Melting by 2035? Hardly! New study shows most Himalayan Glaciers are stable and in a steady state

I checked the authoritative (IPCC, etc.) world glacier monitoring service – measuring for over 100 years (but stopped measuring in 2008). Their last publication on this was 2008 and there has been no further reports – the reports were annual up to then and in their present web site they clarion the call for CO2 abatement which they anticipate will be endorsed in Copenhagen meeting (2009). They have the same blurb on the plight of rapidly retreating glaciers but even it dates 2008. They are, like the rest of the Global Warming Synod, in a holding pattern, praying for resumption of the warming. In fossicking around for info, I did see that the glaciers in CONUS have turned around and are all growing. Norwegian glaciers are growing ~7feet a year, All of NZ’s glaciers are growing over the last number of years. Remember the hype of impending iceless doom? This calls for a good global report here at WUWT on the status of glaciers now that the main guys at WGMS have fallen quiet since 2008. They invite inquiries – maybe worth a few emails.
http://www.wgms.ch/

Polar doggy:
The global sea ice has increased almost a million sq. km in the past year alone. Let’s see, which is more? I’m not a mathematarian, so I can’t say exactly, dude.

The largest tidewater glacier in North America:
From Wakapedia:
“Hubbard Glacier is a glacier located in eastern Alaska and part of yukon Canada.
Map of Hubbard Glacier
Hubbard Glacier, Alaska squeezes towards Gilbert Point on May 20, 2002 The glacier is close to sealing off Russell Fjord at top from Disenchantment Bay at bottom.
The longest source for Hubbard Glacier originates 122 kilometres (76 mi) from its snout and is located at about 61°00′N 140°09′W, approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) west of Mount Walsh with an altitude around 11,000 feet (3,400 m). A shorter tributary glacier begins at the easternmost summit on the Mount Logan ridge at about 18,300 feet (5,600 m) at about 60°35′0″N 140°22′40″W.
Before it reaches the sea, Hubbard is joined by the Valerie Glacier to the west, which, through forward surges of its own ice, has contributed to the advance of the ice flow that experts believe will eventually dam the Russell Fjord from Disenchantment Bay waters.
The Hubbard Glacier ice margin has continued to advance for about a century. In May 1986, the Hubbard Glacier surged forward, blocking the outlet of Russell Fjord and creating “Russell Lake.” All that summer the new lake filled with runoff; its water level rose 25 metres (82 ft), and the decrease in salinity threatened its sea life.[1]
Around midnight on October 8 the dam began to give way. In the next 24 hours an estimated 5.3 cubic kilometres (1.3 cu mi) of water gushed through the gap, and the fjord was reconnected to the ocean at its previous level.[1] This was the second largest glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) in recorded history, and had the equivalent flow of about 35 Niagara Falls.
In spring 2002, the glacier again approached Bert Point. It pushed a terminal moraine ahead of its face and closed the opening again in July. On August 14, the terminal moraine was washed away after rains had raised the water level behind the dam it formed to 18 m (59 ft) above sea level.[2] The fjord could become dammed again, and perhaps permanently. If this happens, the fjord could overflow its southern banks and drain through the Situk River instead, threatening trout habitat and a local airport.
It takes about 400 years for ice to traverse the length of the glacier, meaning that the ice at the foot of the glacier is about 400 years old. The glacier routinely calves[3] off icebergs the size of a ten-story building. Where the glacier meets the shore, most of the ice is below the waterline, and newly calved icebergs can shoot up quite dramatically, so that ships must keep their distance from it as they ply their way up and down the coast.
…Status Advancing”…
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Also from Wakapedia:
“Taku Glacier is a tidewater glacier located in Taku Inlet in the U.S. state of Alaska, just southeast of the city of Juneau. Recognized as the deepest and thickest glacier known in the world, the Taku Glacier is measured at 4,845 feet (1,477 m) thick.[1] It is about 58 kilometres (36 mi) long, and is largely within the Tongass National Forest.
The glacier was originally named Schultze Glacier in 1883 and the Foster Glacier in 1890, but Taku, the name the local Tlingit natives had for the glacier, eventually stuck. It is nestled in the Coast Mountains and originates in the Juneau Icefield. It is the largest glacier in the icefield and one of the southernmost tidewater glaciers of the northern hemisphere.
The glacier, which converges with the Taku River at Taku Inlet, has a history of advancing until it blocks the river, creating a lake, followed by a dramatic break of the ice dam. The most recent of these advances occurred in 1750. The glacier has advanced 7.75 kilometres (4.82 mi) since 1890, and as of June 29, 2012 is 1.26 kilometres (0.78 mi) from Taku Point.[2] It is the only advancing glacier of the 20 major glaciers of the Juneau Icefield.[3] If the advance continues it will again block the river, but this appears unlikely at present. Since 1946, the glacier has been monitored by the Juneau Icefield Research Program, which has documented its rate of advance since 1988 at 17 metres (56 ft) a year. The advance is due to a positive mass balance; that is, more snow accumulates than snow and ice melt. Until 1948 the glacier had a calving front; since then the terminus has been grounded.
Due to the positive mass balance and the fact that it was no longer losing mass to icebergs, Taku Glacier has become insensitive to the warming that has impacted all other glaciers of the icefield. This has driven its advance. The recent negative mass balance 1989-2005 is not large enough yet to stop the advance, but it is the first sign that the glacier’s advance may not take it to Taku Point.
…Status Advancing”…
Haven’t heard much at all about these glaciers from the World Glacier Monitoring Service… please correct me if I’m wrong…

When i was up in the Himalaya in the late ’90s, my guide pointed out all the tributary glaciers that were receding, and all those that were advancing. So there were wide differences between glaciers, and all within a 50-mile radius.
Clearly, these differences were not due to climate, and they were hardly due to even weather, in such a small region.
Ralph