Melting glacier 'false alarm' By Julian Isherwood, Scandinavia Correspondent (Filed: 17/08/2002) Pictures released by Greenpeace claiming to show how man-made global warming has caused Arctic glaciers to retreat are at best misleading and only illustrate a natural phenomenon, says a leading glaciologist. A greenpeace activist compares the photo above with the Norwegian glacier at present The picture series, which compared the size of a glacier on Svalbard in 1918 with its size in 2002, was published across the world alongside a Greenpeace warning that global warming caused by man-made greenhouse gases was causing Arctic glaciers to melt."The blame can...