Doncs, no. No era el canvi climàtic. La causa que aquest any l'Àrtic hagi sofert un desgel més pronunciat que en anys anterior no és atribuible a l'escalfament global provocat pel CO2, mare de totes les catàstrofes, sinó a uns vents inusuals. Així ho assegura
un informe elaborat, no per cap científic comprat per la indústria petrolera, sinó per la NASA. Com era de preveure,
la internacional mediàtica, després d'amargar-nos l'estiu amb aquest nou conte de por, ha optat per ignorar l'informe i no publicar-ne ni una sola línia. No fós cas que la realitat de les dades desmentís tan fantàstica teoria.
Assume for a moment that a new study by NASA proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that manmade global warming was indeed responsible for the recent ice melts in the Arctic. Think media would have reported it?
In reality, that's a bit of a trick question, for in the past several weeks, television newscasts, papers, and magazines have been filled with hysterical assertions about decreasing Arctic ice levels destined to cause imminent flooding to coastal regions around the world.
As such, it certainly was no surprise when NASA released a report Monday claiming "the rapid decline in winter perennial ice the past two years was caused by unusual winds," virtually no media outlets shared the information with the citizenry, and those that did still blamed the melting ice on - you guessed it - global warming.
