Media propaganda abounds with announcements of a “mini ice age” in our fog. We are constantly inundated with Hollywood films depicting global destruction with an onslaught of rapid global climate change. Are all these media outlets accurate and describing true and accurate events regarding our planet and solar activity? When the reader begins to look deeper into the rhetoric, they will notice that there is very little – if any – scientific data to support the advent of a “mini ice age” (Mann), as indicated by multiple media companies. As many scientists have pointed out, we are experiencing global climate change – they just haven't confirmed that it's a “mini ice age.” Hollywood has sensationalized the end of the world with films like “The Day After Tomorrow” (Emmerich) in which the earth undergoes catastrophic environmental changes in a matter of days. With the release of this film, NASA immediately became concerned (Revkin) about how fantasy would influence reality and initially issued instructions to the scientific community not to comment on the topic or the film. As with many issues, if someone is uneducated on a topic, they tend to believe the Hollywood impression and the additional hype that the mainstream media creates to sell newspapers and/or magazines. Sometimes, some writers will completely eliminate context-specific words or phrases from experts and government agencies to give the appearance of validity to their stories. For example, when Mr. Lewis Page (Page) wrote his article for The Register – “Earth could enter a mini ice age within a decade” – he cited many expert and government references; however, his quotes included only partial sentences and many misleading comments. If anyone were......middle of paper......egister, June 14, 2011. Web. September 12, 2011. .Treccia, Phil. “Are we headed for a new ice age?” Bad astronomy. Discover Magazine, June 17, 2011. Web. September 12 2011.. 2011. .
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