Three Glaciers Out Of 15,000 Melting – All Gone By 2035 (IP©©)

7 Responses to Three Glaciers Out Of 15,000 Melting – All Gone By 2035 (IP©©)

1. Richard Todd says:

   August 3, 2011 at 3:29 am

   Yawn, I enjoy getting people to look this stuff up for themselves. It’s the best antidote.

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   • mkelly says:

     August 3, 2011 at 1:11 pm

     This is the subject that got me kicked off LGF (Little Green Footballs). Charles did not understand lapse rate and whenever glacier melt came up I wanted to know the altitude of the glacier and/or the freeze line. Some glaciers cannot melt from rising temperatures as they are above the freeze line. They may “melt” for other reasons but temperatures above 0 C will not be one of them.

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2. Blade says:

   August 3, 2011 at 11:15 am

   Three Himalayan glaciers have been shrinking over the past 40 years due to global warming and two of them, located in humid regions and on lower altitudes in central and east Nepal, may disappear in the future, researchers in Japan said on Tuesday.

   This is a great example of bedwetting, but for the wrong reasons. India is still as we speak, slamming into Asia and the Himalayas are still growing.

   The troubles at hand might include earthquakes and landslides, but worrying about snow at the tops of the mountains? Classic idiocy.

   This begs an interesting thought … India smooshing into Asia with land piling up on top of other land must mean that the ocean is getting larger. Another sea-level negative feedback!

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   • Grumpy Grampy ;) says:

     August 3, 2011 at 11:43 am

     The Atlantic is getting larger and the Pacific is getting smaller. The India Plate is being pushed under the Asia plate by the Pacific Plate.
     Glaciers have been shrinking since the region warmed out of the LIA in the early 1800s. The LIA caused a regrowth of glaciers that had all but disappeared during the MWP. If we were as warm as the MWP many glaciers that exist today would not exist.

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3. huishi says:

   August 3, 2011 at 11:33 am

   Hey, besides all the good comments above, I was under the impression that we had been in an “interglacial” age for thousands of years and that glacial retreats had been going on for all that period. Is this not so?

   I mean, we can’t have static climate — mother earth won’t play that game — so I would rather have glaciers retreat than advance. Would not everyone agree?

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   • Grumpy Grampy ;) says:

     August 3, 2011 at 11:46 am

     Due to long term variable weather patterns the glaciers have both shrunk and grown over the last 20,000 years. There has been considerable research in the Alps concerning this.

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   • gator69 says:

     August 3, 2011 at 12:23 pm

     I lived in Germany in the seventies and spent alot of time in the Alps. At that time the glaciers were advancing and the villagers were quite concerned, remembering tales of the LIA glacier advances that destroyed homes and barns. As far as humanity in general is concerned, the less ice, the better.

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