NYT wrong on permafrost – ‘If It Makes People Believe, Is It Okay To Lie About Global Warming?’
While reading an article on Gather, something struck me as odd. The piece described how global warming was destroying a native village in western Alaska called Newtok. The article cited a CNN report lifted from the Warming Trends section of The New York Times. See Victim of Climate Change, a Town Seeks a Lifeline. The same story was repeated in Discover Magazine, The Nation and across the blogsphere.
What I found odd is there is nothing odd about what’s happening to Newtok and certainly nothing that qualifies a New York Times environmental reporter to declare its residents “the first climate refugees in the United States”. Here is what the NYT said:
“The earth beneath much of Alaska is not what it used to be. The permanently frozen subsoil, known as permafrost, upon which Newtok and so many other Native Alaskan villages rest, is melting, yielding to warming air temperatures and a warming ocean.”
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