By Paul Homewood

[Ed: Interesting the factcheckers cite a USA Today article to counter a peer-reviewed scientific journal]

This post came up on my Facebook today:

https://www.facebook.com/william.dunn.1238/posts/pfbid036joG1b82T95G59BVS3uTQT1wYL26XMEBFVyMWto8CdzfBhTWBQ7YecGyr9GREWxol

When you click on SEE WHY, this comes up:

And this is the story the Facebook censors don’t want you to see:

Quite why Facebook would want to rely on the USA Today for its source of science is a mystery. Perhaps they should have actually checked what real scientists are saying:

Abstract

The Antarctic continent has not warmed in the last seven decades, despite a monotonic increase in the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases.

In this paper, we investigate whether the high orography of the Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) has helped delay warming over the continent. To that end, we contrast the Antarctic climate response to CO₂-doubling with present-day orography to the response with a flattened AIS. To corroborate our…