The BBC might like to consider that none of these villages were there three hundred years ago because the glaciers were there instead.
Tag: Glacier
New emotification of global warming: selling the sizzle of melting glaciers
From the American Institute of Physics, some research they lament doesn’t carry “the same emotional wallop as images” related to “climate trends”. Oh, darn. Maybe they need to link up…
Unprecedented Glacial Chutzpah – just in time for IPCC AR5
From the European Geosciences Union comes some unprecedented chutzpah with this statement from one of the authors at the end of the press release: “This study has been conducted with…
Glaciergate post script – they'll shrink anyway
From Brigham Young University and the “IPCC, take your 2035 and shove it” department comes this study: Himalayan glaciers will shrink even if temperatures hold steady Come rain or shine,…
Historical Imagery of Greenland Glaciers Lessens Sea Level Rise Alarm
By Pat Michaels via World Climate Report A new study using historical images of glaciers in southeast Greenland to investigate glacier response to climate changes suggests that the recently observed…
Glaciers can speed up, but can't put out
From the National Science Foundation: Press Release 12-088 Analysis of Speed of Greenland Glaciers Gives New Insight for Rising Sea Level Researchers determine that although glaciers continue to increase in…
Ice capades – Some Himalayan Glaciers Growing, study suggests a negative sea level rise adjustment
I wonder if Rajenda Pachauri will call this “voodoo science“? A previous study by the UC Santa Barbara found that the Karakoram glaciers are mostly stagnating, possibly due to debris, the…
Greenland's pronounced glacier retreat not irreversible
Via the AGU weekly highlights: In recent decades, the combined forces of climate warming and short-term variability have forced the massive glaciers that blanket Greenland into retreat, with some scientists…
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