delboy wrote:
On 2 Feb, 16:51, jeff wrote:
delboy wrote:
On 2 Feb, 14:02, jeff wrote:
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Himalayan Glaciers are not Melting!

A pro climate change scientist recently claimed that all the Himalayan
glaciers would be gone by 2032, based on the 20th Century rate of
global warming. In fact these glaciers are not only holding their own,
but getting longer!

Nope:

http://blog.taragana.com/science/201...-un-body-4218/

NEW DELHI - Himalayan glaciers are retreating, and small glaciers will
probably disappear by the end of the century, the UN body in charge of
the Himalayas said Friday.

It was commenting on another UN report that had admitted it blundered by
predicting disappearance of all Himalayan glaciers by 2035.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the UN is under
fire for having included in its 2007 report — without adequate peer
review — an assertion that glaciers in the Himalayas will disappear by
2035 due to global warming. It has since retracted the statement.

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (Icimod),
however, supported the overall conclusions of the IPCC.

“We can state that the majority of glaciers in the region are in a
general condition of retreat, although with some regional differences;
that small glaciers below 5,000 metres above sea level will probably
disappear by the end of the century, whereas larger glaciers well above
this level will still exist but be smaller; and that deglaciation could
have serious impacts on the hydrological regime of the downstream river
basins,” it said in a statement.


Among many other articles...

On another note, there is increasing evidence that Sarah Palin's brain
is shrinking faster than anyone could have imagined:

http://trueslant.com/johnknefel/2010...her-haha-tear/

With the current rate of mental decline, analysts predicts she will will
be a shoe in for the 2012 GOP nomination.

Jeff

DC.