Alphonso Goor Wrote:
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Extent of Antarctic sea ice reaches record
> levels, scientists say
>
> Scientists have declared a new record has been set
> for the extent of Antarctic sea ice since records
> began.
>
> Satellite imagery reveals an area of about 20
> million square kilometres covered by sea ice
> around the Antarctic continent.
>
> Jan Lieser from the Antarctic Climate and
> Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) said
> the discovery was made two days ago.
>
> "This is an area covered by sea ice which we've
> never seen from space before," he said.
>
> "Thirty-five years ago the first satellites went
> up which were reliably telling us what area, two
> dimensional area, of sea ice was covered and we've
> never seen that before, that much area.
>
> "That is roughly double the size of the Antarctic
> continent and about three times the size of
> Australia."
>
> MOAR at
>
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-14/record-cover
> age-of-antarctic-sea-ice/5742668
>
> Of course, being good jornos they try to salvage
> the lie by finding some leftwingnut to say that
> more ice is actually a sign of global warming.
More Faux Newz propaganda