Reference :- Another of our reports on the performance of Sky News has been completed .

Reference :-    Sky Reply contributor , Gabbo , has done his assessment of  Sky News' predictions regarding the planet's climate . 

 The Sky News anchors maintain that the planet is not warming , and  adorable weather boy Rowan Dean asserts that the planet is actually cooling .   They have accused " crazy leftists " of deliberately alarming us about the climate for their own evil purposes .   But in reality , perhaps Sky News is deliberately alarming us about fictitious crazy left insurgents.  ( Also for evil purposes . )

Gabbo respects the importance of sound methodology , and he has made the following points . 

He  admits that he has been unable to interview any " crazy lefties " .  We don't seem to have any such folk out here in Kooralya  . Stanley , who has been president of the Kooralya Workers Cooperative for the past 47 years , has never laid eyes on one .  But Gabbo has emphasized that any assessment of the climate must be based on science not ideology ,  hence mere opinion is irrelevant .  

 Furthermore  , since the weather is notoriously hard to predict on a short term basis ( especially when choosing a date for the annual Kooralya School Fete )  Gabbo has looked at the overall trend for the past decade . 

 But firstly ,  Gabbo has provided a brief description of the complex methodology scientists use for measuring climate change .You are not expected to grasp this fully , but it may be of interest to technophiles . 

Temperatures are measured using devices called " thermometers " . 

 The area of polar ice is measured using satellite photographs and a device called a "ruler ".  

 The results are as follows . 

 The last decade has been the hottest since records began .  The past five years have been the hottest  within that decade . 

 The rate of ice loss  in the Antarctic has tripled in the past decade . 

 Arctic ice declined by 13% in the last decade .  Only 5% of the oldest and thickest ice now remains . 

 So it looks like Rowan Dean and his compadres are breathtakingly wrong about an imminent ice age . 

   Monte was shocked by Gabbo's  figures . 

 " Why would the Sky News deceive us about climate change ? ", Monte said . 

 " Do you think it's so the public will let the burning dumpster of vampire capitalism blaze away  until  the  elite are so rich they can buy the entire universe ? "  ,  I said .

  " Yeah , I think so . "  ,  Gabbo said . 

Your comrade , Ken