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World Atlas ice loss claim exaggerated: scientists | ReutersWorld Atlas ice loss claim exaggerated: scientists
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(Reuters) - The Times Atlas of the World exaggerated the rate of Greenland's ice loss in its thirteenth edition last week, scientists said on Monday.
The atlas, published by HarperCollins, showed that Greenland lost 15 percent of its ice cover over the past 12 years, based on information from the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado in the United States.
The Greenland ice sheet is the second biggest in the world and significant shrinking could lead to a global rise in sea levels.
"While global warming has played a role in this reduction, it is also as a result of the much more accurate data and in-depth research that is now available," HarperCollins said on its website on Monday.
However, a number of scientists disputed the claim.
"We believe that the figure of a 15 percent decrease in permanent ice cover since the publication of the previous atlas 12 years (ago) is both incorrect and misleading," said Poul Christoffersen, glaciologist at the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) at the University of Cambridge.
"We concluded that a sizable portion of the area mapped as ice-free in the Atlas is clearly still ice-covered."
Other scientists agreed.
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This excerpt is just another tip of another iceberg, so to speak. More available at link.
LOLOLOLOL.....The Times Atlas of the World, which BTW is not a peer-reviewed science journal, made a mistake and a number of scientists from different countries spotted it and protested. That is what scientists do. They strive for accuracy. Kind of blows your "world-wide scientific conspiracy to exaggerate global warming" paranoid conspiracy theory out of the water, doesn't it.
There is already a thread about this, so check out this: Scientists just doing their job
Greenland is still losing ice mass at an accelerating rate.
Accelerated Ice Loss from Greenland