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UN SECRETARY GENERAL ICE FLOW PUBLICITY STUNT MISLEADING |
September 5, 2009: "Arctic ice proves to be slippery stuff - The extent of the sea-ice is now half a million square kilometres more than it was this time last year, says Christopher Booker", Daily Telegraph, London, United Kingdom. "BBC viewers were treated last week to the bizarre spectacle of Mr. Ban Ki-moon standing on an Arctic ice-floe making a series of statements so laughable that it was hard to believe such a man can be Secretary-General of the UN. Thanks to global warming, he claimed, "100 billion tons" of polar ice are melting each year, so that within 30 years the Arctic could be "ice-free". This was supported by a WWF claim that the ice is melting so fast that, by 2100, sea-levels could rise by 1.2 metres (four feet), which would lead to "floods affecting a quarter of the world". Everything about this oft-repeated item was propaganda of the silliest kind." Read the whole piece.  Graph showing daily Arctic sea ice extent since June 2002, by courtesy of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The thin blue line indicates the daily Arctic sea ice extent, while the thicker red line indicates the running 365 day average sea ice extent. Latest diagram update: 4 September 2009.
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