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ABC, CBS, and NBC Freak Out Over Melting Antarctic Ice
NewsBusters ^ | May 13, 2014 | By Jeffrey Meyer |

Posted on 05/13/2014 3:10:51 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

On Monday, May 12, all three network evening newscasts hyped the dire consequences of a new NASA study which show that “large parts of the western Antarctica ice sheet appears to have collapsed.”

ABC, CBS, and NBC hyperventilated over the report, and warned of rising sea levels in the immediate future. CBS News’ Elaine Quijano warned “A 10-foot rise in sea level would submerge tunnels and subways here in Manhattan and parts of Queens and Brooklyn. But, Scott, it would also put the entire city of Miami Beach and much of South Florida underwater.”

NBC Nightly News and ABC World News offered news briefs while the CBS Evening News provided a 1 minute and 37 second report. NBC’s Brian Williams fretted that “Scientists say further degradation is almost certainly unstoppable. They say global warming is accelerating the pace of disintegration.”

ABC’s Diane Sawyer struck a similar tone:

"An alert about falling ice in the western part of Antarctica. They say 40 years of data showed the glaciers are melting so fast, it is now unstoppable. They project the global sea level will rise three feet or more by the year 2100 and low coastal areas like much of Florida will be the hardest hit."

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KEYWORDS: antarctic; antarctica; artarctica; climatechange; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; thwaitesglacier
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To: TomGuy

Hey TG! Thanks for that. I’ve been looking for that clip! Thanks again.


21 posted on 05/13/2014 3:32:49 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I’m glad to hear that it’s too late to do anything about it. Now we can cancel all the government expansion that was going to be part of the phony solution.


22 posted on 05/13/2014 3:32:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

In a month or so it will be winter down there and the ice will begin to freeze again...

Bunch of morons...


23 posted on 05/13/2014 3:33:18 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Remember when Paul Erlich and these SAME assholes were going to dump carbon, soot and sand on the Antarctic to stave off the next Ice Age? They found out they have more money to be made for Climate Warming/ Change/ Disruption/. See the book Ecoscam.


24 posted on 05/13/2014 3:33:25 PM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Gee global warming hypocrite Al Gore better start moving the furniture from his seaside mansion in California least it get wet from rising sea levels.


25 posted on 05/13/2014 3:33:54 PM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: Brad from Tennessee
When the Beautiful People stop buying oceanfront property on Martha's Vineyard,Cape Cod and Malibu I'll believe it.Until then it's just an ongoing attempt by algore to increase his net worth.
26 posted on 05/13/2014 3:34:48 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party Policy:Lie,Deny,Refuse To Comply)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

They say global warming is accelerating the pace of disintegration

um... global warming stopped nearly 15 years ago.


27 posted on 05/13/2014 3:36:24 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

They have a vocabulary to fit any scenario.

For flooding in some areas and droughts in other areas, they blame El Niño.

For droughts in some areas and flooding in other areas, they blame La Niña.

Somehow, they will manage to insert ‘vortex’ in future reporting.


28 posted on 05/13/2014 3:37:08 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: ViLaLuz
NY and Miami underwater. What’s the down side in this article?

On Fox Business' Varney&Co the other day, Stu Varney had the CEO of Lumber Liquidators decrying the global climate ?change? for flooding in Miami. Left unmentioned by him is the alternate, more local and logical explanation (Occam's Razor) of draining of the aquifer resulting in land subsidence.

29 posted on 05/13/2014 3:43:38 PM PDT by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

30 posted on 05/13/2014 3:46:11 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Alarmists. I guess the fact that Antarctic ice hit an all time high in September means nothing to them.


31 posted on 05/13/2014 3:48:06 PM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

10 foot rise in the seas?
Is there anybody who can calculate how big a volume of ice/snow/glacier would have to melt to raise the oceans 10 feet? They reduce in volume by a large percent.
The oceans cover 70% of the Earth’s surface.
Who can calculate it?


32 posted on 05/13/2014 3:49:25 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

and yet, the east ice is increasing:

Widespread Persistent Thickening of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet by Freezing from the Base

https://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6024/1592

and then there’s the wind:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/09/18/claim-winds-blamed-for-antarctic-sea-ice-approaching-record-high/

and, going back 12 years, it could be just a case of the “ice stream” which fluctuates:

The scientists said Antarctica is the only continent that is cooling. They can not say why.

In their paper, Joughin and Tulaczyk suggest the West Antarctic ice streams may be undergoing the same transition from shrinking to growing that appears to have occurred on a neighboring stream 150 years ago.

The results, they add, suggest a reduced possibility of the feared massive collapse of the ice field.

“Perhaps, after 10,000 years of retreat from the ice-age maximum, researchers turned on their instruments just in time to catch the stabilization or re-advance of the ice sheet,” Richard B. Alley of Pennsylvania State University, wrote in a commentary accompanying the Science paper.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/science/cold-science/2002-01-18-wais-thicker.htm


33 posted on 05/13/2014 3:52:24 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: Brad from Tennessee

It’s only been a mention in the news for, oh maybe, four years, now?


34 posted on 05/13/2014 4:06:08 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Brad from Tennessee

See, the problem is, all the coastal cities are heavily implanted with Democrat voters.

If those cities are ruined...!!!


35 posted on 05/13/2014 4:06:42 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Gay State Conservative

All that is certain is that governments will steal your savings long before you need a boat.


36 posted on 05/13/2014 4:14:30 PM PDT by Liberty Wins ( The average lefty is synapse challenged)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
The hypothesis is bunk, unprovable and quite impossible.
37 posted on 05/13/2014 4:14:35 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: I want the USA back

Melting Ice does not make the volume increase!

Try this, Place a pitcher of ice water on the table with the ice floating on the surface the the water to the brim and let it melt.

The floating ice exactly displaces the amount of water equal in weight to that of the ice. As the ice melts, its water replaces the exact same volume as the part that is underwater when it’s floating.

Ice is less dense than water so when it melts it will result in a steady or lower water level not increase it.

These charlatans are preying on the public’s ignorance.


38 posted on 05/13/2014 4:15:25 PM PDT by boilerfan (Hoosier born, Boilermaker educated!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Seems to me the press should be a little more concerned about threats closer to home.... like... the Yellowstone supervolcano, and the fact that the government is withholding valuable information that could save thousands of lives.
If there is any truth to the rumors that our government has reached “refugee” arrangements with OTHER COUNTRIES to house Americans in case of an eruption, I would submit that the press is again FAILING to do their job.


39 posted on 05/13/2014 4:16:24 PM PDT by Safrguns (PM me if you like to play Minecraft!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Claim That Sea Level Is Rising Is a Total Fraud

Sea levels began to rise 18k years ago at the end of the last glacial period. They have risen about 135 meters since then which is an average of 7.5 millimeters per year. That is an average of 750 mm per century (29.5 inches) which is far more than the average over the last century.

From 1880 to 2000 sea level rose about 20 cm or just under 8 inches. Far far less than the nearly 30 inches per century average over the last 18,000 years.


40 posted on 05/13/2014 4:31:15 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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