Posted on 01/20/2010 5:30:54 PM PST by Kaslin
A U.N. warning that Himalayan glaciers were melting fast and may be gone by 2035 was not
backed up by science, U.N. climate experts admitted Wednesday
Global Warming: The scientists who said that Himalayan glaciers will be gone by 2035 have admitted the claim has as much credibility as sightings of the mythical Yeti. It's their fraudulent claims that are melting away.
We hesitate to call it Glacier-gate, but the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the U.N. body tasked with scaring us to death about global warming, has admitted that the claim in its 2007 report about the Himalayan glaciers disappearing was not based on any scientific study or research. It was instead based on one scientist's speculation in a telephone interview with a reporter.
The IPCC claimed: "Glaciers in the Himalayas are receding faster than in any other part of the world and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of their disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the earth keeps warming at the current rate."
As it turns out, the earth hasn't been warming at all, at least not in the last decade, and reputable scientists have said it may continue to cool for decades to come. Even if it was warming, glaciologists insist, the sheer mass of Himalayan glaciers made such a prediction laughable.
Professor Julian Dowdeswell, director of the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge University, notes: "Even a small glacier, such as the Dokriani glacier, is up to 120 meters (394 feet) thick. A big one would be several hundred meters thick and tens of kilometers long."
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Don’t try to hold your ground in front of an advancing glacier.
Himalayan glaciers. A bridge too far.
I guess the cold hard facts are the glacier is well,. . .still cold and hard.
parsy, who couldn’t resist
Algore thinks the Himalayas are millions of feet high.
Disband the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Disband the UNaccountable bureaucrats.
Prosecute their POS frontman Al “No Controlling Legal Authority” “HE PLAYED ON OUR FEARS” Gore.
The damage they have caused is incalculable.
Global warming: threat to the habitat of the Abombinable snowman . . . LOL!!!!!
The oceans will rise and sharks will eat you.
I heard Ban Ki Moon and Algore were attacked by The Bumble on the Island of Misfit Moonbats.
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