19 Jun: Climate Depot: Study Finds Warming in West Antarctica Is Due to ‘Natural’ Climate Variability – Not Humans – Media Ignores Study
Ten days ago the journal Science issued an embargoed press release about a forthcoming paper that suggested the warming observed in West Antarctica was due to natural climatic variability...
Overall, it’s a fascinating paper especially given the concern about the region’s ice decline leading to present and future sea level change. But unless you look at two or three specialised outlets you won’t have heard about it.
The embargoed information from Sciencejournal is normally released four days before the embargo is lifted on Thursday evening UK time. Thousands of journalists around the world see it as Science along with Nature are the world’s leading science journals. So why is it that no mainstream news media covered this important story? It’s not as though there were any other pressing environment stories to eclipse it...
https://www.climatedepot.com/2020/06/19/study-finds-warming-in-west-antarctica-is-due-to-natural-climate-variability-not-humans-media-ignores-study/