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FOUND: 115,830 square miles of polar ice
Flopping Aces ^ | 01-30-12 | DrJohn

Posted on 01/30/2012 3:58:17 PM PST by Starman417

Fake but true:

IT APPEARED to provide incontrovertible proof that global warming was accelerating faster than even the most doom-laden scientists had predicted.

There was considerable alarm when the word’s most authoritative atlas printed a map which showed that Greenland was rapidly turning green.

However, experts from around the globe pointed out that the cataclysmic chart had no scientific support and was contradicted by all of the most recent satellite images.

Now the Scottish map-makers responsible for the disappearance of 115,830 square miles of polar ice have admitted publicly they were wrong.

As an act of contrition, The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World cartographers have produced a new map which restores Greenland’s ice cover.

We're sorry- that we got caught.

Jethro Lennox, senior publishing editor of the £150 tome, insisted lessons would be learned from the episode, which generated headlines around the globe.

The Glasgow-based map-maker said: “We’re very disappointed at the way it happened.

Nothing to see here, move on:

(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...


TOPICS: Politics; Science
KEYWORDS: agw; catastrophism; climate; warming

1 posted on 01/30/2012 3:58:25 PM PST by Starman417
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To: Starman417

Found!

Kind of small, but more than was expected.


2 posted on 01/30/2012 4:39:47 PM PST by hadaclueonce (scrap copper is more than $3.00 a pound. wind generators are full of copper)
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To: Starman417; Ernest_at_the_Beach

found it!


3 posted on 01/30/2012 4:46:25 PM PST by Fred Nerks (The cat)
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To: Starman417

http://www.scotsman.com/news/odd/map_makers_admit_greenland_gaffe_1_2077854


4 posted on 01/30/2012 4:52:38 PM PST by Fred Nerks (The cat)
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To: Starman417
Settled science! LOL
5 posted on 01/30/2012 4:57:06 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Starman417

and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!

6 posted on 01/30/2012 5:07:26 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Starman417

I didn’t even know it was missing.


7 posted on 01/30/2012 5:18:46 PM PST by rfreedom4u (Forced diversity causes dissent!)
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To: Starman417

I wondered where I’d left that.


8 posted on 01/30/2012 5:27:46 PM PST by Starstruck
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To: Starman417

They probably forgot there was an Internet and scientists, honest ones still.


9 posted on 01/30/2012 6:03:53 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Starman417

Found on a table in Hillary Clinton’s bedroom?


10 posted on 01/30/2012 6:33:51 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Starman417
They re-iced Greenland? I guess I'll have to cancel my expedition to recover all those lost WWII aircraft that were supposed to be sitting out on the tundra with the ice gone.
11 posted on 01/30/2012 7:17:31 PM PST by Deaf Smith
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To: Starman417
If 15 per cent of ice was lost, then sea levels would have risen by one metre...”

huh ?
12 posted on 01/30/2012 7:23:19 PM PST by stylin19a (time to Obamanos)
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To: Starman417

The only thing that they are disappointed about is that they were caught.


13 posted on 01/30/2012 7:37:31 PM PST by DarkWaters ("Deception is a state of mind --- and the mind of the state" --- James Jesus Angleton)
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To: 75thOVI; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; ...

Thanks Starman417.




14 posted on 01/31/2012 6:21:56 PM PST by SunkenCiv (FReep this FReepathon!)
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