Geographical, the members magazine of the Royal Geographical Society has a climate change supplement ("Climate Change. Here...Now...") out with its current issue.
You know things are bad when you can find things to object to on the contents page, but this is the measure of just how awful it is. There above the contents we see the image that appeared on the cover of Nature when it published Eric Steig's paper that purported to have found warming in West Antartica - a result that a subsequent paper showed to be a function of erroneous methodology rather than the underlying data. It's as if the "compelling image" was simply too good to miss.
The same image appears later, but larger, later on, heading up an article about the Antarctic by a freelance journalist called Mark Rowe. This opens as follows:
The science is emphatic - parts of Antarctica are among the most rapidly warming regions on Earth.
And tells us that
...a recently compiled temperature record for Byrd Station in West Antarctica revealed a linear increase in annual temperature between 1958 and 2010 that amounted to a total rise of about 2.4°C.
This is a fascinating claim, but particularly when put in the context of this old Climate Audit post by Ryan O'Donnell, the mathematician who headed the team that wrote the response to Steig. This reveals that Byrd Station is actually two separate records that may or may not get spliced together. Either way, O'Donnell was discussing trends that are considerably smaller than those mentioned in Geographical. I wonder what jiggery-pokery has been going on with the data since then?
It's a similar story when, in a separate article, Rowe discusses changes in the Arctic. We are told that "scientists are all but certain" the changes in ice extents are "attributable to to anthropogenic climate change" (What? Including the 2007 changes in currents and the 2012 storm?).
There's so much to enjoy here - articles on sea level rise, ocean heat content, spring arriving earlier, droughts, and even an offering from Stephan Lewandowsky, the whole thing interspersed with advert after advert for long-haul holidays.