Time Magazine Pushes Phony ‘Global Cooling’ Meme With Cartoon Penguin

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In a Time magazine issue dated September 23, 2013, the “Briefing” section that quotes Russell Brand, Michele Bachmann, and John Kerry also briefly mentions global warming. But using less than two dozen words, it gets it very, very wrong.
The blurb, right in the front of the magazine, suggested that a one-year jump in Arctic sea ice extent could mean “global cooling”:

60%: Increase in ice-covered ocean water since last year, leading some scientists to believe that the planet is actually undergoing “global cooling”

It even has a graphic of a chilly-looking penguin wearing a scarf and a hat with a pom-pom. Blurbs like this make even the most casual reader perk up and ask some questions.

Do penguins live in the Arctic?
No. Not at all.

Is there really “global cooling”?
No. Across the world in August, the average temperature was the 4th-highest on record, according to NOAA.



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http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/09/17/2627501/time-global-cooling-pushback/

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1. Penguins may be used to show Antarctica is cool

Maybe they are misled because the planets surface stopped warming last decade

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