Joe Romm at ThinkProgress
explains how the Daily Caller and other deniers completely distort the findings of a new study from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography on Arctic melt by claiming to have debunked the observed Arctic sea ice death spiral.
The study shows that the Arctic may go ice free more quickly than models led us to believe. In the new study, models showed a seasonally ice-free Arctic at just 2°C warming. Daily Caller, on the other hand, uses the study as the basis to claim that, "'irreversible' Arctic ice loss seems to be reversing itself."
Now, given that the Scripps press release has a similar title ("Arctic sea ice loss likely to be reversible"), this probably doesn't qualify as the most egregious spinning of a study. However, when Romm reached out to the study authors they clarified in no uncertain terms that, "the Daily Caller article…is incorrect."
What the paper actually found was that we haven't yet hit a tipping point, so IF we reduce emissions and IF we find a way to cool the planet, then Arctic sea ice may return.
Obviously, those are two very big ifs.
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