I suppose they haven’t learned anything from the last beat down skeptics gave them on their Statue of Liberty Fiasco
Bjørn Lomborg writes:
National Geographic is at it again. They present the world “if all the ice melted” — and they have the temerity to suggest it will happen with more global warming.
“If we continue adding carbon to the atmosphere, we’ll very likely create an ice-free planet, with an average temperature of perhaps 80 degrees Fahrenheit instead of the current 58.”
This, of course, is only the outcome of continuing ever larger carbon emissions for many hundreds of years, something that no one is realistically expecting.
Could we please have a sensible, non-scare conversation back at the venerable National Geographic?
National Geographic’s last scare: http://on.fb.me/1iJR5t6
And here is their new one: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/rising-seas/if-ice-melted-map
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[Anthony] Meanwhile both Arctic and Antarctic ice are within normal parameters of standard deviation:
Arctic is about 1 standard deviation below the average line:
![N_stddev_timeseries[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/n_stddev_timeseries1.png?quality=75)
The Antarctic is above two standard deviations:
![S_stddev_timeseries[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/s_stddev_timeseries1.png?quality=75)
Globally, sea ice is at normal:
![global.daily.ice.area.withtrend[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/global-daily-ice-area-withtrend1.jpg?quality=83)
Related articles
- The ice is not melting, yet still the scaremongers blunder on (junkscience.com)
- National Geographic rising sea level prophecy – cause for concern or absurd fairytale? (wattsupwiththat.com)
I won’t have to pay to rent a slip because I’ll have waterfront property. I’ll start building my boathouse now.
That bogus map is of absolutely no interest for me.
What I urgently need, instead, is a map (preferably interactive), showing the world’s sea level variation ranging from the eemian warm period over the height of the past glaciation until today for research purposes, because I am writing a novel actually and need this map to research the most probable paths of mankind’s migration over the past 50.000 years, or so.
Any help is welcome!
Jim Steele, National Geographic have had conflicting versions of the Robert Peary story. One writer who extensively studied the Robert Peary journals decided that Peary’s claims were impossible but a couple of years later that was all forgotten and at present NG stands behind Peary’s claim of being first to the North Pole.
I unsubscribed from Nat Geo about thirty years ago (?) after an issue devoted completely to ENERGY, was similarly replete with gaffe after gaffe after gaffe, without any hint of rational reality. Alexander Graham Bell has been turning over in his grave ever since, at the poor science now displayed in that magazine.
I want to see a “what-if” global temperature map if the sun exploded.
National Skeptic Society alternative headline.
IF YOU KNEW AN INTERGLACIAL ALWAYS COMES TO AN END WHAT WOULD YOU DO
Just like science fiction. Only, heavy on the fiction and very, very light on the science.
Eliza says:
November 5, 2013 at 7:19 am
Just Boycott the magazine. easy.
Make sure your local schools cancel their library subscriptions as well.
Time to rename the magazine Fantasy Geographic. They still make nice maps, though.
The northern ice cap is already displacing its mass in sea water.
Sad that even in this era people don’t understand what that means.
It must sell or they must have nothing better to sell. I blame incompetence rather than malice.
FeSun says:
November 5, 2013 at 7:29 am
The previous interglacial, the Eemian, lasted about 5000 years longer than our current one, the Holocene, & was much warmer. Yet all the ice didn’t melt. Indeed, far from it.
Nor would an 80-degree F earth happen even with CO2 at its Cretaceous highs of 1000 to 3000 ppm. Global average T might have been as high as 70 degrees F then, but not because of the CO2. Rather it was the very active volcanism that in part was responsible for the CO2 that pumped heat into the seas & air, which in turn caused more gas to come out of solution in the oceans.
NG’s lies are ludicrous, anti-scientific, sensationalist scaremongering.
Perhaps National Geographic is trying to capture the tin-hat demographic from Fate Magazine.
mogamboguru says:
November 5, 2013 at 9:29 am
You can use digital bathymetric maps. Sea level was about 140 m lower at the last glacial maximum. Disregarding the weight of ice & geologic events of the past 20,000 years, that contour line will give you a rough idea of coastlines at that time.
In ten years, they’ll have been harping on this for another decade.
You heard it here first.
Interesting how central Florida has gone from about 350ft above sea level to less than 260.
They should also do pictures of the Earth if all the water froze, all the water turned into wine, and what Earth would look like spiked on a unicorn horn.
All perfectly modelable scenarios, I’m sure.
The NG ‘House Style’ of a yellow border is beginning to identify them for what they are: Yellow Journalism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_press).
When I was a boy being brought up in a ’50s orphanage, the NG was a quality magazine we read cover-to-cover. We got a good education from it – not to mention a love of photography. It is now a comic and I don’t even bother to look at its covers on the newsagents’ shelves (but then, perhaps it should be on the top shelf).
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But the NG will tell us that it was caused by CACC – and will likely happen in our lifetime!! (with many apologies to Nat King Cole and the Gershwins)
tadchem says:
November 5, 2013 at 10:26 am
Perhaps National Geographic is trying to capture the tin-hat demographic from Fate Magazine.
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I have a different viewpoint. NG is controlled by elitists/statists who are working tirelessly to bring to fruition their agenda of control over and massive reduction of the human population.
In todays’ episode of the flat earth sosciety realists joke about n.g. and other
Warmist propaganda while our beloved tyrant obama pushes through climate change regulations
And carbon taxes without congress or senate approval.
This stuff goes along with the Weather Channel’s new program called “Tipping Point”. More scary weather junk.
Roy Spencer says:
November 5, 2013 at 9:37 am
I want to see a “what-if” global temperature map if the sun exploded.
Can’t no earth.
As near as I can tell from their map (or whatever other description one may wish to overly dignify it with) it appears the entire East Coast of the USA is going to be under seawater for a couple hundred miles inland. So that would have to include Washington D.C. wouldn’t it? So are we supposed to be concerned about that?
Oh, I guess we should be because that would be the end of FEMA and their heroic efforts of providing substandard mobile homes to the displaced. That would also be the end of the NSA which has kept us safe by snooping on the (insert appropriate word here) lives of political adversaries. That might also be the end of the TSA (and I won’t go there with how they snoop). Oh, and the IRS too, which has protected us from those terrorist Tea Part types. Oh, and the ATF which has enhanced our safety by ‘accidentally’ handing out 1,200 weapons (including Barrett .50 caliber’s) to Mexican drug gangs. And that flooding might endanger the FBI which has diligently investigated fraudulent abuse by (insert federal agency name here) of tax returns by diligently not investigating fraudulent abuse of… Plus there’s a chance that flooding could disrupt NASA’s Muslim outreach program which has done such a stellar job of promoting peace in the Middle East. And let us not forget Fannie May and Freddie Mac, and the DOE, and the NHTSA promoting any national speed limits that will save our lives. Oh, nearly forgot, it would certainly disrupt the EPA. Not to mention the NOAA, DEA, DOE, HUD, HHS…and, and, THE ACA!
Yep, I guess that flooding would be a disaster after all. But never fear. Notice how that flooding has not affected the Great Lakes, in particularly, Lake Michigan. That means Chicago lies untouched. Phew! After having taken decades for its machine style politics to have finally found their way to D.C., at least the coastal flooding will leave the epicenter intact.