Himalaya Glaciers Melting At Unprecedented Rates
CNN Reports: “Rising temperatures could be devastating for glaciers surrounding the Himalayas. ITN’s James Mates reports.” Would you like to know more? “Hacked emails” controversy: edition.cnn.com Himalayan Ngozumpa glacier: www.st-andrews.ac.uk Professor Doug Benn: www.st-andrews.ac.uk “Glaciers melting so fast, a generation will be too late” edition.cnn.com
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AP gets glacier melt right
Oh here we go again. Another overblown story on global warming
But wait.
Whats this?
Paragraph 5: The parks glaciers have been slowly melting away since about 1850, when the centuries-long Little Ice Age ended. They once numbered as many as 150, and 37 of those glaciers eventually were named.
Hmm.
That means the glaciers at Glacier National Park were melting for 60 years before the park was founded in 1910.
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Scientists call for better way to do climate report; errors tarnish Nobel Prize-winning effort
A steady drip of unsettling errors is exposing what scientists are calling the weaker link in reports on global warming
The flaws — &the erosion they’ve caused in public confidence — have some scientists calling for drastic changes in how future UN climate reports are done. A push for reform comes on top of a growing clamor for the resignation of the chairman (Choo Choo Charlie)of the IPCC
@Thisawareness
Looks like you are unwilling to retreat from your position of irrelevance. Thats pretty fascinating, indeed.
@Thisawareness
This is irrelevant too. . .
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Climate change chief says sorry for hot air claim over melting glaciers
By David Derbyshire
Last updated at 10:21 AM on 22nd January 2010
After a global outcry, Dr Rajendra Pachauri – chairman of the IPCC – has issued an unprecedented apology.
dailymai(. )co(. )uk/news/articl e-1245161/Climate-change-chief -says-sorry-hot-air-claim-melt ing-glaciers(. )html#ixzz0dLXw1 aeR
Choo Choo Charlie apologizes, thats golden
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Sorry Marxist warm-mongers
The UN’s climate science body has admitted that a claim made in its 2007 report – that Himalayan glaciers could melt away by 2035 – was unfounded.
The admission followed a New Scientist article that revealed the source of the claim made in the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was not peer-reviewed scientific literature but a media interview with a scientist conducted in 1999
@terroil Yeah, truth is hate to those who hate the truth!
Choo Choo Pachurai!
@Thisawareness
What you are saying is obviously irrelevant. . .
Glacier scientist: I knew Data Hadnt Been Verified
The scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 last night admitted it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders.
Dr Murari Lal also said he was well aware the statement, in the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), did not rest on peer-reviewed scientific research.
Climate change chief says sorry for hot air claim over melting glaciers
By David Derbyshire
Last updated at 10:21 AM on 22nd January 2010
After a global outcry, Dr Rajendra Pachauri – chairman of the IPCC – has issued an unprecedented apology.
dailymai(. )co(. )uk/news/articl e-1245161/Climate-change-chief -says-sorry-hot-air-claim-melt ing-glaciers(. )html#ixzz0dLXw1 aeR
Doug Benn is a glaciological LEGEND anyone who’s studied a bit of glaciology would realise he knows what he’s talking about. Im tired of these self indulging “sceptics” who know jack shit about the science of climate change. I find theyre often driven by some pseudo-cynical idea that scientists are just out to “absorb money” or something equally retarded and paranoid. How would these sceptics ever be able to tell us whether to believe in climate change when they not qualified to recognise it?
Thanx for setting me straight
I dont hear there much alarmism at all. What did the scientist say at 2:55? Listen again.
We, the humans, are one of the natural factors. And currently there is no other one that would be as suited as our activities.
In 200 years hopefully we will have mastered some technology that will bring us forward and we wont rely on fossil fuels and other even much more dangerous substances like trifluoromethane which is potentially up to 15,000 times more efficient at trapping heat than carbon.
My response was aimed the alarmist view in the video.
I think the human influence is dwarfed by natural factors.
In 200 years human influence on glaciers will al but disappear.
Natural factors like what? Anthropogenic activites are a natural factor too and those seem to be the best candidate. . .
Neither did the temperature decrease and Suns minimum is about to end. Meanwhile runnerup countries are massively industrializing and the emissions are growing too. Gives one really to think.
Dont know what you exactly mean. Indeed if glaciers are gone then there wont be anything to melt. Yet if they just keep melting, they can keep melting for a couple of hundred years.
Even if melting has accelerated, that could be caused by natural factors.
World temperature has not increased in the last 10 years, so the melting will once again become stable.
And if the glacier becomes shorter, the pace of melting will even decrease.
Everything is a “normal”, natural process. Thats not the question. The question is whether the pace (of melting) was stable, whether there was a period of growing and how intense it was, etc. The core samples show us that there is more melting than growing and that the melting has been accelerating. The question is whether human activity (a natural process) is a causally related factor and to what extent.
On average the Ngozumpa seems to be losing mass. Check it out in relevant literature.
That is the normal process, glaciers melt at the bottom. In some years they melt more than in other years. The glaciers have been getting shorter for 200 years, since the end of the Little Ice Age.
Why not show the top of the glacier where it is growing ?
You are a scam, mister AgentEnigma? Well, I dont think I can help you there. . .
Scam, scam, scam