{"id":6169,"date":"2011-09-21T14:30:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T18:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=6169"},"modified":"2011-09-21T14:30:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T18:30:49","slug":"another-global-warming-ooops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=6169","title":{"rendered":"Another Global Warming Ooops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; display: block;\">\n<div style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Helicopter_is_taking_off_Greenland_ice_sheet_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"A helicopter is taking off Greenland Ice Sheet\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/6f\/Helicopter_is_taking_off_Greenland_ice_sheet_.jpg\/300px-Helicopter_is_taking_off_Greenland_ice_sheet_.jpg\" alt=\"A helicopter is taking off Greenland Ice Sheet\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>On September 17, <a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2011\/09\/17\/complaints-over-false-info-in-new-times-world-atlas-grow\/\">WattsUpWithThat<\/a>\u00a0posted a story about the growing number of complaints about the new\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timesatlas.com\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World<\/a>. The\u00a0Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) disputes the information about Greenland given in the Atlas.<\/p>\n<p>The article at WattsUpWithThat reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cThere is no scientific evidence that the area of the Greenland ice sheet since 1999 has shrunk by 15% as the latest edition of the \u2018Times Atlas shows,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0says climate researcher Ruth Mottram, DMI.<\/p>\n<p>The article further reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The error may have occurred if katograferne from the \u2018Times Atlas have used satellite images of Greenland to assess ice spatial distribution.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cWhen I look at satellite images of Greenland, it looks real enough dark along the coast, but that does not mean that the ice has disappeared\u201d says climate researcher and continues: \u201cThe dark color is caused by dirt, dust and volcanic ash that makes the ice dark especially in Southeast Greenland. \u201c<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am not by any means a scientific type, but I can understand the mistake. It&#8217;s always easier to draw the conclusions that back-up your pet theory. However, when your pet theory has the potential to ruin the global economy, maybe it&#8217;s time to reconsider.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=c9e3f23f-5db3-4723-b524-386c0b98561e\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 17, WattsUpWithThat\u00a0posted a story about the growing number of complaints about the new\u00a0Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World. The\u00a0Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) disputes the information about Greenland given in the Atlas. The article at WattsUpWithThat reports: \u201cThere is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=6169\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[545,57,546,544,547,549,548],"class_list":["post-6169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-danish-meteorological-institute","tag-global-warming","tag-greenland","tag-greenland-ice-sheet","tag-times-atlas-of-the-world","tag-times-comprehensive-atlas-of-the-world","tag-watts-up-with-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6193,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6169\/revisions\/6193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}