By Brother Bradley J. Fikes, C.O.R.
A meltdown of West Antarctica’s ice sheet would raise sea levels by half the amount originally projected, according to a study in the journal Science. Reuters says:
A collapse of the ice sheet, viewed by scientists as more vulnerable than Greenland or East Antarctica because of global warming, would push up world sea levels by 3.3 metres (11 ft) over hundreds of years rather than 5-6 as long estimated.
That would seem to be unambiguously good news, but there is no good news in global warming science. Even what’s supposedly good will be made to seem bad by most reporters. Time’s Jeffrey Kluger has an especially dishonest article about the “slightly rosier” forecast that somehow concluded that an agreement to stop the melting was even more urgent than before.
This is the kind of negative-value journalism that belies the MSM’s constant squawking about its value to society.
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