Climate Change 2007: Working Group II
“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”
AR4 WGII Chapter 10: Asia – 10.6.2 The Himalayan glaciers
The most recent Google Earth imagery is from 2020.
So, now that the date is closing in, who gets fired and loses their reputation when this doesn’t happen?
Didn’t we go through this with Killimajarow and temperature was not the major factor. Dry weather & deforestation wass the cause.
the brainwashing is having an effect and it’s not good. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/one-three-gen-zers-millennials-do-not-want/
Interesting that the shadows from the Sun are in the exact same place. One would have to assume the satellite computer was set up to fly over exactly the same spot to take the photo at the same exact place in the sky, at the same time of day, but 13 years apart.
Or… one might go to where my mind goes.
Your mind’s conspiracy theory is both right and wrong. If you study Google Earth for a bit… (on a real, reasonably powerful desktop, not on a phone, tablet or weak laptop) you will find there are no or minimal shadows, and almost no clouds. How do they achieve this? By shooting many images over various orbits and making composite views that eliminate clouds and shadows.
You can see shadows by engaging the sun and history features. But some shadow cannot be removed by compositing many images. Example is high enough latitude where the sun never gets to an overhead position.
So yes the imagery is manipulated, but ground features that change generally are not altered. They can and do remove certain sensitive features during the compositing by using either old imagery or cutting and pasting nearby terrain over say sensitive military installations, etc.
But it takes most considerably manual effort to blot out or change terrain features so a large percentage of the imagery is accurate, albeit with clouds, shadows removed or standardized.
It seems evident to me at least one of them has been manipulated, as it appears to have the same shadows as the other, but with one being more saturated/contrasty than the other. Objects in shadow appear bluish in the absence of sunlight. Those bluish-gray shadows do not appear eliminated at all – they’re on the right side slopes, going diagonally downward to the right, and they show up in both images.
Perhaps I am misinterpreting what I am seeing – maybe they are not shadows – and as you assert, the shadows were eliminated along with clouds. But, they look like areas in shadow to me.
Thank you for your perspective.
Yes, you are misinterpreting what is presented. Open Google Earth Pro. Go to the following:
lat 35.135666
lon 76.699933
eye 31 miles
Now click on the “show sunlight across the landscape” button in the top icons. Slide time of day back and forth and you see that in December, some areas in valleys NEVER come out of shade, due to the sun being low in the sky in Dec.
Now close that utility and open the historical image one, and jump back in time. Each image is in Dec, and the amount of snow varies dramatically year to year, and those regions of shadow in the valleys stay the same, because no direct sunlight ever gets to those valleys in Dec.
Now for reference click on the following satellite image from today:
https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulldisk.php?sat=G16
Do you see how much cloud there is in reality? Google Earth takes images over many, many days and rejects images or parts of images with cloud to generate the surface image. Shadows generally get removed as well as they try to take the image at the sun’s highest angle for that location each day. But at high latitudes, or in deep valleys, you cannot avoid some shadows, which will look the same in that month, every year because the sun don’t shine there in those latitude, or terrain conditions.