THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XIV, Issue # 83, April 17, 2012
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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GLACIERS ON ASIA'S LARGEST MOUNTAIN RANGE GETTING BIGGER,
AS ARE GLACIERS AROUND THE WORLD
By Robert W. Felix
DATA DEMONSTRATING THAT CLOSE TO 90 PERCENT OF THE WORLD'S GLACIERS ARE GROWING: DIRECT CONTRADICTION OF THE GLOBAL WARMING
PROPAGANDA DISSEMINATED BY THE ENVIRONMENTALIST MOVEMENT -- REFUTING PREDICTIONS OF MELTING GLACIERS, DISAPPEARING ICE, RISING SEA
LEVELS, CATASTROPHIC FLOODS, & SHRINKING LAND AREAS -- KNOCKING THE IDEOLOGICAL PROPS OUT FROM UNDER THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS & THEIR
POLITICAL AGENDA -- WELCOME TO THE NEW ICE AGE
FULL STORY:
Satellite data shows that glaciers in part of the Karakoram Range on the China-Pakistan border are putting on mass, defying (supposedly) the general trend toward
glacier shrinkage.
In an article entitled “Slight Mass Gain of Karakoram Glaciers in the Early Twenty-first Century,” researchers from the National Centre for Scientific Research and
the University of Grenoble admit to “an anomalous gain of mass” for the Karakoram glaciers.
This is in direct contradiction to the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, which claimed that ice from most of the region could disappear
by 2035.
Often considered a part of the Himalayas, the Karakoram Range, which runs through Pakistan, India and China, is technically a separate chain that includes K2, the
world's second-highest peak.
Although there were wide variations between individual glaciers, the mass of the glaciers in this 2,168-square-mile (5,615-sq-km) area increased marginally. “Our
measurements ... indicate that the contribution of Karakoram glaciers to sea-level rise was -0.01?mm?yr for the period from 1999 to 2008,” write the French
researchers.
Huh? What does that mean? “The contribution to sea-level rise was MINUS 0.01 mm per year”? Sounds like Orwellian double-speak to me.
“Why this (the increase) should be is not clear,” writes BBC News environmental correspondent Richard Black. “Though it is well known from studies in
other parts of the world that climate change can cause extra precipitation into cold regions which, if they are cold enough, gets added to the existing mass of ice.”
Uh huh. First we’re told that global warming will melt all of the world’s glaciers and sea levels will rise catastrophically. Now, we’re being told that global warming
will make the glaciers grow and contribute -- in a minus sort of way -- to sea level rise. Does that mean that sea levels will fall?
"We don't really know the reason," said lead researcher Julie Gardelle. "Right now we believe that it could be due to a very specific regional climate over Karakoram
because there have been meteorological measurements showing increased Winter precipitation; but that's just a guess at this stage."
Meanwhile, correspondent Black tries to convince us that the majority of Himalayan glaciers are growing. “Late last year,” says Black, “the Kathmandu-based
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (Icimod) released data showing that across 10 regularly studied glaciers, the rate of ice loss had doubled
since the 1980s.”
“Ten regularly studied glaciers”? Make sure you caught that, because Mr. Black then begrudgingly admits that “these 10 intensively studied glaciers” are “among
a total of more than 54,000.”
We’re spending billions upon billions of dollars to fight global warming based on 10 melting glaciers? Ten? Out of a total of more than 54,000?
What is wrong with our leaders?
As a matter of fact, the Himalayas have lost no ice in the past ten years. We're talking about the greatest chain of ice-capped peaks in the world – from the
Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan – and satellite measurements show that they have lost NO ice in the past 10 years.
Not only have they lost no ice, in a defiant act of political incorrectness, some 230 glaciers in the western Himalayas -- including Mount Everest, K2 and Nanga
Parbat -- are actually growing.
"These are the biggest mid-latitude glaciers in the world," says John Shroder of the University of Nebraska-Omaha. "And all of them are either holding still, or
advancing."
And get this. Eighty seven of those glaciers have surged forward since the 1960s.
But we don't need to look to the Himalayas for growing glaciers. Glaciers are also growing in the United States. Yes, in the United States.
Look at California. All seven glaciers on California's Mount Shasta are growing, including three-mile-long Whitney glacier, the state's largest.
Farther north in Washington State, the Nisqually Glacier on Mt. Rainier is growing. The Emmons Glacier on Mt. Rainier is growing. Glaciers on Glacier Peak in
northern Washington are growing. And Crater Glacier on Mt. Saint Helens is now larger than it was before the 1980 eruption.
Even farther north, the Juneau Icefield, which covers 1,505 square miles (3,900 sq km) and is the fifth-largest ice field in the Western Hemisphere, is also growing.
Are these growing glaciers also just “an anomalous gain of mass”? Well, let's look at a few other countries.
Perito Moreno Glacier, the largest glacier in Argentina, is growing.
Pio XI Glacier, the largest glacier in Chile, is growing.
Glaciers are growing on Mt. Logan, the tallest mountain in Canada.
Glaciers are growing on Mt. Blanc, the tallest mountain in France.
Glaciers are growing in Norway, says the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE).
And the last time I checked, all 50 glaciers in New Zealand were growing. (The Franz Josef glacier is advancing at the rate of 4 to 7 feet per day!)
But these glaciers are babies when you look at our planet's largest ice mass, namely, the Antarctic ice sheet.
Contrary to what you may have heard, this huge ice sheet is growing.
In 2007, Antarctica set a new record for most ice extent since 1979, says meteorologist Joe D'Aleo. Antarctic sea ice has also been increasing, on average,
since 1980.
Think about that.
The Antarctic Ice Sheet, which is almost twice as big as the contiguous United States, is about 90 times bigger than all of the rest of the world's glaciers
combined.
Close to 90 percent of the world's glaciers are growing, in other words, and all we hear about are the ones that are shrinking.
Welcome to the new ice age.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
The Earth's Natural History, Global Climate Changes,
& the Future of Human Life & Civilization on the Planet:
Science, Ideology, & Public Policy
Robert W. Felix, host and publisher of http://www.iceagenow.info and http://www.evolutionaryleaps.com, is author of two books, Not by Fire
but by Ice and Magnetic Reversals and Evolutionary Leaps. Felix has given more than 300 radio interviews in the U.S.A. and Canada. He argues that
the next ice age could begin in the very near future.
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