The Himalayas and nearby peaks have lost no ice in past 10 years

[Old Rocks]

The Melting Himalayas: Cascading Effects of Climate Change on Water, Biodiversity, and Livelihoods

JIANCHU XU,∗†∗∗ R. EDWARD GRUMBINE,‡ ARUN SHRESTHA,§ MATS ERIKSSON,§ XUEFEI YANG,∗ YUN WANG,∗ AND ANDREAS WILKES† ∗Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography, Kunming Institute of Botany (CAS), 132 Lanhei Road, Heilongtan, Kunming 650204, China †World Agroforestry Centre, China Program, 132 Lanhei Road, Heilongtan, Kunming 650204, China ‡Prescott College, Prescott, AZ 86301, U.S.A. §International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal

Abstract: The Greater Himalayas hold the largest mass of ice outside polar regions and are the source of the 10 largest rivers in Asia. Rapid reduction in the volume of Himalayan glaciers due to climate change is occurring. The cascading effects of rising temperatures and loss of ice and snow in the region are affecting, for example, water availability (amounts, seasonality), biodiversity (endemic species, predator–prey relations), ecosystem boundary shifts (tree-line movements, high-elevation ecosystem changes), and global feedbacks (monsoonal shifts, loss of soil carbon). Climate change will also have environmental and social impacts that will likely increase uncertainty in water supplies and agricultural production for human populations across Asia. A common understanding of climate change needs to be developed through regional and local-scale research so that mitigation and adaptation strategies can be identified and implemented. The challenges brought about by climate change in the Greater Himalayas can only be addressed through increased regional collaboration in scientific research and policy making

http://academic.regis.edu/ckleier/Conservation Biology/Melting_Himalaya.pdf

Full paper available at the link.

 

[Old Rocks]

Time-variable ice loss in Asian high mountains from satellite gravimetry

Time-variable ice loss in Asian high mountains from satellite gravimetry

• Koji Matsuo, ,
• Kosuke Heki

Abstract
Substantial amount of glacial ice is considered to be melting in the Asian high mountains. Gravimetry by GRACE satellite during 2003–2009 suggests the average ice loss rate in this region of 47 ± 12 Gigaton (Gt) yr− 1, equivalent to ∼ 0.13 ± 0.04 mm yr− 1 sea level rise. This is twice as fast as the average rate over ∼ 40 years before the studied period, and agrees with the global tendency of accelerating glacial loss. Such ice loss rate varies both in time and space; mass loss in Himalaya is slightly decelerating while those in northwestern glaciers show clear acceleration. Uncertainty still remains in the groundwater decline in northern India, and proportion of almost isostatic (e.g. tectonic uplift) and non-isostatic (e.g. glacial isostatic adjustment) portions in the current uplift rate of the Tibetan Plateau. If gravity increase associated with ongoing glacial isostatic adjustment partially canceled the negative gravity trend, the corrected ice loss rate could reach 61 Gt yr− 1.

Hmmmmmmmmmmm........................

 

[Old Rocks]

Tibetan glaciers are shrinking at their summits

Tibetan glaciers are shrinking at their summits
Ice loss at high elevations threatens water supply for hundreds of millions of people.

• Jane Qiu

17 September 2013

The Tibetan glaciers are shrinking. Most of the retreat is thought to be taking place at low elevations, but research now shows that the glaciers may also be losing ice at altitudes up to 6,000 metres.

“The glaciers are virtually being decapitated from the top by a warming climate,” says Kang Shichang, a glaciologist at Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research in Beijing.

His team looks at signals left in ice by environmental incidents that changed the chemical composition of the atmosphere. “When air bubbles were trapped in glacial ice, so were chemical compounds” in the air, says Kang.

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Among those incidents are nuclear tests that were especially frequent between 1952 and 1963, releasing radioactive compounds such as tritium. “This left a distinctive signature in glaciers around the world,” says Kang.

He got a gloomy feeling when examining ice cores drilled from two Tibetan glaciers at about 6,000 metres, he explained at the 28th Himalayan Karakoram Tibet Workshop and the 6th International Symposium on Tibetan Plateau Joint Conference in Tubingen, Germany, last month.

A core from the Lanong glacier in southern Tibet shows neither the tritium peak associated with nuclear testing nor any trace of radioactive compounds from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine in 1986. This suggests that ice layers laid down on the glacier from the 1950s onwards have melted or sublimated away.

The second ice core, from the Guoqu glacier in central Tibet, has the chemical fingerprints of the nuclear tests and the Galunggung volcanic eruption in Indonesia in 1982, but not the Chernobyl signal. Moreover, the core's mercury content, which tracks well with global and regional emission trends, ends abruptly in the 1980s. “The glacier has been losing ice in the past three decades,” says Kang.

More on high Himalayan glaciers.

 

[LaDexter]

Meanwhile, 90% of Earth ice on Antarctica has added at least 80 billion tons of ice every years since Algore started lying about CO2....

so who TF cares about a few grams of ice on a mountain??

 

[bodecea]

Take a hike up Mt. Everest and stumble over the corpses of climbers who froze to death during the mild summers.

Froze to death? Nope...they die in the Death Zone from lack of O's.

