‘Media hype’: Climatologist Dr. Pielke Sr.: NASA on claims of ‘sudden massive melt in Greenland’: ‘There was no ‘massive melt’
Pielke Sr.: 'The term 'massive' implies that the melt involved large masses of the Greenland icecap. They could have written 'Sudden Extensive, Short-Term Surface Melting On the Greenland Icecap', but instead chose to overstate what is a short-term weather event. the real news story is the overstatement of this weather event by the media (and some scientists at NASA)'