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February 10, 2017

Some 40,000 icebergs are created each year.

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Out of that 40,000, the New York Times can’t find one—in our supposedly perilous age of rampant global warming—that actually constitutes a threat to our well being.
The paper put together a scare-story on melting ice shelves and it couldn’t find a single genuinely scary example in a sample size of 40,000. There’s a good rule of thumb in sniffing out fake news. When a large newspaper gives a story the Super Bowl Halftime treatment, it’s making up for the fact that there’s no story after all. Iceberg Story, Slim | commentary

Posted by gerardvanderleun at February 10, 2017 7:25 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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