While the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) attempts to rescue it’s reputation, after issuing it’s flawed report, the fact remains-
Himalayan Glaciers ARE Melting!
The IPCC’s report from 2007 contained claims that mountain glaciers are melting on all the world’s continents, and the cause was global warming.
However, these claims were based on two unsubstantiated articles. Firstly, a dissertation by a geography student who based his conclusions on conversations with alpine guides, and secondly, a report found in a popular climbing magazine which again was based on observations made by mountaineers.
Although glacier retreat is being observed in all mountain regions, the mountaineers were hardly qualified climate scientists. Herein lies the problem.
The IPCC is supposed to provide authoritive scientific evidence, it was therefore incumbent upon them to establish peer review, and to be secure in their claims before presenting them to a nervous world.
Inevitably, global warming sceptics have seized on the mistake to call the IPCC discredited and so should be disbanded.
I think the real damage may well be with the millions of ordinary people around the world, whom are yet to be convinced that global warming and therefore climate change, is indeed a threat. What kind of message does the IPCC send to them?
The fact remains that glaciers around the world ARE in retreat. That’s not a regional aberration, but a global phenomenon.
So what is the explanation if not global warming?
What Is Global Warming
Global warming is the warming of the Earth due to the greenhouse effect.
During daylight hours, incoming solar radiation enters the atmosphere to warm up the troposphere and Earth’s surface. During the nighttime, the absorbed long wave thermal energy is radiated out into the atmosphere where it is eventually dissipated into the stratosphere and beyond to space.
Simply put, it is the balance of incoming energy against the outgoing energy that determines whether the overall energy budget for the Earth is in the black, or in the red.
When they are equal the Earth’s temperature remains stable. However, when less energy is lost to space than is absorbed, we have global warming.
It is a group of gasses in the atmosphere known as greenhouse gasses, around which, the controversy revolves.
Their quantities are so small yet without them the Earth would be too cold to be habitable. They are chiefly…
- Water Vapour
- Ozone
- Carbon Dioxide
- Methane
- Nitrous Oxide
These gasses naturally absorb energy in the infrared wavelength during the day, then re-radiate it back to Earth. Simultaneously they absorb the outgoing thermal energy radiated into the atmosphere from the ground during the night, increasing the trapped energy.
Too great a quantity of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, means too much thermal energy is trapped in the troposphere causing heating.
Global Temperature Trend
As the graph shows, the trend has been up +0.8 degress Centigrade between 1860 and 2000.
Global warming IS occurring as evidenced by the retreat of the Rombuk glacier since 1921, and the temperature record since 1860. Is the cause sunspots, anthropogenic greenhouse gas production, or is it a natural deviation?
What I do know is, that since the onset of the industrial revolution around 1800, the quantity of greenhouse gasses pumped into the atmosphere by man must be trillions of tons! The rising global temperature coincides with the industrialization process! Also there is no other viable culprit based on today’s evidence!
It’s like the murderer who gets off, yet the police say they are not looking for anyone else in connection with the crime. It’s obvious what has caused the current global warming trend, all we have to do now is to proove beyond reasonable doubt that we did it.
So the Himalayan glaciers won’t have disappeared by 2035, but they could well do by 2135 so that’s alright then? The IPCC got it wrong, but we can’t ignore what our eyes tell us.
So let us stop concentrating on who did it, the time has arrived to focus on how we prevent it. Don’t let us be the modern day Nero! 
Sincerely,
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Greenhouse effect is the gradual warming of the air surrounding the earth as a result of heat being trapped by environmental pollution.
Greenhouse gases naturally occur in the atmosphere making greenhouse warming a natural phenomenon without which the mean global ambient temperature would be -18 deg.C rather than the +15 deg.C we have today.
The key word is gradual. In geological terms we humans occupy the last few seconds of Earth’s history. The warming the Earth’s atmosphere is now experiencing is too rapid for the Earth’s natural feedback systems to cope with. It therefore follows that temperatures will continue to rise unless humans take actions to stop it.
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