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Study Debunks Media’s Iceberg Alarmism: Antarctic Calving ‘Statistically Unexceptional’
by Anthony Watts  Dec 20, 2024 
 
In July 2017, CNN and a number of other media outlets posted stories about iceberg A-68 calving off of Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf, with CNN suggesting we should be “freaked out” about it because of climate change. CNN was wrong. [emphasis, links added]

It was based on an incomplete understanding of iceberg formation and calving, driven by a rush to judgment to further the false climate disaster narrative.


For example, CNN’s John D. Sutter wrote in this article: That huge iceberg should freak you out. Here’s why:

This doesn’t NOT look like climate change.

https://climatechangedispatch.com/study-antarctic-iceberg-calving-statistically-unexceptional/
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