31 Jul 09 -
Today the Daily Mail Reporter ran a series of photographs
showing the rapid advance of the
But their headline shouted "How global
warming is changing the face of the northern hemisphere."
Then the article tries to persuade us
that the glacier "is melting away."
The Breidamerkurjokull glacier has
descended from the mountains into a lagoon over the past 30 years, the
story continues, and has shown no sign of moving back.
"Over this time professional
photographer Ragnar Sigurdsson has been documenting the alarming
phenomenon that has been taking place."
"In these exclusive pictures, Mr
Sigurdsson shows just how fragile our ever changing world is and the
sheer beauty of a landscape, that if left unprotected, will disappear
into the sea."
"The arresting changes have left the
lagoon packed with lumps of melting glacial ice that are melting and
flowing into the sea.
"In the past, the beautiful
lagoon remained unfrozen even in winter except for the occasional
"But now, as these aerial images show,
it appears like a solid mass even in the summer ... the rapid influx of
ice is seen as a chilling reminder that greenhouses gases are altering
See entire misleading
article and photos
Thanks to Andrew in the UK for this link
"It looks to me like a
glacier that is growing is being touted as
actually melting away
because of global warming," says Andrew.
"Looks like we are now experiencing
bare-faced lies to maintain
the warming myth."
example of slanted, lazy reporting and a closed mind-set,"
says Ian Steere in
Ashtead, England. "A glacier expands rapidly,
but you introduce your
article with the opposite message and
present the event as a
symptom of global warming."