Himalayan glaciers not melting

[30ashopper]

Researchers have discovered that contrary to popular belief half of the ice flows in the Karakoram range of the mountains are actually growing rather than shrinking.


The discovery adds a new twist to the row over whether global warming is causing the world's highest mountain range to lose its ice cover.


It further challenges claims made in a 2007 report by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that the glaciers would be gone by 2035.


Although the head of the panel Dr Rajendra Pachauri later admitted the claim was an error gleaned from unchecked research, he maintained that global warming was melting the glaciers at "a rapid rate", threatening floods throughout north India.


The new study by scientists at the Universities of California and Potsdam has found that half of the glaciers in the Karakoram range, in the northwestern Himlaya, are in fact advancing and that global warming is not the deciding factor in whether a glacier survives or melts.

Himalayan glaciers not melting because of climate change, report finds - Telegraph

whoops.

 

[Lake View Too]

Himalayan glaciers not melting because of climate change, report finds - Telegraph

whoops.

"and that global warming is not the deciding factor in whether a glacier survives or melts."

This sentence kinda wraps it up nicely, doesn't it?

 

[TNJed]

IMO, it isn't warming or cooling that is worrying but the velocity of change. Blizzards, floodings, heat waves....you name it, we got it. Weather :roll: or not that is a trailing indicator or a coming Mayan prophecy or a god sneezed, ain't we got fun?


Betelgeuse!
Betelgeuse!
Betelgeuse!

 

[30ashopper]

IMO, it isn't warming or cooling that is worrying but the velocity of change. Blizzards, floodings, heat waves....you name it, we got it. Weather :roll: or not that is a trailing indicator or a coming Mayan prophecy or a god sneezed, ain't we got fun?


Betelgeuse!
Betelgeuse!
Betelgeuse!

Or maybe it's just a side effect of the global information age we live in.

 

[AlphaCrab]

Warning: Climate change denial and birth certificate denial is on the rise in some parts.

 

[Bob]

godgunsoilwarnobrownpeople

 

[AndrewG]

Maybe, just maybe, this is how the Earth works.

 

[Andy A]

Maybe, just maybe, this is how the Earth works.

Oh, no! We can't have this. Common sense rearing its ugly head.

 

[AndrewG]

People aren't against being curteous stewards of the environment. People are against greedy, power hungry crazies who think this is their winning lottery ticket.

 

[30ashopper]

Warning: Climate change denial and birth certificate denial is on the rise in some parts.

A worthy counter balance to the global warming alarmist craze that swept the liberal left a decade ago.