Vincent J. Curtis
2 Sept 22
RE: Zombie ice. Letter by Richard MacKinnon.
RE: Kushner’s Error. Letter by Robert Brant.
For a newspaper so concerned about misinformation, I was astonished to see published in the Spectator todayletters that so misinformed the public. The letter from Richard MacKinnon was noteworthy, not just for nonsensical forecasts, but for false statements of fact.
According to the Danish Meteorological Institute, Greenland gained 471 billion tonnes of snow over the last twelve months. That is about 100 billion tonnes above the 1981-2010 average, and four of the last six years have seen above average annual snowfall on Greenland. About 21 billion tonnes of snow fell between August 26 and 31. The summer melt season is over.
Greenland’s Jakobshavn glacier continues to grow, and the Petermann glacier has grown about a kilometer per year for the last ten years.
The facts do not support MacKinnon’s panicked statements about a “complete net ice loss” and tipping points producing a 720 cm rise in sea level. Not even the nuttiest inmate of IPCC is predicting that. Greenland goes through cycles, and the last time there was a media panic attack over Greenland ice was 70 years ago. The facts do not support panic over Greenland ice. (If sea levels rose 720 cm, it would drown Barak Obama’s $17M home on Martha’s Vineyard! He stopped the rise of the oceans for that place!)
Robert Brant alleges the Donald Trump “can
neither read, write, spell, nor pronounce words.” Somehow, this New York City real estate billionaire
tycoon became president through the power of this words, and people fear him
for his power over crowds. Not bad for a
guy who’s allegedly illiterate and talks funny.
If the Spectator is serious about “turning off the rage machine” as it
says in today’s editorial, it can start with the raging over Trump.
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