Posted on 05/06/2009 5:23:49 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
May 5, 2009 -- Perched on the soaring Karakoram mountains in the Western Himalayas, a group of some 230 glaciers are bucking the global warming trend. They're growing.
Throughout much of the Tibetan Plateau, high-altitude glaciers are dwindling in the face of rising temperatures. The situation is potentially dire for the hundreds of millions of people living in China, India and throughout southeast Asia who depend on the glaciers for their water supply.
But in the rugged western corner of the plateau, the story is different, according to a new study. Among legendary peaks of Mt. Everest like K2 and Nanga Parbat, glaciers with a penthouse view of the world are growing, and have been for almost three decades.
"These are the biggest mid-latitude glaciers in the world," John Shroder of the University of Nebraska-Omaha said. "And all of them are either holding still, or advancing."
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When Shroder and a team of researchers examined satellite imagery of the region’s glaciers dating back to 1960, they found that 87 glaciers had surged forward during that time, sliding down into lower elevations. An analysis of gravity signatures in the region also suggests the glaciers are growing in mass, and have been since at least 1980.
The team’s work will be published in a forthcoming issue of Annals of Glaciology.
Surging glaciers are common and do not necessarily mean a glacier is growing in overall size. But the fact that dozens of them have all surged in the same region hints that larger climate forces are at work.
“It looks like it’s the Westerlies,” Shroder said, referring to strong jets of wind that pour from west to east in a belt around the planet.
Global cooling.
Bah! Junk science! Doesn’t agree with our computer models!
Glaciers do not create drinking water, the hold it
“Perched on the soaring Karakoram mountains in the Western Himalayas, a group of some 230 glaciers are bucking the global warming trend. They’re growing.”
Yeah, in the face of science-settled global warming, these renegade glaciers decided to ignore the laws of physics.
How dare they not fit the template.
Bad glaciers!!! B-A-A-A-A-D Glaciers!!! The science is now settled. How dare you.
ppphhhhtt!
Stupid right-wing extremist glaciers!!!
a calm sun means a mini ice age is coming - the same thing they cried about in the 70’s
ping
It’s unanimous. 230 glaciers all agree. Global warming is a hoax.
so check out the lates sunspot pics at http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/sunspots/
....yeah...there ain’t any today....
Thanks. Spotless as the chrome dome of James Hansen !!!
Space Weather News for May 6, 2009
http://spaceweather.com
NASA’s STEREO-B spacecraft is monitoring an active region hidden behind the sun’s eastern limb. On May 5th, it produced an impressive coronal mass ejection (CME) and a burst of radio emissions signalling the passage of a shock wave through the sun’s outer atmosphere.
Activity has continued apace today, May 6th, with at least two more eruptions. The blast site is not yet visible from Earth, but the sun is turning the region toward us for a better view. Is a new-cycle sunspot in the offing? Readers with solar telescopes could see it emerge as early as May 7th or 8th.
Visit http://spaceweather.com for images, movies and updates.
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