The latest excuse, explaining why glaciers are expanding
Oct 14, 2014
Even as the climate continues to grow warmer and melt glaciers around the world, the stable glaciers of the Himalaya’s Karakoram region, a picturesque chain of snowy peaks spanning the borders between Pakistan, India and China, has long been a mystery. Not any longer though.
These glaciers have exhibited mass stability or even expansion in the Karakoram region contrasting with the glacial mass loss across the nearby Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau, a pattern that has been termed the Karakoram anomaly. For the study, the researchers collected data on recent precipitation and temperatures from the Pakistan Meteorological Department and other sources, including satellite data.
New study show why Karakoram glaciers aren’t melting despite global warming – Firstpost
The IPCC (based on top science from Prince Philip) says that Himalayan glaciers will be gone in 21 years
Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world (see Table 10.9) and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate. Its total area will likely shrink from the present 500,000 to 100,000 km2 by the year 2035 (WWF, 2005).
Aw come on Steve, it was a typo from a house organ magazine article and all the IPCC reviewers just happened to miss it.
I see. So if our models don’t accurately reflect reality, we alter them to reflect reality, then claim that our models actually mean something and are predictive.
That’s not Real Science. We used to call that curve fitting.
Then we link the the alleged increase in the loss of glaciers in other regions to a lessening of monsoon rainfall, even though we don’t present any data of said precipitation decrease or a causal link between CO2 concentration and glacier retreat.
Before the AGW crowd started altering temperature data, the models were the weakest link in the whole anthropogenic AGW “scheme” (to borrow one of Algore’s favorite rhetorical devices). Sad to say that, unbelievebly, this is no longer the case.
The fraud perpetrated on the historical and current temperature records now actually outweighs the laughable climate models.
Sigh ….
Reminds me of the Mt. Kilimanjaro “proof” of AGW. Then some years later a group of real scientists published a paper demonstrating the precipitation issue aggravated by the AMO and large scale land use changes in Africa which all led to reduced snowfall and “melting” snow depth on the mountain.
They actually measured the melt and the annual snowfall along with temperatures which empirically demonstrated in simple math terms the cause of less snow cap over time. Then they searched out other empirical facts like the AMO that are noted causes of changes in weather (and precipitation) and connected the dots. Too bad “science” can no longer do that.
It’s not that the glaciers are growing, it’s that man-made CO2 is causing the mountains to shrink at a faster rate than the glaciers. This discrepancy in shrinkage rates is caused by the constant bombardment of radiation reflected off the well-mixed CO2 and back to earth. Mountains, being more dense than ice, are particularly susceptible. In fact, by April of the year 2030, the Himalayas will completely disappear. The glaciers will follow, and completely disappear 5 years later, on April 1st, 2035.
Brilliant! :- D
Actually the mountains are growing taller then the glaciers, just like I am growing taller then my hair!
Longwave radiation ablation… The seas will rise and the land will crumble… We’re Doomed by our own Evil CO2!
A researcher (from India I believe) debunked this whole shrinking thing several years ago. Apparently the low altitude glaciers are continuing their 8,000 year melting while the upper (colder) glaciers are actually increasing. I’ve lost the link to that study but it was rapidly buried by the establishment rent seekers (of course).