CNN Visualizes Climate Change-Driven Arctic Melt With 360-Degree VR Video (cnn.com)

dryriver writes: CNN has put up a slickly produced and somewhat alarming 360-degree browser video experience that allows the viewer to see firsthand what arctic melt looks like in Greenland. The video takes the viewer to the "Ground Zero" of climate change. Throughout the 7-minute long video, the viewer can interactively look around the locations visited. Voice narration and various scientists featured in the video explain what is happening in the Arctic, what causes the melting, and what the potential consequences are for the world.

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Re:Fake News

[DNS-and-BIND]

CNN does a pretty good job scaring people. A man produced a short video making fun of them, and when Trump retweeted it, they threatened him into silence. They forced him to apologize, delete all his social media posts, and forever remain silent under pain of being doxxed.This happened. Their confession is right here. This wasn't some mafia don, CNN did this. It wasn't just to silence the offender, but to pre-emptively silence anyone else from attempting to mock CNN, as stated in their confession. Honestly I don't know how they got away with it without being prosecuted. Yes, they can be very scary.

Extend of sea ice

[Geoffrey.landis]

If you wish to prove a point, claiming "I already did!'" is not evidence. Global warming is happening, but you must be consistent and not lie to convince others. 2017 arctic ice is within historical norms unless very, very careful selection of beginning and ending years to start at peaks (1972, 1981, 1996, 2008) and end in valleys (1985, 1995, 2007, 2013, 2016).

I agree with your points that it's important to be careful with data, but no, at the moment it looks like Arctic ice is significantly lower than historical norms. Here's the graph as of last month: http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicen...

Interactive chart is here: https://nsidc.org/arcticseaice...

If you want total volume, and not coverage, the best data is from the NASA GRACE mission (measuring gravity). That mission is now over. But here's data: http://polarportal.dk/en/groen... , and here's a visualization through 2014: https://gracefo.jpl.nasa.gov/r...