False, Washington Post, Low Great Lakes Ice Levels Are Not Proof of Climate Change
By
H. Sterling Burnett
January 9, 2024
The Washington Post published a story claimi ata show that Great Lakes ice levels vary widely from year to year, and although this year’s current levels are low, that can change quickly, with the annual peak ice coverage not until March.
In the Washington Post story, “Great Lakes start 2024 with smallest amount of ice in at least 50 years,” reporter Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff writes:
The Great Lakes had the smallest amount of ice cover this New Year’s Day in at least the past 50 years and are on track to see less than the seasonal average this winter, according to government data. The decline comes during a five-decade drop in ice cover that experts say is due in part to human-caused climate change.
Rosenzweig-Ziff misses the ironic fact that the last time the Great Lakes ice coverage was this low in January was in the early 1970s, a time when global average temperatures were cooling, which many scientists claimed at the time could be a sign of a coming ice age. Warnings of the pending ice age were common in headlines at the time among mainstream media outlets.
https://climaterealism.com/2024/01/false-washington-post-low-great-lakes-ice-levels-are-not-proof-of-climate-change/
