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Alexander Robel
Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech
Expertise: Ice sheet flow, Iceberg calving
Details:
Qualifying publication(s): see criteria
ARTICLES REVIEWED
Grist article on an “Ice Apocalypse” mostly accurate, but doesn’t make the likelihood of that apocalypse clear enough to readers
in Grist, by Eric Holthaus
— 28 Nov 2017
"The article has a bias, emphasizing the high end scenarios of ice sheet behavior, avoiding scrutiny of model assumptions. The concept of marine ice cliff instability and how unusu..
CLAIMS REVIEWED
Blaze article badly misrepresents study of Greenland’s Jakobshavn Glacier
CLAIM
[O]ne of the previously fastest shrinking glaciers in the world is growing again, calling into question the narrative that rapid climate change [...] poses a significant threat to the existence of the human race
SOURCE: Chris Enloe, The Blaze
Published: 29 Mar 2019
VERDICT
