Are Climate Scientists Liars?

Re: the meme here, a reader offers this dare:  I challenge you to go to a climate science convention, get up on stage, present this image and then give a talk on why you think it is true… and then take questions from the scientists in the room.

Yes, he’d be laughed off the stage, but not for the reason you might think.  The truth here lies in the deliberately dishonest way that the data is presented.

The ice on the Antarctic is shrinking fast, but the ice in the oceans that surround the continent are remaining essentially unchanged.

Here’s an article called Antarctic Ice Loss Is Significant, Contrary to Claims.  An excerpt:

Antarctica is losing ice mass to the ocean, contributing to global sea level rise. But a popular video misrepresented work focused on Antarctic ice shelves — which float in the sea at the edges of the continent — to incorrectly suggest that “it is unclear if Antarctica is losing any ice on balance.”

The Antarctic ice sheet is a vast mass of ice, accumulated over millennia via snowfall, that sits atop bedrock, covering nearly all of Antarctica. As the ice spreads outward and meets the ocean, some of it begins to float. These floating ice platforms, which surround about three-quarters of Antarctica, are called ice shelves.

Antarctic land ice loss into the ocean is an increasingly important contributor to global sea level rise. In contrast, ice shelf loss doesn’t directly cause sea level rise, as the ice is already floating in the ocean and displacing water.

In actuality, there is no climate “debate.”  There are exhaustive studies, the results of which have been published in peer-reviewed papers over the last 50+ years, and there are folks, including Big Oil, whose political agendas focus on referring to these scientists as “liars.”  That’s the raw simplicity, pathetic as it may be.