Arctic ice loss was hyped: ‘ There’s a terrible sense of deja vu about this story — Winds ‘wreaked havoc on the Arctic sea ice cover’ — ‘This is exactly what happened in 2007’
2007 'when weeks of hype was followed by a quiet admission that the root cause of the loss of ice was winds and ocean currents. I had put the possibility that the 2012 ice loss was similarly down to factors other than global warming to Mark Brandon, a polar regions scientist. He agreed that this was very much a possibility and decried the poor coverage of the issue in the media'
