Ignorance, blindness, and outright misinformation
A childhood acquaintance on Facebook posted a link to a CBN News article that serves as a good example of what is wrong with conservative news media. Written by Dale Hurd, it is a mash-up of science denier canards with little in the way of actual science or evidence. The first paragraph sets the tone, making fun of the scientists who were trapped in Antarctic ice. Nowhere does Hurd mention HOW the scientists were trapped: A storm packed sea ice into the bay their ship was in. Now this can happen at any time of the year but it doesn't mean that the ice is growing. It's summer down in Antarctica, a time when Antarctic sea ice melts from ~19 million km 2 in September down to ~2-3 million km 2 by March. That leaves plenty of broken pack ice for winds to blow around, especially in the early part of the melt season such as December when the ship was trapped. So the irony is that those scientists were trapped by MELTING sea ice, an irony completely los...