RollingThunder
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Oh, there you go, talking to yourself again. I suppose that's not too unusual in someone as insane as you obviously are.The publishers of the worlds most prestigious atlas have been caught out by Cambridge scientists exaggerating the effects of climate change.
In its latest edition, the £150 Times Atlas of the World has changed a huge coastal area of Greenland from white to green, suggesting an alarming acceleration of the melting of the northern ice cap.
Accompanying publicity material declared the change reflected concrete evidence that 15 per cent of the ice sheet around the island an area the size of the United Kingdom had melted since 1999.
But last night the atlass publishers admitted that the ice-free areas could in fact still be covered by sheets of more than a quarter of a mile thick. It came after a group of leading polar scientists from Cambridge University wrote to them saying their changes were incorrect and misleading and that the true rate of melting has been far slower.
Experts from the Universitys internationally-renowned Scott Polar Research Institute said the apparent disappearance of 115,830 sq miles of ice had no basis in science and was contradicted by recent satellite images
JammieWearingFool: Atlasgate: 'A Killer Mistake That Cannot Be Winked Away'
LOLOLOLOL......you retards are priceless....
So what did happen? The Times Atlas of the World, which BTW is not a peer reviewed science journal, seems to have mistakenly exaggerated ice loss from the Greenland ice sheet and a whole bunch of scientists from various places criticized their recent edition saying that Greenland is indeed losing ice but not quite that fast. If, as you dingbat denier cultists believe, there is a worldwide conspiracy among climate scientists to exaggerate the climate change crisis, why did all these scientists insist that the ice loss was less than the Atlas showed? The fact is, they are doing their jobs and striving for accuracy, as almost all scientists do.
Greenland is still losing ice mass at an accelerating rate.
Accelerated Ice Loss from Greenland
Mar 30th, 2010
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How do we know Greenland has been losing ice on balance? Data from two satellite missions have independently led to the same conclusion. ICESat has repeatedly measured the elevation profile of the Greenland Ice Sheet in great detail; changes over time, combined with estimates of ice compression and density, have allowed scientists to track changes in mass.Separately, the GRACE mission has provided a direct measure of mass change through time, through its unique scale in the sky capabilities, and is the basis for the 2004-2007 average annual loss estimate shown here.1
You complete and utter buffoon.. LOL
That's what I just said, numbnuts. It's an atlas, not a peer-reviewed science journal. The journals would certainly have caught the error."The publishers of the worlds most prestigious atlas have been caught out by Cambridge scientists exaggerating the effects of climate change."
get it? Its not a scientific peer reviewed publication. Its a atlas..
Yeah, "they" being some mapmakers working for a Rupert Murdoch owned media company. They were not climate scientists and they apparently didn't bother to consult with the actual climate scientists. So what is the fuss about?The point was they exaggerated the melting ice on greenland.
That's what I just pointed out, you pathetic imbecile. Are you once again incapable of understanding what you read?Its not open to peer review you imbecile, its contradictory to reality and satelite evidence reviewed and provided by the same scientists whose peer reviewed papers you post and cry over all the time. THEY said it was wrong, not some anti-agw protesters, not me, not Obama, the scientists who study that areas ice coverage said it.
You unconscionable eco-whore, you have no integrity at all.. Seriously your own scientists tell you they got it wrong and rather than shut the hell up and accept that the atlas makers were wrong, you try and dispute the very scientists you support by crying peer review like an idiot. You don't care about truth, right and wrong, or anything but pushing your favored eco-religion on people.. Seriously what makes you any better than the people you claim are in the pocket of big oil? You are the same animal just on different sides... Unbelievable!
Ya' know, ol' slackjawedidiot, I really thought that it wasn't possible for you to get any more retarded than you've already been on here but you just proved me wrong.
I've just made a number of posts where I have pointed out that the scientists who study the Arctic were the ones who publicly pointed out the error and said that the mapmakers were not basing their maps on the scientific data. The scientists got it right, moron, and did what they always do - stuck to the facts. I don't know how you got the idea that I was disputing the scientists who caught the error but I suspect your extreme stupidity has a lot to do with your inability to comprehend what is going on or what people are saying to you. Too bad you're such a monumental cretin and so embarrassingly unaware of that fact.
From the article I cited in post #15
The publishers of the Times Atlas were forced to admit on Tuesday that they were wrong to claim the Greenland ice pack had shrunk by 15%, as Arctic scientists rounded on the company for misinterpreting data and failing to consult them. The humiliating climbdown for HarperCollins part of Rupert Murdoch's publishing empire came after key sources of data on the Greenland ice denied that their research, cited by the Times Atlas, warranted the claims.
And Greenland is still losing ice mass at an accelerating rate.