"Doesn't Fit MSM Narrative": Latest Arctic Ice Data Shows 26% Larger Than 2012
Climate realist Tony Heller took to X to highlight the climate misinformation and disinformation campaigns waged by far-left corporate media on the global public.
Heller referenced a 2007 BBC News article titled 'Arctic summers ice-free 'by 2013',' which warned readers of the supposed threat that 'latest modeling studies indicate northern polar waters could be ice-free in summers within just 5-6 years.'
The BBC article's baseless claim was designed to instill climate fears across the public to ram through a radical de-growth climate agenda across the Western world.
Heller then cited NOAA Sea Ice Extent data of the Arctic from Sept. 16, 2012, and Sept. 7, 2024, and found:
This year's minimum Arctic sea ice extent was 26% larger than 2012. @BBCNews said the Arctic would be ice-free by 2013.'
This year's minimum Arctic sea ice extent was 26% larger than 2012. @BBCNews said the Arctic would be ice-free by 2013.https://t.co/HphrKQEGqehttps://t.co/0lYsJCyfm2https://t.co/NWyPy8DujC pic.twitter.com/q6uLF0cWyy — Tony Heller (@TonyClimate) December 26, 2024
2012 NOAA Sea Ice Extent data
2024 NOAA Sea Ice Extent data
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