Vijay Kumar Raina of the Geological Survey of India has done some essential research on the "receding" Himalayan Glaciers due to climate changing.
His conclusion: they're not melting.
Raina's report draws on published studies and unpublished findings from half a dozen Indian groups who have analyzed remote-sensing satellite data or conducted on-site surveys at remote locations often higher than 5000 meters. While the report surveyed of a number of glaciers, two particularly iconic ones stand out. The first is the 30-kilometer-long Gangotri glacier, source of the Ganges River. Between 1934 and 2003, the glacier retreated an average of 70 feet (22 meters) a year and shed a total of 5% of its length. But in 2004 and 2005, the retreat slowed to about 12 meters a year, and since September 2007 Gangotri has been “practically at a standstill,” according to Raina's report.
he second glacier, the Siachin glacier in Kashmir, is even more stable. Claims reported in the popular press that Siachin has shrunk as much as 50% are simply wrong, says Raina, whose report notes that the glacier has “not shown any remarkable retreat in the last 50 years.” These conclusions were based in part on field measurements by ecologist Kireet Kumar of the G. B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development in Almora. Much like the hysteria about Greenland's ice cap, it seems reports of the glaciers' demise is a bit premature.
Science journal also agrees with Raina's findings.
"...several Western experts who have conducted studies in the region agree with Raina's nuanced analysis—even if it clashes with IPCC's take on the Himalayas.” The “extremely provocative” findings “are consistent with what I have learned independently,” says Jeffrey S. Kargel, a glaciologist at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Many glaciers in the Karakoram Mountains, on the border of India and Pakistan, have “stabilized or undergone an aggressive advance,” he says, citing new evidence gathered by a team led by Michael Bishop, a mountain geomorphologist at the University of Nebraska.
Global warming Climate change, and its gloom-and-doom pronunciations, is to liberals what "terrorism" is to conservatives: an imaginary bogeyman* used to instill fear in the general population. With this fear comes the acceptance of more and more government solutions (cap-and-trade anybody?) to "fix" the non-existent problem, and our liberties vanish under the stampede of this herd.
Unfortunately, con-artist hucksters like Al Gore have made millions of dollars employing the state to loot and steal in the name of the narcissistic, self-absorbed enviro-religion of "saving the planet."
*here's the American essayist and satirist H.L. Mencken on the goal of government:
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
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I was watching a show on one of the cable educational-type channels a couple of days ago. One of those channels that usually talk about "AGCC" as a scientific fact. The show mentioned in passing how fast some particular glacier was moving and growing. I caught that. I wondered how that slipped past the censors.
the largest fraud perpetrated on mankind (productive nations) in history. No close second. Knowing participants, with Al Gore in the lead, could not serve long enough prison sentences. We owe a debt of gratitude to these freedom fighters, whom Pelosi and her ilk call criminals (hackers). Dont give up the fight!
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