Bloomberg and David Hik: Foolishness or fraud?

Claim on Bloomberg.com: "Greenland, Antarctica Glaciers Speeding Faster Toward the Sea"

“The loss of ice is pretty spectacular,” [David Hik, executive director of the Canadian secretariat of the International Polar Year], a professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, said today in a telephone interview from Geneva. “The big outflow glaciers on Greenland are accelerating their discharge as well.”

Jennifer Marohasy » No Reporting of Slowing Greenland Glaciers: Shame on the MSM

Last Friday there was an article in one of the most read science journals, Science, entitled “Galloping Glaciers of Greenland have Reined Themselves In” by Richard A. Kerr.

Yes, as the title suggests, the article explains that a wide-ranging survey of glacier conditions across south eastern Greenland, indicates that glacier melt has slowed significantly and that it would be wrong to attribute the higher rates of melt prior to 2005 to global warming or to extrapolate the higher melt rates of a few years ago into the future. [2]