Ignore the white elephant

Mysterious California Glaciers Keep Growing Despite Warming

You have to love these sentences;

Although Mount Shasta's glaciers are growing, researchers say the 4.7 billion cubic feet of ice on its flanks could be gone by 2100.
The Shasta glaciers have been advancing since the end of a drought in the early 20th century. The mountain's smallest glaciers — named Konwakiton, Watkins and Mud Creek — have more than doubled in length since 1950.

So, lets keep everyone on message, just ignore the data and...

Climate change is causing roughly 90 percent of the world's mountain glaciers to shrink, said Thompson, the Ohio State glacier expert.

"Best that we keep our eye on the big picture," Thompson said in an e-mail about Shasta's unique position. "The picture points unfortunately (to) massive loss of ice on land, which has huge implications for future sea level rise."

It almost seems as if the writer is trying to say that this may be a natural phenomenon, but his editors kept sending him back to make the "proper" corrections until the story said what they wanted it to. Read the whole thing and you will see what I mean.
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