Wednesday, August 01, 2012

Global warming – how to lose your case

The Coffee Party's Facebook page has a link to "In case you missed it, Greenland just melted".

One of the color-coded pictures shows Greenland with mostly white, the other with mostly pink or dark pink. If you read the text though, 97% of the surface ice on Greenland is melting.  Quite a bit different than all the ice melting.  The question is how normal is this summer melt compared with previous summer melts.

A few of the commenters pointed this out.  Some leapt on the article as a chance to claim global warming doesn't exist.  And many leapt on the article with an alarmist view.

For more, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_ice_sheet.