Himalayan Glacier Goof-up: More fake ammo for the climate denial industry

Thank you, Karl Burkart for your tremendous efforts in keeping us informed. What is it people don't understand?!? Any person who has read your blog and commentaries on the subject of glacial meltdown would have to be a fool NOT to understand how the initial mix-up occurred and was manipulated. Your work is so clear. I am one of your many readers and fans.
Thank you, Kar.

Is it heads or tails no it's the 3rd side that goes round and round..

Thank you Karl for putting light on what is happening to our planet.
I find your blog to be a great and reliable source of information.

Keep up the good work!

So basically a lot of you that are commenting on this blog are not environmentalists and have no interest in any "green" news. So why then are you spending so much time and energy blasting it? Do you not have anything better to do? You shouldn't be allowed to debate against something you are obviously to stupid to understand- SCIENCE

"The title implies that there is some form of a “debate” actually occurring at the IPPC (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) about whether or not glaciers are melting. Such a debate does not exist and one wonders why the author (or the New Scientist editor) chose to paint the story in such a misleading light." --- Can you cite this. I'm more inclined to believe the editor of the New Scientist than a blogger. There should be clear evidence, spelled out for the reader, to back up.... More

Perhaps the reason so many reasonable people remain skeptical of the AGW hysteria is that the "scientists" promoting the scare have so-clearly cherry-picked their data to support the apocalyptic conclusions they apparently selected before they began their "research". Either that or they, more-charitably, suffer from a collective and terminal case of historical short-sightedness.

Glacial retreat has been in-progress since at least the 1850s throughout most of the northern hemisphere. .... More

Any article on global warming seems to induce mass frothing at the mouth, with opinions clearly being biased by one's prior political ideology. Great shame that, we should look at the science as objectively as we can, and hold our ideology at bay. So what does the science say anyway? Simple....

1. Industrial activity produces CO2
2. CO2 absorbs heat and thus heats up the atmosophere
3. The scale and scope of this warming is difficult to estimate with precision. Background.... More

The real issue is the toxic load we are placing on future generations. The "global warming" issue creates a debate over a specific long term impact, albeit significant if we do succeed in displacing coastal populations, while allowing polluters to continue to greedily poison children and screw up the genetic code. Sometimes I wish there was a hell for those who knowingly seek selfish gain at the expense of future generations.

The number of "skeptics/deniers/idiots" consistently posting on this site makes me wonder who's paying them to keep a watch on these sites and to quickly post their "views." What does a gig like that pay?

In his latest Conspiracy Theorist TV program Jesse expose who is really behind 'global warming' and what is all about:money! The canadian UN official who started the whole fiasco called 'global warming' and who was behind Al Gore, s now in hiding in China! I'd would recommend to all to watch this program.

I see the pollution/extraction industry spin machine got here first, with numerous ad hominem attacks on their favorite whipping boys, disingenuous red-herring remarks designed to deflect peoples attention away from what is, undeniably, a very real problem and just general ********.

Quote: "Vast stretch of glaciers in the Tibetan Plateau are dwindling so rapidly that Chinese government officials are becoming increasingly alarmed over the impact of diminishing water.... More

Is the earth's climate changing? Yes
do government's and special interests bend the truth to accomplish goals? Yes
will taxing co2 and limiting the number of children and pets I have help anything? No
do these so called greenies care more about their next grant or donation than humanity? Yes

Nothing the glaciers are doing in their decades long cycle of growing and melting is happening as fast as Al Gore's reputation. Apparently not content to refer to flawed hockey stick graphs, fudged numbers, the real temperature of the Earth's core and facts in general. Al has changed the feet in his mouth to try to bolster his flagging carbon credit industry. SOme glaciers in the Himalayas are melting, some are growing and some staying the same. Most of the melting is actually attributed.... More

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How is it "climate denial industry" when the "science" is bogus
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Those who are in denial are those clinging to global warming hoping their last shreds of "evidence" aren't bogus also.

Al Gore is the Bernie Madoff of environmentalism

What ever happened to the global cooling hysteria of the 70's and 80's.
You point out that the Himalayas are melting, yet growing at an "unknown" amount in other area's. That say's to me that your focusing on the negative but not on the positive.
I'm part of the "Dumb" population that is confused and needs to be led by hand over the cliff.
I like most of the population see this as nothing more than an attack on petroleum based energy and rally to move to other forms of.... More

The question is not whether the glaciers are melting or not, it is whether the IPCC is a scientific organization or a front for a political agenda. When you say that somehow the claim got included in the 2007 IPCC report, you should be asking how and why. The IPCC has been called the world's foremost climate authority, yet they allowed a claim by an obscure scientist to show up in their report without checking out the claim for scientific integrity. It is similar to the famed sentence in former.... More

When are we going to forget the deniers? Does the media spend time grappling with those who think the moon landing was fake, the loch ness monster is real, or that aliens built the pyramids? No of course not. Then why do we spend so much time talking about deniers instead of tactually talking about the problem?

In what way does it matter who believes what? The glaciers will do what glaciers have always done. When they diminish sufficiently to harm the downstream populations the resoponse will be that it is godf's will and that mankind was never able to have any effect on global weather. The important thing was always to keep the rich climbing higher on some wealth scale and that whatever harm occurs will be most striking in relation to those who lack the resources to frortify themselves from the.... More