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Blaze: Climate change 'saved' America from icy doom

The study centers on the Barnes Ice Cap on Baffin Island, which began shrinking around nineteen sixty; the scientists behind it say it is no reason to celebrate.

On air: Hank Ledger and Gloria Vance on The Bonk-o-Meter
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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTheBlaze says man-made climate change saved America from icy doom, and that the alarmists may have been way off about everything.

  2. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe study itself is about the Barnes Ice Cap on Baffin Island, the last remnant of the once-huge Laurentide Ice Sheet.

  3. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo the evidence for is an ice cap that started growing again about two thousand years ago.

  4. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAnd then around nineteen sixty it abruptly began to shrink as summer temperatures rose, KSL reports.

  5. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorStudy author Nicolás Young says the next glaciation was about to happen, and yet it stopped.

  6. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorStopped. He did not say rescued.

  7. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAnother researcher, Barker, estimated that without human influence the next glaciation would come within eleven thousand years. America was not exactly waiting by the door.

  8. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAnd Barker warned against reading a delayed ice age as good news, citing rising seas, extreme weather and biodiversity loss.

  9. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorSo the catch is the entire rest of the study.

  10. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorRating: Full Bonkers. The ice cap is real, the headline's thank-you is not.

  11. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe scientists ask for no applause, and the outlet printed the applause anyway.

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