A University embellishing data and creating fancy graphics to suit its own grants for the study of melting ice caps? No WAY! /s
(especially one from Illinois?)
Heck, it’s not like even NASA would use incorrect data for global temperatures.... would they? /sarcasm again
There were no color pictures like that in 79 from a satellite photo, and that was computer generated, there were not computer programs pumping out true-color or even 256 color at that time, much less that resolution.
Someone took a photo of the earth, and over-layed whatever graphics they wanted on to it. I could over lay stuff to make it look like the ice caps were growing into a face of Al Gore, that don’t make it real. (well, I couldn’t but my teen-aged son could).
In other words... it’s been ‘shopped.
It’s trivial to gussie up the presentation of any set of data using technologies that didn’t exist when the data were first collected — and so what?
What I’d care about is whether the data was gathered in the exact same manner in the two cases being compared. No fair having one set be created from manual visits and a second set being generated from a satellite without an attempt to reconcile discrepancies which the two methods will almost certainly introduce without resorting to something as crude as “hide the decline.”
It would take a lot of work to “shop” every shot for nearly every day since 1979. Strange that they would do that and leave the “shopped shots” showing little to no change in Arctic ice too. Kind of a waste of propaganda effort wouldn’t you say?