On Jan 28, 4:01*pm, "andyomp" wrote:
Himalayan glaciers not melting because of climate change, report finds
Himalayan glaciers are actually advancing rather than retreating, claims
the first major study since a controversial UN report said they would be
melted within quarter of a century.

By Dean Nelson, New Delhi and Richard Alleyne 6:00AM GMT 27 Jan 2011
Researchers have discovered that contrary to popular belief half of the
ice flows in the Karakoram range of the mountains are actually growing
rather than shrinking.

The discovery adds a new twist to the row over whether global warming is
causing the world's highest mountain range to lose its ice cover.

It further challenges claims made in a 2007 report by the UN's
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that the glaciers would be
gone by 2035.

Although the head of the panel Dr Rajendra Pachauri later admitted the
claim was an error gleaned from unchecked research, he maintained that
global warming was melting the glaciers at "a rapid rate", threatening
floods throughout north India.

The new study by scientists at the Universities of California and
Potsdam has found that half of the glaciers in the Karakoram range, in
the northwestern Himlaya, are in fact advancing and that global warming
is not the deciding factor in whether a glacier survives or melts.

Most of those glaciers are so high on the mountains that the
temperature never gets high enough to melt ice.
It's a 'we're all going to die' scare tactic from the global warming
cult......