CBS Hawks Another Antarctic Climate Scare Based on a Lot of ‘Maybe’

Stephen Kruiser

 

Whenever I read the latest dire warning from scientists about melting this or rising that, I’m tempted to print the article up and mark all of the qualifying words with a highlighter. If I were more patient, I’d do that with every post I read for a year and publish the results. This post from CBSNews.com is a perfect example.  It begins with the requisite alarming headline:

Antarctic ice shelf could collapse within 100 years, scientists warn

It then follows with boilerplate wordiness that is mostly hollow vagueness disguised as explanation.   A massive iceberg splintered off one of West Antarctica’s largest glaciers last year, and now, scientists have discovered the “troubling” reason why, they said.

In 2015, an iceberg measuring almost 225 square miles broke off from the Pine Island Glacier, which forms part of the ice shelf that bounds the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Recently, while reviewing satellite images taken before the giant iceberg broke off, researchers found evidence of a rift at the very base of the ice shelf. This suggests that the sprawling glacier broke apart from the inside out, the new study said.....To Read More....