Global warming boost to glaciers
Posted on | August 25, 2006 |
Researchers studied the western Himalaya |
Global warming boost to glaciers
Global warming could be causing some glaciers to grow, a new study claims. Researchers at Newcastle University looked at temperature trends in the western Himalaya over the past century.
They found warmer winters and cooler summers, combined with more snow and rainfall, could be causing some mountain glaciers to increase in size.
The findings are significant, because temperature and rain and snow trends in the area impact on water availability for more than 50 million Pakistanis.
Researchers focussed on the Upper Indus Basin, which is the mainstay of the national economy of Pakistan and has 170,000 sq km of irrigated land - an area two-thirds the size of the UK.
Dr Hayley Fowler, senior research associate at the university’s school of civil engineering and geosciences, said: “Very little research of this kind has been carried out in this region and yet the findings from our work have implications for the water supplies of around 50 million people in Pakistan.”
Yet one more dose of reason in the midst of the world’s mass histeria about the myth of global warming. Thanks to the Drudge Report for pointing this one out!
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August 26th, 2006 @ 7:54 am
Don’tcha just love that the melting glaciers that will soon be no more are actually increasing in size? What a great find!
I was reading that the increased solar flare cycles from the sun directly correlate with the warming trends of the earth while the low solar flare cycles happen in conjunction with the times when the earth goes through cooler climate conditions. Seems reasonable to me that the sun would be to blame for our climate, what with it being the biggest, hottest thing in our solar system and all…
It’s natural for the earth to go through years of hot spells and then years of cool spells if you put all the data together, instead of taking bits and pieces and using them out of context to promote an extremist, tree-hugging, we are causing irreversible damage to the earth, kill all the humans, etc., agenda.
We’ve had the technology to track climate data for how long now compared to the age of the earth itself? These scientists don’t know squat about how the climate changes and cycles of the earth work and are just taking stabs in the dark. They can’t even accurately forcast what the local weather here is going to be like 24 hours from now, so how in the heck are they going to predict what’s going to happen 100 years, 1,000 years, or even 10,000 years from now?
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