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The publishers of the world’s 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 atlas’s 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 University’s 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'
So let me see if I can characterize the range and breadth of the conspiracy you are telling us exists.
The majority of climatologists, and literally hundreds of thousands of scientists in other fields whose research also is used to support the theory of Global warming, AND NOW some of the worlds leading CARTOLOGISTS are also in on this vast Global Warming lie?
Is that what you really believe?
That literally scores of thousands of climatologists and wealther scscientists and now cartologists, too, PLUS all the auxillary researchers whose work ALSO contributes to this theory are all in on a gigantic conspiracy to convince us that the world's climate is getting warmer?
And they are doing this, some of you claim, merely to get GRANTS to FAKE research?!
And some of you believe this?
Seriously?
Wow!
I have to hand it to you folks.
Your faith based beliefs in this conspiracy theory are truly a marvel to behold.
I don't suppose that it is possible that any of you have considered the possibility that the majority of climatologists and so forth are just honestly wrong, have you?
I mean we all know that periodically the majority of scientists ARE wrong, right?
But THAT possiblity doesn't appeal to ya'll, does it?
So instead you weave a completely implausible conspiracy theory, one involving hundreds of thousands of people, because why?
Because that conspriacy theory suits your political point of view.
Man, that's a breath-takingly insane belief system, folks.
YOur VAST CABAL OF GLOBAL-WARMING SCIENCTISTS THEORY is nuttier than pretty much any other conspiracy theory I can think of.
Understand, I say this to you and I am more than willing to consider the possibility that the whole global weirding event could be entirely nonsense and acknowledging that the world of science could be, as it sometimes has been before, TOTALLY WRONG.
But a conspiracy involving hundreds of thousands of co-conspirators?
Man, that is TRULY nuts.
And we see trollingblunders alter ego continuing the same ignorance... Do you really expect us to believe they are separate people now? Really??
Get a grip blundereditecthunderkonradsocks. or whoever you are this time (like it matters)... The very scientists whose job it is to monitor greenlands ice where the ones who called the atlas out... Get it? What you think changing your identity will make your argument better?