Thread: The Truth is Revealed: Himalayan glaciers have lost no ice in the past 10 years

Himalayan glaciers have lost no ice in the past 10 years, new study reveals




The U.N. got it wrong on Himalayan glaciers -- and the proof is finally here.

The authors of the U.N.’s climate policy guide were red-faced two years ago when it was revealed that they had inaccurately forecast that the Himalayan glaciers would melt completely in 25 years, vanishing by the year 2035.

Rajendra Pachauri, head of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and director general of the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in New Dehli, India, ultimately issued a statement offering regret for what turned out to be a poorly vetted statement.

A new report published Thursday, Feb. 9, in the science journal Nature offers the first comprehensive study of the world’s glaciers and ice caps, and one of its conclusions has shocked scientists. Using GRACE, a pair of orbiting satellites racing around the planet at an altitude of 300 miles, it comes to the eye-popping conclusion that the Himalayas have barely melted at all in the past 10 years.

"The GRACE results in this region really were a surprise," said University of Colorado at Boulder physics John Wahr, who led the study.

Some previous estimates of ice loss in the high Asia mountains had predicted up to 50 billion tons of melting ice annually, said Wahr, who is also a fellow at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences. Instead, results from GRACE pin the estimated ice loss from those peaks -- including ranges like the Himalayas and the nearby Pamir and Tien Shan -- at only about 4 billion tons of ice annually.


Dear UN,

Quit telling LIES.

You are to be defunded, in short order.

Sincerely,
Sanity

The UN, EPA and a few others are in the same boat.

Lieing to get more money....Thats all this is about.

Trouble is, you can't just go by one, or a few parts of the country and make the determination that nothing is happening. You must take the whole world as a whole. I think if you do that, you'll see things differently. That's not to say what's happening is not normal, or man made, we just don't know. But things are changing on a global scale.

Originally Posted by Diesel Power

The UN, EPA and a few others are in the same boat.

Lieing to get more money....Thats all this is about.

Yup, Thats pretty much it....

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Originally Posted by Marine1

Trouble is, you can't just go by one, or a few parts of the country and make the determination that nothing is happening. You must take the whole world as a whole. I think if you do that, you'll see things differently. That's not to say what's happening is not normal, or man made, we just don't know. But things are changing on a global scale.

Irrelevant.

The authors of the U.N.’s climate policy guide were red-faced two years ago when it was revealed that they had inaccurately forecast that the Himalayan glaciers would melt completely in 25 years, vanishing by the year 2035.

Rajendra Pachauri, head of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and director general of the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in New Dehli, India, ultimately issued a statement offering regret for what turned out to be a poorly vetted statement.

Gambling in Casablanca?

Bears dumping in the woods?

Bad Warmer "science"?

I'm shocked! Shocked!!

Originally Posted by Diesel Power

The UN, EPA and a few others are in the same boat.

Lieing to get more money....Thats all this is about.

Money, and even more importantly, POWER...

Originally Posted by BestViewedWithCable

Irrelevant.

It's not irrelevant at all. You infer that we are not having any global warming just because one part of the world is not melting as some thought.

Careful reading will show that the glaciers ARE indeed melting, just not as fast as some have claimed, making the OP an outright lie.

That combined with photographic evidence of massive melting over a 90 year period coinciding with the industrialization of the planet, proves human involvement in causing this phenomenon.

Photo proof: