{"id":3037,"date":"2010-03-08T17:17:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T17:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=3037"},"modified":"2010-03-08T17:18:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T17:18:36","slug":"global-warming-to-destroy-himalayan-glaciers-in-25-years-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=3037","title":{"rendered":"Global Warming To Destroy Himalayan Glaciers in 25 Years&#8230; Not!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Global%20Warming%20To%20Destroy%20Himalayan%20Glaciers%20in%2025%20Years...%20Not%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>I haven&#8217;t done any climate stuff in a while, and just in time, this pops up from the intertubes.  This latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/northindia\/Global-Warming-has-no-impact-on-Himalayas-claims-Wadia-Director\/Article1-515763.aspx\">scientific evaluation from the Himalayans<\/a> should put that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/environment\/article7009081.ece\">IPCC myth<\/a> to rest&#8230;. But it probably won&#8217;t:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an exclusive chat with HT, Director WIHG [Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology]  Dr AK Dubey has said that the conditions of Himalayas are controlled by the winter snowfall rather than external factors like much hyped Global Warming. He told that for a concrete result, at least 30 years of continuous research with steady outcome is needed to confirm the actual impact.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to a data for over 140 years available with a British weather observatory situated in Mukteswar (2311m) in Almora has actually revealed that temperature in that region witnessed a dip of .4 degrees,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1991, the institute is monitoring the Himalayas extensively with focusing the glacial studies and last twenty year data has never witnessed a continual retreat. Sometimes, the recession rates have gone up but on an average the rate is very much safer, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever predictions about Himalayas are being made are based on short-term studies conducted on glaciers, which have no comparison with Himalayan Glaciers, he told. &#8220;Our glaciers are giant high altitude glaciers above 4000m altitude with a permanent temperature below 20 degrees Celsius. And has no comparison with the Alps Glaciers or Alaskan Glacier which are at sea level,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. DP Dobhal, eminent glaciologist added that however there is a change in climate in terms of shrinking of winter period but still a lot is dependent upon the snowfall occurs. Currently the rate of recession is in between 16-20 meters a year for glacial retreat in Himalayas, whereas 30 percent of the glaciers are more than 10km in length, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>PS. In the body of the article, the article writer says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senior scientists at the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WITG) <strong>has rejected the Global Warming Theory<\/strong> and told that the Himalayas are quite safer zone on earth, where Global Warming has no role in controlling the conditions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To be clear, there is nothing in the rest of the article that supports this assertion. He doesn&#8217;t seem to reject the theory, but does reject the notion that AGW is having an effect on the Himalayan glaciers. The wording in the paragraph could be a quirk of bad translation if this was a translated article. It happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Global%20Warming%20To%20Destroy%20Himalayan%20Glaciers%20in%2025%20Years...%20Not%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>I haven&#8217;t done any climate stuff in a while, and just in time, this pops up from the intertubes. This latest scientific evaluation from the Himalayans should put that IPCC myth to rest&#8230;. But it probably won&#8217;t: In an exclusive chat with HT, Director WIHG [Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology] Dr AK Dubey has said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3039,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions\/3039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}