Best example of glacier “experts'” total buy-in to the panic-mongering money train is in the NPR story below. They visited a glacier on top of a mountain in New Guinea–4 degrees off the equator–steaming jungle territory. The real story is that there’s a GLACIER 4 DEGREES from the EQUATOR. Amazing!
But, no, the panic-mongers have to go with the “it’s disappearing, we’ll all die!” message.
The story is a prototype of the scam influence messaging techniques and the messengers.
The authenticity of the messenger technique: Lonnie is a “leading glacier scientist,” etc, etc.
The number one “scientific” scare message technique: Take a “rate” and extrapolate it into the future. Lonnie witnessed 2 weeks of daily rain, saw the glacier melt 12 inches in those 2 weeks, calculated the rate, and extrapolated that into the future–“The glacier will disappear in 5 years AT THIS RATE!”
Let NPR do the scare-mongering for you:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129652700
“Lonnie Thompson, a professor of earth sciences at Ohio State University, led the team and what he witnessed shocked him: The glacier was literally melting under their feet.
Thompson tells NPR’s Guy Raz he has conducted 57 expeditions around the world, but this trip was unusual. It was the first one where he experienced rain on the glacier every day.
“Rain is probably the most effective way to … cause the ice to melt,” Thompson says. “So this was the first time you could see the surface actually lowering around you.”
While Thompson and his team were there drilling cores, he says, they witnessed the glacier drop 12 inches in just two weeks.
“If that’s representative of the annual ice loss on these glaciers,” he says, “you’re looking at losing over seven meters of ice in a year. Unfortunately, that glacier’s going to disappear in as little as five years if that rate continues.”
Well, Lonnie, it’s been 5 years since your scare-mongering.
FYI, the current weather conditions on Puncak Jaya? Heavy snow forecast for the next 18 days–a total of nearly 5 feet of snow is expected.
http://www.mountain-forecast.com/peaks/Puncak-Jaya/forecasts/4884
Typical scare techniques.
Lonnie Thompson is still at it–traveling the world with his “it’s all melting” hysteria.
NPR still publishes the scare stories.
We cannot let up. The truth will out.
But, no, the panic-mongers have to go with the “it’s disappearing, we’ll all die!” message.
The story is a prototype of the scam influence messaging techniques and the messengers.
The authenticity of the messenger technique: Lonnie is a “leading glacier scientist,” etc, etc.
The number one “scientific” scare message technique: Take a “rate” and extrapolate it into the future. Lonnie witnessed 2 weeks of daily rain, saw the glacier melt 12 inches in those 2 weeks, calculated the rate, and extrapolated that into the future–“The glacier will disappear in 5 years AT THIS RATE!”
Let NPR do the scare-mongering for you:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129652700
“Lonnie Thompson, a professor of earth sciences at Ohio State University, led the team and what he witnessed shocked him: The glacier was literally melting under their feet.
Thompson tells NPR’s Guy Raz he has conducted 57 expeditions around the world, but this trip was unusual. It was the first one where he experienced rain on the glacier every day.
“Rain is probably the most effective way to … cause the ice to melt,” Thompson says. “So this was the first time you could see the surface actually lowering around you.”
While Thompson and his team were there drilling cores, he says, they witnessed the glacier drop 12 inches in just two weeks.
“If that’s representative of the annual ice loss on these glaciers,” he says, “you’re looking at losing over seven meters of ice in a year. Unfortunately, that glacier’s going to disappear in as little as five years if that rate continues.”
Well, Lonnie, it’s been 5 years since your scare-mongering.
FYI, the current weather conditions on Puncak Jaya? Heavy snow forecast for the next 18 days–a total of nearly 5 feet of snow is expected.
http://www.mountain-forecast.com/peaks/Puncak-Jaya/forecasts/4884
Typical scare techniques.
Lonnie Thompson is still at it–traveling the world with his “it’s all melting” hysteria.
NPR still publishes the scare stories.
We cannot let up. The truth will out.
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