only to the defunct Chico Beat.
David: August 18, 2010 at 12:08 pm
Scratch that last bit, when it comes to “serious journalism” CN&R is second only to the defunct Chico Beat.
Is second best better than a first worst?
Oldshedite says:
August 18, 2010 at 2:30 am
Life’s especially hard if your a woolly mammoth with nowhere to go…
“Woolly mammoth killed off by climate change”
I’d love to know how the mammoths survived the onset of all those interglacials previous to the present one.???
“They do, at least, admit that the Earth’s temperatures were higher during the Eemian interglacial, than they are today. This is something most warmist deny on a daily basis.”
Who has denied this? Name names, give links, please.
Michael Mann and the ‘Hockey team’ and their acolytes in the media who claim modern temperatures are, quote: “unprecedented!”
If current climate change is anthropogenic and we are sending ourselves to hell in a hand-basket, studying the Eemian period ice cores is hardly going to be …useful for predictions of future climate.”
Sounds kinda like the “History Channel” method of journalism. Talk about one thing but show something different.