More Global Warming

The quality of environmental news reporting has reached an all time low. Not only is it incomplete, it appears that the media, specifically newspapers, are attempting to scaremonger us into driving around in lentil powered cars are a result of their inaccurate postulations of doom.

The catalyst for my rage is an article published last Sunday November 20, 2005 by the newly compacted Independent on Sunday. In the article the journalist (Geoffrey Lean) suggested that sea levels were set to rise by 20-feet in the next ten minutes or so due to a recorded increase in the velocity of a specific Arctic ice mass.
Cue a mass of gay wale saving hysteria. What the esteemed Mr Lean, undoubtedly a student of paranoia, neglected to mention is that the glacier in question is in fact the fastest moving on record and prone to bouts of surging. Anybody with even an A-Level in geography would know that some glaciers do this as part of their dynamic equilibrium.

Secondly, thermal expansion of the oceans is responsible for a greater amount of sea level rise than melting ice.

Why are such unqualified people allowed to write about key issues and mislead the public?