Oh great! Global warming is causing lower temperatures at higher elevations, thus increasing the size of the glaciers! Major seaports will be landlocked, and the world supply of fresh water will decrease! This will lead to population dislocations and major wars over water! We're all going to die of thirst!

All it says is that some of the Himalayan glaciers are better insulated and are not melting. The ones that aren't insulated are melting just like they are all over the world.

It doesn't do us any favors to spread misrepresentations.

Also in the Telegraph:

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"For a start, the study that made the discovery concluded – as lead researcher Dirk Scherler put it that - "overall in the Himalayas, the glaciers are retreating". What made the difference in the Karakoram was that many are covered in a layer of rubble that has eroded from the peaks, insulating the ice from the warmth of the sun. Where this layer was present the glaciers did not melt or even grew; where it was not the rate of retreat remained high.

Elsewhere in the world the retreat continues. Just last weekend, for example, it was announced that Greeenland's icesheet melted at a record rate in 2010 and studies show that most of the world's glaciers are shrinking."

Thanks for the note, but you should know by now that any climate debate with the greenies is 'heads I win, tails you lose'. Fortunately that argument doesn't have quite the same traction, thus the fading interest in the public.

I don't know, I could easily see Pachauri releasing a statement including both the words "I" & "resign" -- or even the phrase "I resign" itself:

I resign myself to the fact that horrid climate holocaust deniers like Andrew Stuttaford continue to ignore the plain truth of drastic climate change & the growing catastrophes it is causing the world over. Unless we immediately put dramatic limitations on the freedoms & indulgences of the lesser people of the world, we face certain doom as a species.

Draconian world government expressly empowered to subjugate the vast majority of the world's population -- particularly those of the so-called 'developed world' -- and force a return to the sensible, sustainable living standards humanity enjoyed throughout the alleged 'dark ages' is no longer just a worthwhile goal, it is now a moral imperative.

I therefore join with all right-thinking people in demanding an immediate end to industrial civilization & all of its destructive effects for anyone & everyone who is not a part of the global elite. That elite, of course, will regrettably have to continue to utilize the horrors of private jets, air conditioning, massive electricity usage & other crimes against the planet in their necessary role as stewards of Mother Gaia & repressors of the human infestation that threatens to destroy her.

"Elsewhere in the world the retreat continues. Just last weekend, for example, it was announced that Greeenland's icesheet melted at a record rate in 2010 and studies show that most of the world's glaciers are shrinking.""

So what? Tropical high level glaciers are dependent upon precipitation and wind patterns, not temperature. The surface temps are well below freezing at 15,000 feet -even in the tropics. Large circulation patterns such as the Walker Cell and ENSO, or for Greenland the NAO have more to do with the ebb and flow of glaciers than does CO2 concentrations. And not one scientist can positively tie Greenhouse Gases to the workings of any of these circulation patterns.

The glaciers have been in retreat since the coldest decades of the Little Ice Age (1620s-1700). Global temps have been increasing for over 300 years. Geologists found several Roman artifacts in the morraine of melted glaciers in Switzerland. Those artifacts date back to Christ's time. Archeologists in many recently open passes in France and Switzerland found artifacts from Catholic Pilgrims. Those date to over 1000 years ago. This evidence points to the fact that these glaciers grow and wane 2-3 times over a period of 2000 years.

We also know from historical evidence that it takes less 200 years for glaciers to grow significantly (see the both the Franz Josef Glacier and various Austrian, Swiis, and French glaciers). Villages and pasture lands in Switzerland were destroyed in large numbers in the Alpine regions from the 14th through the 18th Century. And incidently, the majority of glaciers that disappeard in Glacier National Park were less than 400 years old.

"Does this report “disprove” anthropogenic climate change? No."

Not alone, maybe, but how many reports like this, in which the alarmists predictions turn out to not only be wrong but a full 180 degrees off of what actually happens (record snowfalls in places they predicted would never see snow again; seal levels falling; glaciers growing) will it take before the cumulative weight of wrongness finally gets people to admit that they don't know what they're talking about.

"All it says is that some of the Himalayan glaciers are better insulated and are not melting"

ROTFLMAO!!!!!

I hate to break this to you but the theory of anthropogenic global warming doesn't include an explanation for "insulation" from its effects.

This is one of the big things that makes the theory look like mere wishful thinking; when people make stuff up to explain why observed evidence never seems to match the previously declared absolutely certain effects.

But thanks for the laugh!