The catastrophisation of natural events and weather is relentless across the mainstream media as populations continue to be nudged towards an elitist command-and-control Net Zero future. The BBC recently copied a headline from the U.S.-based National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) claiming Antarctica sea ice had hit a “new record low”.
Inexplicably missing from the story was the later observation from the NSIDC that since accurate satellite records began in 1979, the trend in the minimum ice extent is “near zero”. Any loss was said to be “not statistically significant”.
To be fair to the writer, BBC science correspondent Jonathan Amos, he
did report later in the story that scientists consider the behaviour of
Antarctica sea ice to be a “complicated phenomenon which cannot simply
be ascribed to climate change”. Of course, as regular Daily Sceptic
readers are aware, the Antarctic is a difficult hunting ground for
climate catastrophists since over the last seven decades there has been
little or no warming over large areas of the continent....<<<Read More>>>...