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Glaciers, Ice-Cores, Arctic and Antarctic
“Temperature measurements in the arctic suggest that it was just as warm there in the 1930's...before most greenhouse gas emissions. Don't you ever wonder whether sea ice concentrations back then were low, too?” Roy Spencer As was detailed in the “Past Climates” section of this document and the corresponding sub-sections “The last 2,000 years” and “The last 12,000 years, brief overview of the Holocene”, glaciers offer a fast response to any climate change. Trutat's (1876) striking observations, made long before man-made emissions, were reported several times and they were not isolated (Nussbaumer et al., 2011; Fig. 4 and 5), this is why glaciers have often been an easy prey to the scare mongering tactics of climate fabricators, as they have been generally receding since the end of the LIA (Akasofu, 2011). In fact, one can regularly see such reports in mass media come to the cover or front-page of newspapers or magazines to create sort of a Pavlovian response of the conditioned masses, where the gullible and easy to influence people, because they lack the time, will or the wherewithals to reach an informed opinion, get an imprint in their mind that there is no arguing, worse no denying (with an implicit creepy hidden allusion to the holocaust), things are written, the mass is said, man-made global warming is irrefutable, glaciers will disappear. The inconvenient reality is that even this easy gamble, yes they melt, has often been lost by the manipulators. It was already reported how the managers of Glacier National Park, a large wilderness area in Montana's Rocky Mountains, have had to remove signs stating that «glaciers will be gone by 2020» as nature did not want to cooperate with their dire predictions. This was not the first time that glaciers had been devious and contradicted lightly formulated forecasts. The leak of the Climatic Research Unit's (CRU) “Climategate 209” emails from the University of East Anglia (UEA), as if not embarrassing enough, coincided with the exposure of some blatant errors in the IPCC AR4 report (IPCC, 2007a), most notably a claim that Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035, an affirmation that turned out to completely lack of any scientific basis, e.g. (Bagla, 2009), (Cogley, 2011) and led to a contorted apology of the Chair and Vice-Chairs of the IPCC, and the Co-Chairs of the IPCC Working Groups (IPCC, 2010). Senior glaciologist Vijay Kumar Raina, formerly of the Geological Survey of India, had to deny the unsubstantiated claims by IPCC by dismissing that measurements made of a handful of glaciers would be representative of the fate of India's 10,000 or so Himalayan glaciers and that they would be shrinking rapidly in response to climate change (Raina, 2009). The document, i.e. a “Discussion Paper, Ministry of Environment and Forests” is not available any longer on its original web site (electronic form of book burning?) but the Heartland Institute archives it. In it, Raina (2009) states “Glaciers in the Himalayas, over a period of the last 100 years, behave in contrasting ways... It is premature to make a statement that glaciers in the Himalayas are retreating abnormally because of the global warming. A glacier is affected by a range of physical features and a complex interplay of climatic factors. It is therefore unlikely that the snout movement of any glacier can be claimed to be a result of periodic climate variation until many centuries of observations become available. While glacier movements are primarily due to climate and snowfall, snout movements appear to be peculiar to each particular glacier” and in fact they “cooperate” so little that “one side of a glacier tongue may be advancing while the other is stagnant or even retreating” Raina (2009). Vijay Kumar Raina's is now former or ex- of all the positions he occupied and is identified as the author 210 of a controversial discussion paper and tagged by desmog as a member of climate resistance211, an honor; imagine he had the gall to state “Climate changes naturally all the time, sometimes dramatically. The hypothesis that our emissions of CO 2 have caused, or will cause, dangerous warming is not supported by the evidence”. Well, getting rid of him will not make Himalayan glacier melt faster, but many will probably have rejoiced of that nice catch. IPCC acknowledged of the mistake in a statement dated 20 th Jan 2010 where they stated “It has, however, recently come to our attention that a paragraph in the 938-page Working Group II contribution to the underlying assessment refers to poorly substantiated estimates of rate of recession and date for the disappearance of Himalayan glaciers” (IPCC, 2010). it's so awkward on the part of the IPCC to make use of an unsubstantiated WWF interview when then keep claiming that they only resort to peer-reviewed literature, which is no wonder as they control throughout their vast network of lead authors and affiliated scientists all the gates of official publications in their related domain, which is in itself a problem often stressed by dissident scientists who have been marginalized for not conforming with the dogma. 209https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Climategate 210https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay_Kumar_Raina 211https://www.desmogblog.com/vijay-kumar-raina
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