You gotta get up pretty early to fool JunkScience.com. The New York Times didn’t so this was like shooting fish in a barrel.

Here are the first few paragraphs of today’s NYTimes story of climate woe. The capelin (a type of smelt) are leaving Icelandic waters because the waters are warming.

So sad.

But then, there’s this item from from 35 years ago in Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY):





So 35 years ago, the capelin and other fish exited Icelandic waters because of colder waters… during a period of warming, the aftermath of the 1970s’ ice-age-is-coming scare.

So what have we learned?

The temperature of Icelandic water changes from time to time. The fish in Icelandic waters leave if the water is too warm or too cold. The event reported by the NYTimes is not unprecedented. As climate alarm, this story is Fake News.

Finally, note that in the NYTimes article, the reporters say that “Worldwide, research shows the oceans are simmering.”

Is this true. Are the oceans “simmering”?

Here what Google has to say on the matter:

As an average ocean surface temperature of 62.6F is not near the 195F temperature of simmering water, we must throw a second Fake News flag on the play.