"Arctic ice levels reach 30-year HIGH Despite ever-rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, arctic ice is actually expanding, not melting," claims a June 1, 2022 Facebook post that links to a May 25 article from the website WND (formerly WorldNetDaily).
"Inconvenient truth for globalists: Arctic ice at 30-year high," is the headline of the article. "Data contradict connection with rising levels of CO2," it claims.
The article was reproduced on other sites and viewed thousands of times on Twitter and Reddit, according to the social media monitoring tool CrowdTangle.
The article cited the data in the context of the annual meeting in late May 2022 of the World Economic Forum (WEF). It accused the WEF of using "the 'climate crisis' and the COVID-19 pandemic as pretexts for measures to redistribute the wealth of nations." AFP has fact-checked numerous false claims about the WEF.
"The extent of Arctic ice during the warmer months long has been a metric for climate-change alarmists," the article says. "As WEF convenes its annual conference in Davos, Switzerland, the Arctic sea ice expanse so far this month is at a 30-year high, according to data...
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