Mann versus the Provincial Parrots « Climate Audit

Roman M and TomRude have observed an interesting letter writing campaign in which Michael Mann contests adverse opinion in provincial newspapers, accusing the letter writers of being “parrots”.

Today (July 31, 2010), Mann sent the following letter to the Saint John (New Brunswick) Telegraph Journal objecting to a letter published July 30. Similar letters were sent on July 22 to the Fredericton (New Brunswick) Daily Gleaner and on July 29 to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Warmers heating up again!

And this constant Warmer canard gets me most of all...

91% of the worlds glacier ice is in the Antarctica, where temperatures are -40c. Ice melts at 0c. Are they seriously suggesting a 40 degree celcius rise in temperature? No. Nobody is. The more extremist Warmers are predicting 4 degrees. Get the difference? Now, the north polar area is sea ice. So every time they shout about northern sea ice melting, and "The Northern Passage is finally open!" I shudder. These people are so ignorant they don't even know Archimedes principle. That is, floating ice that melts doesn't raise the water level. It's a known fact for about 2,500 years. And these people scream about science. Lux in tenebris lucet!