My Correction Printed on the New York Review of Books
I had sent a rather longer letter on March 15 but I appreciate their honesty in recognizing their mistake.
The New York Review of Books
Volume 54, Number 8 · May 10, 2007
Letter – CORRECTIONS By The Editors – In response to Warning on Warming (March 15, 2007)
In Bill McKibben’s “Warning on Warming” [NYR, March 15], the caption to the two photographs of the Upsala Glacier in Patagonia, Argentina, taken in 1928 and 2004 should have said that most of the glacier visible in the 1928 photograph had melted by 2004. Today the glacier still covers over eight hundred square kilometers.
Like that makes much difference –
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/sci_nat_how_the_world_is_changing/html/1.stm
milo
2007/Jul/02 at 14:22:01
Eight hundred square kilometers compared to what? one or two…
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