Mauri Pelto

Professor of Environmental Science, Associate Dean, Nichols College

Expertise: Glaciology

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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..

Analysis of “Wake up, Obama, climate change has been happening forever”

in New York Post, by Betsy McCaughey

— 10 Sep 2015

"the evidence of accelerating glacier melt and retreat in response to manmade warming is crystal clear. Any other conclusion is willfully ignoring the data, the facts, and the conc..