Inaccurate
Data from glaciers around the world show most are shrinking as a consequence of global warming
Claim:
90 percent of the world’s glaciers are growing.
Articles tagged with
Glaciers
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Source: Principia Scientific, IceAgeNow, 2016-11-26 -
Flawed reasoning
Blaze article badly misrepresents study of Greenland's Jakobshavn Glacier
Claim:
[O]ne of the previously fastest shrinking glaciers in the world is growing again, calling into question the narrative that rapid climate change [...] poses a significant threat to the existence of the human race
Source: The Blaze, Chris Enloe, 2019-03-26 -
1.3High
Washington Post article accurately describes latest estimate of accelerating Antarctic ice loss
“The article presents the results of the study accurately, and uses multiple comments from scientists both involved and not-involved in the study to highlight the key findings. Some of the explanations are simplified, and there is a slight attempt at the end to downplay the results by suggesting scientists can’t predict the future. It is correct that the study presented is not making predictions, rather documenting past changes, but the positive trend is what we would expect based on the longer record of change we have for glaciers and ice caps.”
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1.7Very high
New York Times effectively informs readers about large Larsen C iceberg calving event
“The article handles a complex topic well. It would be easy to be alarmist with this subject matter, and while its lede edges that way, the main content of the article is very balanced. It also presents a lot of interesting information in a compelling manner.”
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1.2High
New York Times series accurately describes research on Antarctic ice sheets and sea level rise, but highlights uncertain studies
“Generally scientifically sound, but caution should be displayed before basing discussion solely on a single modeling study, especially when it incorporates fundamentally different processes relative to other contemporary models.”
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-2Very low
Analysis of “Wake up, Obama, climate change has been happening forever”
“the evidence of accelerating glacier melt and retreat in response to manmade warming is crystal clear. Any other conclusion is willfully ignoring the data, the facts, and the conclusions of the entire glaciological community.”
