ROTHERA RESEARCH STATION, ANTARCTICA – A Calgary researcher, who has spent the last eight months in Antarctica studying sea ice, says he has seen first-hand how big an effect climate change has...
“Right now it’s serious. It’s really bad. If you look at the overall area of the sea ice, the area is almost one million square kilometres less than the previous lowest which was in 1986.”
It suggests that the ice had receded to a degree not seen since 1986, when in fact it’s quite a lot worse.
The headline is not technically correct.
It suggests that the ice had receded to a degree not seen since 1986, when in fact it’s quite a lot worse.
Maybe my English comprehension is faulty, but I’ve always interpreted “lowest since X” to mean the current level is at least as low as it was in X…