Friday, October 26, 2007
Anderson Cooper Reports Greenland Falsehood
Planet In Peril
The vast ice sheet of Greenland -- 1,500 miles long and more than a mile deep, the world's largest island. Eighty percent of it covered by ice. It's springtime here, though nothing is green. This time of year the sun never sets -- just dips down to rest on the horizon. We're almost at the top of the world. But to really see what's happening here, you need to get on the ground. The ice is melting fast and this island is warming.
RUSH: I mention all these statistics only because of the hysteria that accompanies fires in the midst of a political crusade to establish a hoax as legitimate, that, being manmade, global warming is to the point that we're going to destroy the planet and it's a catastrophe and so forth.
Last night on CNN, there was a report by Anderson Cooper: Greenland's ice sheet, 30% of it gone in the past 30 years. Not true. It is total and outright false. It is an incorrect assertion.
Greenland has cooled since the 1940s. The melt rate from 1920 to 1930 was twice as fast as the current melt rate in Greenland. Now, this mistake was verified with a Greenland scientist this morning, the CNN mistaken.
The scientist said that if Greenland lost as much ice, 40% of its ice as CNN reported last night, there would already be a ten-foot surge in sea level.
Planet In Peril
The vast ice sheet of Greenland -- 1,500 miles long and more than a mile deep, the world's largest island. Eighty percent of it covered by ice. It's springtime here, though nothing is green. This time of year the sun never sets -- just dips down to rest on the horizon. We're almost at the top of the world. But to really see what's happening here, you need to get on the ground. The ice is melting fast and this island is warming.
RUSH: I mention all these statistics only because of the hysteria that accompanies fires in the midst of a political crusade to establish a hoax as legitimate, that, being manmade, global warming is to the point that we're going to destroy the planet and it's a catastrophe and so forth.
Last night on CNN, there was a report by Anderson Cooper: Greenland's ice sheet, 30% of it gone in the past 30 years. Not true. It is total and outright false. It is an incorrect assertion.
Greenland has cooled since the 1940s. The melt rate from 1920 to 1930 was twice as fast as the current melt rate in Greenland. Now, this mistake was verified with a Greenland scientist this morning, the CNN mistaken.
The scientist said that if Greenland lost as much ice, 40% of its ice as CNN reported last night, there would already be a ten-foot surge in sea level.
