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One of the symbols of global warming is the melting of the glaciers of the sacred Himalaya mountains.
What are the facts?
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Science 13 November 2009:Vol. 326. no. 5955, pp. 924 - 925 News of the Week Climate Change: No Sign Yet of Himalayan Meltdown, Indian Report Finds Pallava Bagla Himalayan glaciers beating a rapid retreat in the face of global warming? That would seem to be the case, according to a flurry of recent reports by BBC and other mass media. But the picture is more complex—and poses scientific puzzles, according to a review of satellite and ground measurements released by India's Ministry of Environment and Forests earlier this week. The report, by senior glaciologist Vijay Kumar Raina, formerly of the Geological Survey of India, seeks to correct a widely held misimpression based on measurements of a handful of glaciers: that India's 10,000 or so Himalayan glaciers are shrinking rapidly in response to climate change. That's not so, Raina says. |
No sign yet... but who will tell if the next signs are real, or just fashionable 'inconvenient' truths?
