Clarification from Greenpeace
Greenpeace is asking people to spread the word about a clarification they made regarding certain accusations. They’re also making the usual request to tag the posts with “greenpeacebuzz”, but just writing the word will have to do because I’m certainly not planning to use tags.
The accusation seems to be that they have exaggerated the impact of climate change on the Arctic by saying that Arctic ice could be gone during the summer by 2030, when in fact only the sea ice could be completely gone by then. Their explanation seems fair enough, as the term “ice cap” and its variants are generally used in reference to the ice floating on water, but it’s still a bad move to allow others to find such errors in your statements. It would be wise for them to start being more specific from now on, because there are plenty of people who are going to attack anyone who’s fighting for the environment even when they don’t have a justification for their attack, so even more so when they can actually find something to pick on.
That said, one could say that this particular accusation could be somewhat justified, so the clarification can only help. Not that scaring people when it comes to the environment is a bad thing; most don’t seem to listen to reason, or at least not enough to do something about it, so other means certainly have to be used, but we should be careful not to offer anyone weapons against us, at least not before we also have the means to silence them.
