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'Unprecedented' Greenland Surface Melt - Every 150 Years?

dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com 25 Jul '12, 5pm

'Unprecedented' Greenland Surface Melt – Every 150 Years? - New York Times (blog): New York Times (blog)'Unprece...

Jesse Allen, NASA Earth Observatory; Nicolo E. DiGirolamo, SSAI and Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory Extent of surface melt over Greenland’s ice sheet on July 8, 2012 (left), and July 12, 2012 (right). Measurements from three satellites showed that on July 8, about 40 percent of the ice sheet had undergone thawing at or near the surface. In just a few days, the melting had dramatically accelerated and an estimated 97 percent of the ice sheet surface had thawed by July 12. The flow of news releases and background science content from NASA is generally excellent, but the space agency badly blew it earlier this week with this headline, which has now reverberated around the Web : “Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt .” Unprecedented means “never done or known before .” Yet the news release beneath the headline directly undercuts that description of thi...

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@DartGradStudy » 02 Aug '12, 2pm
Check out Dartmouth graduate student Kaitlin Keegan in the New York Times! [link]
@alyalloverr » 01 Aug '12, 9pm
so uhm 94% of Greenland just melted in July [link]
@loudn » 01 Aug '12, 5pm
‘Unprecedented’ Greenland Surface Melt - 97% Ice surface melt in July, NASA claims this Happens every 150 years, [link] via...
@antarcticaxxi » 27 Jul '12, 6pm
RT @GlacierChange: A longer view of the 'unprecedented' Greenland surface melt of 2012... [link]
@ArcticInstitute » 27 Jul '12, 1pm
"Unprecedented" battle of the headlines re #greenland melt event. Climate Progress [link] vs. NYT [link]
@Jeff_d_corbin » 26 Jul '12, 9pm
Nice reporting by @Revkin to look beyond the headline. But wanna bet that freq of xtreme melting >>s? #LoadingTheDice [link]
@rivrchik » 26 Jul '12, 9pm
RT @Revkin: Super Arctic Inst analysis of overheated Greenland Meltdown coverage [link] @dotearth take: [link]
@gfriend » 26 Jul '12, 9pm
MT @revkin: Super @ArcticInstitute analysis of overheated Greenland Melt coverage [link] @dotearth take: [link]
@Revkin » 26 Jul '12, 9pm
Super Arctic Institute analysis of flood of overheated Greenland Meltdown coverage [link] @dotearth take: [link]
@DaveFLoewen » 26 Jul '12, 6pm
'Unprecedented' #Greenland Surface #Melt - Every 150 Years? - [link] [link] #Globalwarming #environment
@icey_mark » 26 Jul '12, 5pm
@KnockJohn I thought Dr Hanna did well. The scientist who gave those quotes has qualified her answer here [link]
@JmacDotOrg » 26 Jul '12, 5pm
Some temperance on the "Greenland is melting" story, via Mike Sierra. [link]
@Dogmanblue » 26 Jul '12, 2pm
RT @DSchvejda: .@Revkin - ‘Unprecedented’ Greenland Surface Melt – Every 150 Years? [link] #climate
@TheMapAddict » 26 Jul '12, 2pm
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@klederson » 26 Jul '12, 1pm
é... groelândia 97% derretida [link] 2012 promete =/
@BarryJWoods » 26 Jul '12, 9am
fixed RT @etzpcm "How NASA scientists misled the public and media with a deceptive graph" Revkin [link] [link]
@BarryJWoods » 26 Jul '12, 8am
RT @etzpcm: @dougmcneall @aDissentient So what do you think of this graph from NASA 'scientists'? [link]
@etzpcm » 26 Jul '12, 8am
@dougmcneall @aDissentient So what do you think of this graph from NASA 'scientists'? [link]
@etzpcm » 26 Jul '12, 8am
How NASA scientists misled the public and media with a deceptive graph @flimsin @icey_mark [link] [link]
@GarthGodsman » 26 Jul '12, 7am
@sspencer_63 You might want to read what the NYT's Andy Revkin had to say about that story [link]
@mbalter » 26 Jul '12, 5am
NYTimes: 'Unprecedented' Greenland Surface Melt – Every 150 Years? [link]
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'Unprecedented' Greenland Surface Melt - Every 150 Years? - [link] - [link] #sellingfear
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@pdbuckland » 26 Jul '12, 1am
I said I'd avoid politics & such but...Greenland is melting people. #climatedeniers best wake up. [link] Thanks @Revkin
@oParasiteSingle » 25 Jul '12, 11pm
#ClimateChange #heatwave catastrophic melt in Greenland #glaciers [link] scientists caught w/ pants down [link]
@alexwitze » 25 Jul '12, 10pm
RT @Eaterofsun: Typically excellent post on Greenland ice by @revkin [link]
@Eaterofsun » 25 Jul '12, 10pm
Typically excellent post on Greenland ice by @revkin [link]
@haivanhuynh » 25 Jul '12, 10pm
Scientists shocked at rapid Greenland icesheet melt. [link] How come I'm not?
@AstroKatie » 25 Jul '12, 8pm
@ebertchicago Well, not really though: [link]
@jesseknoll » 25 Jul '12, 7pm
Thank you @dotearth for having the guts to write this amid climate change histeria... [link] #contextiscritical
@QualAlbatroz » 25 Jul '12, 6pm
Dot Earth: 'Unprecedented' Greenland Surface Melt – Every 150 Years?: A wide surface melting event on G... [link] (Nature)
@Smallbizlabs » 25 Jul '12, 6pm
Good article on the science behind Greenland's ice melt: [link]
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'Unprecedented' Greenland Surface Melt - Every 150Yrs? [link] via [link] Revkin acts as corp tool, again.typical
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@Skepteco » 25 Jul '12, 10pm
RT @Eaterofsun: Typically excellent post on Greenland ice by @revkin [link]
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RT @Eaterofsun: Typically excellent post on Greenland ice by @revkin [link]
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