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  • Essay / Is a mini ice age imminent? - 1333

    Media propaganda abounds with announcements of a “mini-ice age” in our mists. We are constantly inundated with Hollywood films depicting global destruction accompanied by rapid climate change. Are all these news media accurate and describing true and accurate events covering our planet and solar activity? As the reader begins to delve deeper into the rhetoric, they will notice that there is very little - if any - scientific data to support the arrival of a "mini-ice age" (Mann), as indicated by the multiple media companies. As many scientists have pointed out, we are facing global climate change – they just haven't confirmed it's a "mini-ice age." Hollywood has hyped up the end of the world with films such as "The Day After Tomorrow" (Emmerich) in which the Earth undergoes cataclysmic environmental changes in a matter of days. With the release of this film, NASA immediately became concerned (Revkin) about how fantasy would affect reality and initially instructed its scientific community not to comment on the subject or the film. As with many topics, if someone is uneducated on a subject, they tend to believe the Hollywood impression and the added hype created by the mainstream media to sell newspapers and/or magazines. Sometimes some writers remove specific words or phrases altogether. context by experts and government agencies to give the appearance of validity to their stories. For example, when Mr. Lewis Page (Page) wrote his article for The Register – “Earth could be headed for a mini-ice age within a decade” – he cited numerous expert and government references; however, his quotes included only partial sentences and many misleading comments. If anyone was... middle of paper ......egister, June 14, 2011. Web. September 12, 2011. .Plait, Phil. “Are we heading towards a new ice age?.” Bad astronomy. Discover Magazine, June 17, 2011. Web. September 12 2011.. 2011. .