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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2039807/New-Times-Atlas-pulped-climate-change-exaggeration-row.html?ITO=1490 The power of maps to mislead.....And no-one's mentioned the UNDER estimation of global warming / ice melt that could result if someone in say 2040 takes this map as what Greenland was really like in 2011. Although I'm having trouble spotting any sea level rise at all in a recent image I obtained of Sveti Stefan, a tourist spot on the (slowly tectonically subsiding) Adriatic coast of Croatia, compared with images I have that were published in 1960 (the great thing about Mediterranean coastal images of course is the lack of much tidal range, for this sort of comparison). Maybe the fact that sea level rise doesn't seem to have hit us yet (except in subsidence areas such as the Maldives) is contributing to the difficulty of persuading people of the urgency of global warming. Dr Hillary Shaw School of Business, Management and Marketing Harper Adams University College Newport Shropshire TF10 8NB
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