Don’t worry, kids. Santa’s home isn’t really under water. The Associated Press just released an inaccurate photo.
The news organization is catching some heat after publishing a photo supposedly showing a large lake forming at the North Pole due to global warming. But the AP issued a formal retraction of the photo, admitting that the “lake” was a naturally formed small melt-pond that isn’t even at the North Pole. While the camera is supposed to be monitoring the North Pole, it had drifted hundreds of miles south.
When the photo began circulating, staunch believers of global warming automatically drew conclusions from the picture.
And why dont we talk about the north pole melting into a lake, the unspoken oil damage in the gulf of Mexico & mass deforestation occurring?
— Chrissy D (@Chrissytina_D) August 10, 2013
The appalling effect of #climatechange. Don’t wait anymore, ACT NOW. RT Now THIS is a wakeup call! http://t.co/PQDkq23ixn @HuffPostGreen
— SquAIR Spaces (@SquAIRspaces) August 9, 2013
DO ALL OF YOU NOT CARE THAT THE NORTH POLE IS MELTING?
— Alyssa Panesa (@alyssapanesa_) August 7, 2013
This is crazy: We can soon go kitesurfing on the #NorthPole – thanks to #ClimateChange it’s now a lake up there! http://t.co/uUugXxXGoK
— Renat Heuberger (@RenatHeuberger) August 5, 2013
The Atlantic Wire published an article about the photo, noting a “trend of continually rising temperatures across the globe.” They later updated their piece with a correction.
Recently the AP also had to issue a correction after they attempted to rewrite Obama’s quote when he mistakenly said that Charleston, S.C.; Savannah, Ga. and Jacksonville, Fla., were on the Gulf Coast.
