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Many climate change alarmists were in full panic mode on Wednesday after scientists announced that a truly massive sheet of ice weighing 1 trillion tons and the size of Delaware had finally broken off of the continent. The fear continued during the evening broadcasts of the Big Three Networks as ABC and NBC were more than happy to contribute to the hysteria.
“At the bottom of the world tonight a massive fracture on the continent of Antarctica has caused one of the biggest icebergs on record to break away into the ocean. It's so big it could fill Lake Erie twice over,” hyped Anchor Lester Holt during NBC Nightly News. “NBC News National Correspondent Miguel Almaguer with the extraordinary details.”
National Correspondent Miguel Almaguer cranked up the horror right out of the gate when he declared: “Tonight in Antarctica, a titanic shift in our planet's landscape … Its size is stunning, a block of ice weighing 1 trillion tons, roughly the size of Delaware.” He did briefly admit that ice shelf breaks were “not unusual,” but he followed it up by claiming that “this event is redefining geography.”
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