Posted on 02/07/2019 7:54:46 AM PST by SeekAndFind
CNN is breathless over a “Gigantic hole two-thirds the size of Manhattan discovered in Antarctic glacier.” I’m sure they wish the hole actually were in Manhattan and included Trump Tower, but alas the hole is far away from their nemesis, the President.
They describe it as, “A massive cavity” which “has been discovered growing in an Antarctic glacier, signaling rapid ice decay that has shocked scientists.” It’s growing at an “explosive rate” beneath the Thwaites Glacier, they anxiously report.
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CNN’s primary concern is that the melting glacier will flood the world, including their television studios. How big is this “massive cavity”?
It’s just a small hole within a glacier the size of Florida. Manhattan is about 23 square miles, so a hole two thirds the size of Manhattan would be almost 16 square miles. Yes, a hole is three dimensional and surface area is two dimensional, but I’m simply trying to create perspective.
By comparison, Florida is 65,755 square miles. The hole in the glacier is about 0.01 percent of the entire glacier, and the water released from the melt will not even be measurable in the ocean. But CNN won’t let that minor point interfere with their doomsday prognostications.
Not only CNN, but their other media brethren are also in a panic over this news. The Hill reports a similar story, as does CBS News. The only explanation offered in any of the articles is climate change. Just as climate change was blamed for the polar vortex and recent cold spell in the Upper Midwest.
Media mavens attribute everything bad in the world to climate change. Forbes believes climate change caused ISIS. Obesity is also blamed on climate change.
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Always remember that the F students in science classes become journalists.
Or psychologists.
When will volcanoes be blamed on global warming?
Note to CNN: It’s summer in Antarctica and that means the sun is up and shining close to 24 hours a day. Ice does melt in those conditions, especially a chunk of it drifting north into warmer sea waters. Instead of the “kindness of strangers”, the news media rely on the ignorance of their audience.
If there are holes in the ice then it must be from ice fisherman....
“HERE BE THERE SHOGGOTHS.”
Thanks! Now I have been driven quite mad and will have to go play with the giant penguins.
#4 ice melts on comets too!
457 below zero and the ice is being melted by the sun.
Yet the ice as told by the liars for global warming should not be melting on the earth.
Every year the climate scammers are shocked that ice melts in the summer (it is summer in Antarctica)! Holes the size of Manhattan, ice bergs the size of Delaware. No mention when it freezes back up in the winter.
A news flash for these ‘folks’:
Explore congress. There you will find abundant holes in all sizes and genders. All are preowned and used.
At the bottom of the hole they found a magnifying glass dropped by a climate scientist.
The sensationalists sound like a bunch of iceholes to me.
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