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Environment: In 2007, the U.N. said the Himalayan glaciers will be gone by 2035 due to man-made global warming. Yet four years later, some are advancing. What's retreating is the global warming narrative.
Global warming alarmists felt a tingle in their legs when the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a report claiming "Glaciers in the Himalayas are receding faster than in any other part of the world and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of their disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the earth keeps warming at the current rate."
The announcement was enough to set off celebrations by greenshirts everywhere.
Turns out, though, that the claim was nonsense. It was not based on scientific research but on one scientist's guesswork, which was lifted from a telephone interview. It was carelessly — or intentionally? — included in the report.
Despite its mistakes and clear political bias, the IPCC survives.
But its credibility is, at best, shaky — and getting shakier. New research indicates that half of the glaciers in the Himalaya's Karakoram range are advancing. Scientists from the University of California Santa Barbara and the University of Potsdam, who cited "erroneous reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change," strongly suggest that the "settled" science is not so clear.
"Our study shows that there is no uniform response of Himalayan glaciers to climate change and highlights the importance of debris cover for understanding glacier retreat, an effect that has so far been neglected in predictions of future water availability or global sea level," write researchers Bodo Bookhagen, Dirk Scherler and Manfred Strecker.
The alarmists, who refuse to give up on their goal of controlling energy and wealth distribution, say that the study does not refute the man-made global warming claims. They argue the glaciers that are advancing are protected from warming by the debris cover.
But that's a stretch that ignores this from the report: "Some glaciers that were stable in length were covered by a thick layer of rocky debris."
Note the word "some." If the report said "all" stable glaciers were shielded by debris, the global warming dead-enders might have a point.
But then they would have to ignore the fact that the researchers found "there is no uniform response of Himalayan glaciers to climate change."
Environmental activists have long used glaciers as a measure for global warming — and as a scare tactic by claiming that melting glaciers will flood coastal cities.
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Posted By: kwg1(550) on 1/29/2011 | 2:48 AM ET
Bluemettle here is your help! Go to http://www.climatedepot.com and use the variously posted articles from around the globe as a starting point. Yes it is wealth distribution on a grand country scale, as well as within the various countries. Look up Joe Bastiardi articles as a second jump off point to learning the myth of AGW being real!
Posted By: bluemettle(25) on 1/29/2011 | 1:44 AM ET
From the standpoint of logic, this argument doesn't add up. A false claim by one scientist does not count as evidence that man-made global warming is fictional; one man lying doesn't remotely suggest that all who agree with him are lying. Do the misdeeds at Enron mean that all companies lie to their shareholders? Of course not. But the real elephant in the room here: what on earth does climate change have to do with wealth redistribution? I'm the first to admit I'm a moron. Help
Posted By: Paying attention(10) on 1/28/2011 | 11:37 PM ET
"Global warming" A scam used by the left to redistribute the wealth.
Posted By: concerned(2180) on 1/28/2011 | 11:12 PM ET
Loonie has more blind faith than Mother Teresa. Problem is, it's all in the Leftist bull$#!+ of the moment.
Posted By: investorLoonie1(1400) on 1/28/2011 | 10:54 PM ET
Yeah, there is no global warming because it snowed a lot in the North east this year. Oh, and all that stuff in the Bible is true too, because. Well just because. Trust in the FBD.
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