MSM Fails to do its homework again

The Arctic Ice is melting and we are at fault.

from the BBC

The area covered by sea ice in the Arctic has shrunk for a fourth consecutive year, according to new data released by US scientists.

They say that this month sees the lowest extent of ice cover for more than a century.

The Arctic climate varies naturally, but the researchers conclude that human-induced global warming is at least partially responsible.

The Seattle Times

40% of Arctic ice cap will be gone by midcentury, Seattle scientists say Global warming will shrink the Arctic ice cap much faster than previously expected, Seattle scientists reported today. About 40 percent of the ice that usually blankets the top of the world during the summer will be gone by 2050, according to a new analysis. Earlier studies had predicted it would be nearly a century before that much ice vanished.

ABC Australia

Arctic ice break raises global warming fears Researchers have confirmed that an enormous ice shelf broke away from Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic last year and they warn it could be another symptom of global warming.

Looks like weve done it. Mankind by driving our SUV's and heating our homes has done away with the ICE CAP. I'd certainly believe that. If living in Florida Hadn't made me something of a weather junkie. So this headline from Accuweather caught my eye

Recent Rapid Decline in Sea Ice caused by Unusual Winds, says NASA

Whats even more interesting is exactly what NASA had to say

Nghiem said the rapid decline in winter perennial ice the past two years was caused by unusual winds. "Unusual atmospheric conditions set up wind patterns that compressed the sea ice, loaded it into the Transpolar Drift Stream and then sped its flow out of the Arctic," he said. When that sea ice reached lower latitudes, it rapidly melted in the warmer waters. "The winds causing this trend in ice reduction were set up by an unusual pattern of atmospheric pressure that began at the beginning of this century," Nghiem said.

So what is opening up the northwest passage ? Not lack of ice formation just a change in how its being formed and where it winds up. Global warming NO. Winds yes.

Does this story get the headlines the global warming narrative got ?

This is of the persistent pattern of the dinosaur media. Push the story that advances the agenda, bury anything that contradicts. Hurricane season predicted to be record (Page1) Hurricane season fizzles (page 32). If its weather and you don't know how to explain it blame global warming.

We can live with this kind of thing in the Weekly World News. Can we live with it on all the broadcast networks and major papers ?