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24 May 09 – In a defiant act of political
incorrectness, 230 glaciers in the western Himalayas - including Mount
Everest, K2 and
Nanga
Parbat - are actually growing.
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| View of Mt. Everest region
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"These are the biggest mid-latitude glaciers in the
world," John Shroder of the University of Nebraska-Omaha said. "And all
of them are either holding still, or advancing."
Not only are the glaciers advancing, 87 of the
glaciers have surged forward since the 1960s, says a recent article in
Discovery News.
“An analysis of gravity signatures in the region
also suggests the glaciers are growing in mass, and have been since at
least 1980,” the article continues. The increasing glacier mass has lead
to an increase in discharge for the mighty Indus River.
The article then blathers on about the woes of global warming.
See entire article:
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/05/05/himalayas-glaciers.html
Thanks to Eunice Farmilant of Plains, Montana for this link
“Love your website!” says Eunice.
See also:
World misled over melting Himalayan glaciers
Warning based on "speculation" and "no formal research"
This is a must-read.
17 Jan 2010 - "A warning that climate change will melt most of the
Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of
scientific blunders by
the United Nations body that issued it."
See World
misled over melting Himalayan glaciers
See also:
Glaciers in western Himalayas thickening and
expanding
23 Nov 08 - A study published by the American Meteorological Society
found that glaciers are only shrinking in the eastern Himalayas. Further
west, in the Hindu Kush and the Karakoram, glaciers are "thickening
and expanding".
See
Glaciers in western Himalayas thickening and expanding
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