This image spoke a thousand phrases about ‘local weather change’ – till it didn’t @CNN @BBC @AlGore
Bjorn Lomberg writes on Fb:
Oops, do not forget that viral sled-on-water image exhibiting “our ongoing local weather disaster” (CNN)?
Seems it’s fully regular, occurred within the 1800s, and can in all probability occur *much less* with greater temps.
However Al Gore desires permission to make use of it in his slideshow.
Within the article Lomborg cites, it says:
Spring in Greenland interpreted as local weather change: “That is fully regular”
CNN has offered a photograph as proof of the devastating impression of a warming planet, however that isn’t essentially what the photograph exhibits. Scientists say this can be a typical and damaging local weather doomsday story.
Typically an image speaks greater than a thousand phrases. Typically the image merely speaks what the viewer desires to listen to. Over the previous week, a photograph of a canine sled transferring via soften water in a fjord close to Thule in north-west Greenland went international.
Typically an image speaks greater than a thousand phrases. Typically it deceives. Over the previous week, a photograph of a canine sled transferring via soften water in a fjord close to Thule in north-west Greenland went international as supposed proof of local weather change. The photograph was taken by Steffen M. Olsen, a PhD researcher on the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI).
Foto: Asger Ladefoged
The image was taken by a scientist on the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) and seems ominous. As if the ice is melting quick underneath the toes of the canine and would possibly at any second crack and pull the sled down into the deep water. As if the very basis of humanity is melting earlier than the digicam.
The photograph has been shared by CNN, the BBC and a number of other of the world’s main papers, and even the previous U.S. Vice President and one-time presidential candidate Al Gore, who joined the battle in opposition to local weather change in 2001, has requested the DMI for permission to make use of the image in his efforts to persuade the world that motion is urgently wanted to forestall a looming local weather catastrophe.
Full story right here (paywalled)
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