120 Cubic Miles Of Bald-Faced Climate Lies From The Ever-Reliable New York Post
Thanks to a column that ran in the New York Post a few days ago I think I might now know the physical size of climate science denial – it’s about 500 cubic kilometres. For those still working in imperial measurements (that’s you America), this is about 120 cubic miles.
The New York Post column by two climate science denialists claimed that “the ice caps aren’t melting”. Yet a recent assessment published in March 2014 in the journal The Cryosphere used new satellite measurements to estimate that the world’s major ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are now shrinking at the rate of about 500 cubic kilometres a year.
That’s a lot of ice to deny is melting. Perhaps they missed it because it’s gone? But just how much is it? If you took all the ice disappearing every year from Antarctic and Greenland and covered Manhattan Island with it, you’d have a chunk of ice more than five miles high.
For those taking part in the climate change march in the Big Apple on Sunday, or for those watching it, you might want to look to the skies and try and imagine just how much ice that actually is.
EDIT
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2014/sep/18/why-climate-science-denial-courtesy-of-the-new-york-post-measures-five-miles-high
