At least get it right on the Arctic

Here's the buzz: "The right-wing, conservative, climate-denial blog-and-twitosphere is abuzz with the news: Greenpeace admits live on the BBC that it lied about arctic melting."
And it really serves as on object lesson in spin and blatently dishonest and slanderous (and now libellous) misdirection on the part of those USAMerican conservatives who are running with this. Greenpeace's rebuttal (=putting the actual salient facts out there) is here: Greenpeace - Making Waves: Greenpeace admits: BBC got it wrong about arctic sea ice melting
And here's what I think is the main paint:

it's fair to say we could have been more precise. We could have inserted three letters into the offending sentence: S-E-A, to make it crystal clear to the casual reader. But the term "ice-free" to refer to an absence of ice on the ocean came straight from the NASA report we were citing, and is the common description you'll find in scientific publications as well as among journalists. If you Google "ice free summers" and "arctic" you get about 230,000 hits. Oh, and gosh, look what the first article is: a story from the BBC itself talking about the retreat of SEA ice, but what's the headline? "Arctic summers ice-free by 2013"

Of course, the other thing this highlights is actually that some GWdenialists have ceded the game: by arguing this they acknowledge that the arctic ocean is likely to be ice-free in summer even if Greenland isn't.