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The headline is incredibly misleading and looks like a misinterpretation by the Daily Mail (not known for their quality journalism in the first place). The "20
by tominous 10y ago
The headline is incredibly misleading and looks like a misinterpretation by the Daily Mail (not known for their quality journalism in the first place).
The "200" figure refers to the concentration of methane in the released gas compared to the atmosphere, not the total amount released in the Arctic compared to usual.
Poor article.
EDIT: This HN post originally linked to a Daily Mail article with a bad headline. The Siberian Times headline is still misleading but not quite so egregiously wrong.
- denzil_correa 10y ago> The headline is incredibly misleading and looks like a misinterpretation by the Daily Mail Daily Mail could be one of the top list of websites that can be banned from HN.
- lawless123 10y agoThey always have really good pictures though, if someone made a plugin that overlaid the article with a good one while keeping the pictures it would be great.
- denzil_correa 10y agoTabloids use more pictures per screen area over normal websites. I have no particular problems with the usage of pictures btw. A lot of times they also use screen shots from a video (for example - Youtube) and write a text commentary to generate an article.
- kaeluka 10y agoI saw the title and thought: "holy shit!". Then I saw that it's from the daily mail and knew it wouldn't be true.
- tonyedgecombe 10y agoSome times they are right, in the same way a stopped clock is right twice a day.