Endless
stories about glaciers melting, polar bears, ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica and sea ice form the view that there is virtually no ice left on the surface of the planet.
Not exact matches
There are many uncertainties as to when the
glaciers will be entirely gone > Jimbo's link (his 4th) on the Science news
story, which is identical to the recent tempest in a teapot
about the Himalayan
glaciers > At a time when governments are baulking at taking tough measures to combat climate change, this new blow to the credibility of the IPCC could not have come at a worse time.»
Shouldn't his accomplice, IPCC director and pseudo-Nobel Laureate Rajendra Pachauri, be held accountable for trumpeting made - up
stories about melting Himalayan
glaciers?
Another positive development was the American Geophysical Union's decision to award its Excellence in Science Journalism award to Pallava Bagla, an Indian journalist who broke and unraveled the
story about how the IPCC overestimated the melt - rate of Himalayan
glaciers.
Join us on a journey to learn why the
story of climate change isn't just
about melting
glaciers or disappearing polar bears, and not just
about a more dangerous world for far - off future generations.
In addition, having been to Glacier National Park in the 1990s and having read in the National Park Service Brochure that there weren't any
glaciers in this area during the Medieval Warming Period and then reading Alarmist
stories about how these
glaciers «will be lost forever» made me cynical
about their claims.
That would be much more informative than yet another
story about melting
glaciers.
S0, for example, while the media was unwilling to question the obvious absurdity of the Himalayan
glacier forecast in a straight up science discussion, they were able to run with it as a
story about organizational failure at the IPCC.
Join us on a journey to learn why the
story of climate change isn't just
about melting
glaciers or disappearing polar...
They even falsified evidence such as the
story about melting Himalayan
glaciers.
If you are still reading this blog, Dr Fred, you might like to know that Hasnain was still writing scare
stories in the Indian press
about this as recently as January 2006: «At present the rivers have shown 3 - 4 % surplus water due to a 10 % increase in the melting of the
glacier of the western Himalayas, and a 30 % increase in the eastern Himalayan
glaciers.