Fact Check: Science Wrong on Summer Arctic Ice Melt Prediction

Thursday, September 18, 2008, 9:38
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Photo courtesy quimpg and licensed by Creative Commons.

Back on June 27th, the news media predicted a greater than 50% chance that the Arctic would be completely ice free this summer. Now that summer is effectively over for the Arctic and cooler temperatures are prevailing, let’s take a moment to see what really happened this summer. NewsBusters wraps this up nicely, reporting that 1.74 million square miles of ice cover still exists in the Arctic, which makes the scientific predictions off by precisely 1.74 million square miles. Close, but not close enough!

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A social and fiscal conservative, I scour the news for information that disputes the current man-made global warming indoctrination that takes place around the world. I take a rather sarcastic approach to reporting on the nonsense being spewed by the talking heads in the media and the governments around the world.