There is no 'stereotypical' Himalayan glacier," said Bookhagen. "This is in clear contrast to the IPCC reports that lumps all Himalayan glaciers together."
Bookhagen noted that glaciers in the Karakoram region of Northwestern Himalaya are mostly stagnating. However, glaciers in the Western, Central, and Eastern Himalaya are retreating, with the highest retreat rates -- approximately 8 meters per year -- in the Western Himalayan Mountains. The authors found that half of the studied glaciers in the Karakoram region are stable or advancing, whereas about two-thirds are in retreat elsewhere throughout High Asia. This is in contrast to the prevailing notion that all glaciers in the tropics are retreating. (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110124162708.htm) SO as is noted...he is just saying that they are not all retreating, but a majority of them are in retreat (aka shrinking, melting, etc...). Which means that the region, overall is receiving less snowfall and longer warming periods...with the exception of a few places meaning that there is some localized weather differences. That isn't odd in mountainous regions. -----Original Message----- From: Sam [mailto:sammyc...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 15:43 To: cf-community Subject: Re: Paul Krugman Blames Egypt Crisis On Global Warming On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Ian Skinner <h...@ilsweb.com> wrote: > The last I heard, glaciers are still melting and all that water is > going to go somewhere. That was bad data and has been retracted. Even the left leaning Telegraph noticed this http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/8284223/Himalayan -glaciers-not-melting-because-of-climate-change-report-finds.html > What is idiotic is people who think the northern hemisphere is the > entire world. I wonder what all our Southern hemisphere neighbors > currently suffering heatwaves and very energetic storms think about > all the snow you keep harping about. So Hemp is the AC for the Antartic which is getting too much snow pack. Or something like that. You do realize it's summer there? Heat waves in the summer in South America, is that a new thing? > Don't you feel a little simpleton that global warming of a couple of > degrees is a shit ton of energy when calculated over the entire > surface of the globe, but that it is not going to equal year around 100 degree days. I feel like a little simpleton trying to point out how ridiculous you sound. Do you really think the earth has warmed a couple of degrees? > Stronger and heavier winters WHERE predicted by the proponents of > climate change years ago BEFORE they arrived. Yet you seem to feel > that those predictions coming true somehow proves the predictions wrong. They got caught lying and you still use it as proo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:334150 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
