Antiseptic, You're beautiful, I love it !

I wonder whether BOAZ will take your advice ?

Forget about it!

There's nothing you can do, and there is no proof that any of the shock/horror stories coming from an hysterical media will ever happen.

Some people just have to have something to worry about.
Posted by Mr. Right, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 9:49:18 AM

Nice refreshing perspective Mr Right.

And I agree

The hysteria being generated by news-room focused climatologists using dubious pseudo-science to scare more government funding their way is despicable to the point when a reasoned view is expressed it gets overshadowed by the show-pony antics of the zealots.

One wonders how these glaciers and ice systems will fare with the new big freeze now being promoted for the poles?

Anyway it is pure hubris to presume the melting is anything to do with human activity, if it were maybe more climatologists would be demanding something to curtail human population growth, pareticularly in countries like India.

Instead they are hell bent on simply controlling and curtailing human lifestyle (through carbon taxes) - Socialism by Stealth.

Col Rouge, I quote your post.......

"The hysteria being generated by news-room focused climatologists using dubious pseudo-science to scare more government funding their way is despicable to the point when a reasoned view is expressed it gets overshadowed by the show-pony antics of the zealots."

I wonder how you arrive at that opinion, certainly not scientifically based I'm sure. Unlike the 3000 odd international government climate scientist who have arrived at a consensus over the problem. A problem which threatens us like nothing else unless we grapple with it.

Scare mongering ? I don't think so, and given time I don't think you will either. It is interesting to see the number of so called "informed" scientific voices have become quite mute now.

University of Kuopio,
The Response of the Himalayan Glaciers’ to Global Warming and Influence on Water Quality in the Rivers Originated from Himalayan Glaciers.
Melting of glaciers provides most reasonable indication of global warming. In recent decades, glaciers have begun melting at rates that cannot be explained by historical trends. The Himalaya is the youngest and fragile mountain system in the world. 17% of its area is covered by glaciers, which act as a huge freshwater reservoir with capacity of 8.6 X 106 m3 of water per year. They are the main sources of seven large rivers; Ganga, Indus, Brahmaputra, Salween; Mekong; Yantze and Hung Ho and enable the life of almost one billion people living downstream in the Indogangetic plains. Acceleration on receding of glaciers is placing one third of the world’s population at risks from flood, droughts and lack of drinking water. There is linear trend of the warming for annual mean temperature over this region by 0.26 ºC /10a.

I love knee-jerk reactions. They make their perpetrators SO vulnerable to my wit and unequivocally far superior knowledge. Did I write that the measured increase in melting from these glaciers was caused by anthropogenic global warming?

NO.

Read the post before you reach for your holster.

Rates of glacier melting can be measured easily and scientifically and compared with past equally valid measurements. Is it hysteria to report in the evening news the results of such measurements?

NO

If this situation is something to do with the claimed anthropogenic CO2 production, then it might spur a major atmospheric polluter, India, to do something about it and clean up the air. I don't buy into the western guilt trip over claimed anthropogenic CO2. It was simply our bad luck to have developed the industrial revolution first, and anyway, 40% of the Indian smoke haze now evident as far away across the Indian Ocean as the Seychelles comes from the hundreds of millions of home fires Indians use for cooking. They could use smoke-free (and CO2-free) solar heaters for the same job, if the Indian government could be bothered to supply them. India is not poor, although a lot of people live in poverty.

But we are going to see major hydrological problems in India in the next 10-20 years and it will affect us, one way or the other. Yes, I know Australia is too dry for 1 billion eco-migrants.

“Scare mongering ? I don't think so, and given time I don't think you will either. It is interesting to see the number of so called "informed" scientific voices have become quite mute now.
Posted by snake, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 1:29:56 PM”

Yeah. It’s because the media doesn’t want to hear their side, and they have probably given up trying. If people don’t want to listen, there is not much point in trying to get the message out.

Only 3,000 odd scientists have come up with the shock horror stories? That’s not many out of the world’s population of scientists! It’s a figure I’ve not heard before; I thought it would be a lot more, given the panic-stricken masses who believe the stories they tell