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posted by Fnord666 on Monday July 17 2017, @05:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the one-big-ice-cube dept.

(CNN)This week, a trillion-ton hunk of ice broke off Antarctica.

You probably know that. It was all over the Internet.

Among the details that have been repeated ad nauseam: The iceberg is nearly the size of Delaware, which prompted some fun musing on Twitter about where exactly Delaware is and how anyone is supposed to approximate the square footage of that US state. The ice, which has been named A68, represents more than 12% of the Larsen C ice shelf, a sliver on the Antarctic Peninsula. And most important: None of this has anything to do with man-made climate change.

The problem: That last detail -- the climate one -- is misleading at best.

At worst, it's wrong.

Some scientists think this has a lot to do with global warming.

I spent most of Thursday on the phone with scientists, talking to them about the huge iceberg off Antarctica and what it means. Here are my five takeaways.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/14/world/sutter-iceberg-antarctica-climate-change/index.html

[Warning: CNN autoplay video - Ed]


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @09:40AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @09:40AM (#540239)

    Could the editors remove click bait titles, I don't expect this on this site and my in built spam/crap news site/"could it be" filters mean I'll never see otherwise informative threads.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Monday July 17 2017, @09:48AM (2 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 17 2017, @09:48AM (#540240) Journal
    Informative? You didn't know that CNN had an unholy hunger for eyeballs?
    • (Score: 2) by mth on Monday July 17 2017, @12:45PM (1 child)

      by mth (2848) on Monday July 17 2017, @12:45PM (#540277) Homepage

      There is no "+1, Agree" mod, so I assume someone modded it informative because they agree with the message.

      By the way, I agree with it too. Just because the article has a clickbait title doesn't mean SN has to copy it as-is.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @02:59PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @02:59PM (#540332)

        I agree it is a clickbait title, but usually I just like to include the title of TFA rather than editorialize.