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You Mean, Himalayan Glaciers Aren’t Melting?

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Remember all the dire warnings about how growing carbon emissions were warming the environment and causing the glaciers to melt, seas to rise and people to become mean.   Well, that turns out not to be the case, at least about the glaciers in the Himalayas:

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.

You mean the ice flows are growing rather than shrinking!?!?!   Al Gore could not be reached for comment.

Comments

  2. We got snow in December, specifically Christmas Day! Since then, we had an ice storm when rain from the Gulf ran into a Canadian arctic cold front just 2 weeks ago. This is usually things we may get in late January or February, yet even then are noteworthy. The Global Warming freaks are just beginning to melt under the pressure from Mother Nature’s wrath.

  4. The Global Warming Cult needs to go to Antarctica in the Winter only wearing their favorite bathing suits; otherwise, the cult is nothing but Communists wearing hot air.

  5. So debris on the ice soaks up more of the suns rays, traps more heat (because its darker) and causes melting to occur more quickly? And there is something in that article about trade-winds affecting the melting process (sorry I can’t bring myself to read that crap a second time). So warming and ice-melting are caused by factors other than “just” man-made pollution? But they are 90% sure that the warming over the last 50 years is man-made!

  6. Read something (can’t find it now) that the enviro-commies were focusing on melting glaciers while ignoring the growing ones just a short distance away. Of course we’ve never had melting glaciers before.

    The horror. The horror.

  7. The whole”The Glaciers will be gone in 25 years” meme was BS from the start. Last year, someone actually read the underlying report, and it said the glaciers would be gone in 2,500 years. What’s a couple of zeros, eh? Even that was BS, as it was supposing a straight-line trend, and we all know climate doesn’t behave like that.

    Finally, there is unlikely to be any basis to know whether the Himalayan glaciers are growing or shrinking. Are they getting longer and skinnier, losing mass? Or getting shorter and thicker, gaining mass, or some combination and we haven’t a clue. I vote for the “haven’t a clue” answer. The studies aren’t there, and they would be lengthy and expensive studies.

  10. I recall hearing on the news, about three years ago, a promise that the North Pole would be completely gone by the end of the Summer. Far as I can tell, it’s still there.

  13. So, as I read the comments here, this puts the last nail into the coffin of Global warming?
    Hmm except that the lead author makes not such claim, he states that lumping all of the glaciers together is not correct, we have to consider that some will behave differently and the guy who did the work says:
    More than 65% of the monsoon-influenced glaciers that we observed are retreating, but heavily debris-covered glaciers with stagnant low-gradient terminus regions typically have stable fronts
    So, your statement that the Himalayan glaciers are not melting is at best %50 right.
    Also note that the purpose of the paper is to gain a greater understanding of the water needs for the area. You know, to stop people dying.
    Might I suggest that you do not rely on The Daily telegraph but look at the source http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo1068.html