Arctic Ice is Melting

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_070908/content/01125109.guest.html

Claim: Do you know the amount of ice in the arctic this month (July 9 2008) versus this month 20 years ago is identical?

False: Rush doesn’t give us a link to these graphs that supposedly depict the fact that Arctic ice isn’t melting. Scientists would certainly disagree with this claim. Note Section 2 and the photograph on this site (http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/qthinice.asp). I really want to know where Rush got his information. I read through the background material he provided it isn’t there. The only proof we have that the arctic ice isn’t melting is from the mouth of a conspiracy nut. A friendly piece of advice, if you say you have evidence then it is best that you provide a source to it. Otherwise your claim will easily be debunked. Claims that have no evidence can be disproven without evidence (thank you Christopher Hitchens). I feel I’m being courteous by actually providing evidence to disprove a statement that has no evidence. The real hilarity here though is one of the articles that Rush provides at the end of the article. It disputes Rush’s long-standing claim that climate change is a hoax. It acknowledges that climate change is real! (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060921123321.htm). I suppose I shouldn’t be shocked at the fact that Rush is cherry-picking facts. It really does beg the question of whether or not he actually believes the whole thing is a hoax. It may be possible that he just found a way to profit from becoming a prominent voice in the world of climate change deniers.