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23 Nov 08 -" Recently one newspaper published large pictures to
illustrate the alarming retreat in the past 40 years of the Rongbuk
glacier below Everest. Indian meteorologists, it was reported, were
warning that, thanks to global warming, all the Himalayan glaciers could
have disappeared by 2035.
"Yet two days earlier a report by the UN
Environment Program had claimed that the cause of the melting glaciers
was not global warming but the local warming effect of a vast
"atmospheric brown cloud" hanging over that region, made up of soot
particles from Asia's dramatically increased burning of fossil fuels and
deforestation.
"Furthermore a British study published two years
ago 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".
"Meanwhile, all last week, ITV News was running a series of wearisomely
familiar scare stories on the disappearing Arctic ice and those "doomed"
polar bears - without telling its viewers that satellite images now show
ice cover above its 30-year average, or that polar bear numbers are at
record level. But then "polar bears not drowning after all - as snow
falls over large parts of Britain" doesn't really make a story."
See entire article, originally published under the title “Stubborn
glaciers fail to retreat, awkward polar bears continue to multiply “
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/11/23/do2310b.xml
Thanks to Gordon Pratt for this link
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
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See also:
Glaciers Growing in
Western Himalayas
24 May 09 – In a defiant act
of political incorrectness, some
230 glaciers in the western
Himalayas - including Mount Everest, K2 and
Nanga
Parbat - are actually growing. See
Glaciers
Growing in Western
Himalayas |
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