Overheated imaginations. (Correction, Please!).ITEM: The break-up of an ice shelf in the Antarctic was treated as more proof of "global warming" on ABC's Good Morning America Good Morning America is a weekday morning news show that is broadcast on the ABC television network. The show was adapted from The Morning Exchange, a morning show created by and airing on the ABC affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio, and was launched nationally as for March 20th: "The rapid collapse of a massive Antarctic ice shelf has scientists wondering if global warming is to blame. The Rhode Island-sized chunk of ice disintegrated in little more than a month during what's been one of the warmest Antarctic summers on record." CORRECTION: While ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. and other doomsayers were quick to blame global warming, they jumped to an unwarranted conclusion. Dr. David Vaughn of the British Antarctic Survey Based in Cambridge, the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national Antarctic operator and has an active role in Antarctic affairs. BAS is part of the Natural Environment Research Council and has over 450 staff. notes that the temperatures in the Antarctic interior have actually been falling for decades. Moreover, "As far as global implications are concerned," he told the BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. , "there are few as far as the present event [the ice break-up] is concerned." Even the left-leaning Washington Post acknowledged: "Researchers and scientists who study the Antarctic Peninsula cautioned that there was little evidence to directly link the ice shelf collapse to the effects of global warming
The predicted effects of global warming on the environment and for human life are numerous and varied. It is generally difficult to attribute specific natural phenomena to long-term causes, but some effects of ...." However, some couldn't resist this opportunity. Reuters, for example, featured a story on March 19th that claimed the Antarctic Peninsula had warmed by an astonishing a·ston·ish tr.v. as·ton·ished, as·ton·ish·ing, as·ton·ish·es To fill with sudden wonder or amazement. See Synonyms at surprise. 36 degrees Fahrenheit during the past half-century. However, what apparently happened (as the online Wall Street Journal suggested) was that the wire service confused the temperature of 2.5 degrees Celsius (about 36 degrees Fahrenheit) with the recorded change of 2.5 degrees Celsius (a change of some 4 degrees Fahrenheit). |
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