from WorldClimatReport:"In the intervening year since the announcement of the discovery of the island by the Times, a website has been set up to tell the tale of warming island, documentary filmmakers have mobilized, and you can even book ecotours to go see for yourself “perhaps the greatest visual evidence of global warming.” And, who is giving such tours a lot of press coverage? You guess it, the New York Times .
Rather than the New York Times announcing the “discovery” of “Warming Island,” in actuality, it seems that what they were really reporting on was the rediscovery of an island that had been shown to have been such 50 years prior. Funny how Hofer didn’t issue a big press release about the Island’s existence—oh yeah, back then the warm up was being described as “a climate improvement” by one of the most prominent Arctic researchers of the day (Ahlmann, 1953). My how times have changed!
Certainly, this fact—that “Warming Island” has been shown to have been an island as recently as the 1950s—had it been known the Times, would have tempered its enthusiasm for the story, for the claims made by Denis Schmitt that he had discovery it, and all of the hype that it ushered forth."
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