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6 February 2010
Yale Climate and Media Analysis of IPCC Glacier Mistake
The Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media have a very good piece on the now famous IPCC error on how fast glaciers in the Himalayas are really melting. An interesting (perhaps) sidebar is that I saw this number of 2035 quoted, and assumed it to be a typo. I thought that what was really meant was 2135. I wonder how many others made the same assumption and thought …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.