Climate experts claim that melting glaciers are proof of global warming, because they lack the science skills most people pick up in kindergarten.
Glaciers melt during interglacial periods (i.e. last 20,000 years) because more ice melts every year than accumulates. When this reverses, we are in an ice age.
According to Hansen, the years around 1910 were the coldest on record, yet Swiss glaciers were rapidly melting.
Your graph in Stalker Update post from earlier today ( http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/03/22/stalker-update/ ) has the GISS 5 year running mean where 1885 and 1895 (approx) are colder than 1908. The graph above shows a different 5 year running mean.
Why?
John M Reynolds
That graph was land only temperatures. This one is land-ocean temperatures. I doubt that either one bears any resemblance to reality.
It’s a shift to more positive North Atlantic Oscillation conditions from 1903 for around a decade.
Here are a few more reports about glaciers in the Alps.