 

[Old Rocks]

“Rivers of Ice”: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalaya | Aspen Ideas Festival

“RIVERS OF ICE”: VANISHING GLACIERS OF THE GREATER HIMALAYA
The Himalaya are home to the world’s most magnificent peaks and thousands of high-altitude glaciers. These important glaciers supply crucial seasonal flows to rivers across Asia, yet many are disappearing at an increasing rate. “Rivers of Ice” presents recent photographs by mountaineer and photographer David Breashears of the world’s least studied glaciers alongside archival photographs taken over the past century by the world’s greatest alpine photographers. The comparison starkly reveals the alarming loss of ice during the intervening years.

50,000 glaciers in the Himalayas, but if ten of them are growing, the fruitloops like to pretend that all are growing. The vast majority are rapidly melting. The comparisons of the pictures taken by the early mountaineers show us that.

 

[Old Rocks]

Meanwhile, 90% of Earth ice on Antarctica has added at least 80 billion tons of ice every years since Algore started lying about CO2....

so who TF cares about a few grams of ice on a mountain??

La Dumkopf, the present thread is about Himalayan glaciers, not the Antarctic.

 

[LaDexter]

It is about the false claim that "the ice is melting," which there is no evidence of a net Earth ice melt ongoing, not with 90% of Earth ice GROWING....

You are trying to claim a net Earth ice melt. That claim FAILS when one checks the FIRST DATA POINT, which is 90% of Earth ice on Antarctica. Blabber on and lie about the mountain ice. It is peanuts compared to Antarctica.

 

[Crick]

I'd like to point out that the OP's linked study finds ice growing on the peaks and high altitude glaciers compensating for the ice mass they found being LOST on lower Himalayan glaciers.

These are the highest mountains in the world. It should come as no surprise that temperatures at their peaks have not yet risen enough to cause loss at their upper elevations. Their lower elevations have warmed and are melting just like all the rest of the world's glaciers. But ask yourself this: why has precipitation increased on their peaks? The obvious answer is an increase in atmospheric water vapor content from the increased global temperatures - the very same reason we have increased precipitation in Antarctica.

The retarded ice mass loss in the Himalayas is hardly a refutation of global warming.

 

[LaDexter]

Himalayan glaciers growing despite global warming

"In the Karakoram mountain range on the border of Pakistan and China, glaciers have defied global warming to become marginally larger over a decade, researchers said."


We should call them

DENIER GLACIERS!!!!!!

 

[Old Rocks]

There are 50,000 glaciers in the Himalayas. That mountain range, were it in the US would stretch from Colorado to Florida. There are very differant climatic regimes in that distance. But in spite of that, the vast majority of the glaciers in the Himalayas are receding. Post # 66 has a link to pictures taken of the glaciers from about 1900 to present.

 

[LaDexter]

LOL!!!

Its melting its melting its melting!!!!

Despite the fact that it is NOT MELTING... nor is 90% of Earth ice on Antarctica....

 

[skookerasbil]

Whats that they say? A picture is worth 1,000 words........unless you are a global warming nutter!!


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[Old Rocks]

Tracking the Himalaya’s Melting Glaciers

RIVERS OF ICE: Panoramic view of West Rongbuk Glacier and Mount Everest, taken in 1921 (top) by Major E.O. Wheeler and in 2009 (bottom) by David Breashears. (Photo courtesy of the Royal Geographical Society) View a photo galleryby david breashears

Tracking the Himalaya’s Melting Glaciers by David Breashears: Yale Environment 360

Hmmmm...................................

 

[Old Rocks]

Himalaya Glaciers

A lot of ice gone.

 

[skookerasbil]

I have to admit...........sometimes, the progressives wear you out with bullshit.

They post up photos with different years BUT in different seasons for effect...........

They also told us the ice would be gone by now up there!! More gheyness..........

And if you look closely on the photos above, not really much difference!!! In fact, the 2009 photo above has MORE ice on its peak than in 1972. F'ing duh..........

 

[Crick]

Anderson Glacier

HIMALAYAN GLACIERS

Main Rongbuk Glacier

The Kyetrak Glacier

Menlung Glacier

Gangotri Glacier

Jannu Glacier

 

[skookerasbil]

They're Not Melting: 87% of Himalayan Glaciers Are ‘Stable’
By Barbara Hollingsworth | May 13, 2014 | 12:27 PM EDT

Often referred to as the “Third Pole,” the Himalayans contain “one of the largest concentrations of glaciers outside the polar regions,” according to the study by a group of Indian researchers that was published in the April 2014 edition of “Current Science.” (See glacier study.pdf)

“The results of the present study indicate that most of the glaciers were in a steady state compared to the results of other studies carried out for the period prior to 2001,” the study authors conclude. “This period of monitoring almost corresponds to hiatus in global warming in the last decade.”


They're Not Melting: 87% of Himalayan Glaciers Are ‘Stable’


And as we know, we are in a cooling period.........that may get MUCH worse before it gets better



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[skookerasbil]

PS....the global warming k00ks never want you to know that ALL glaciers melt somewhat in summer since forever........thus, when these deceitful AGW bozos' post up before and after photo's, one will notice it doesn't indicate the season the photo is taken............fuckking duh...............


Yes, Glaciers Melt, But Do You Know How? - GlacierHub


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[LaDexter]

And all of that melting doesn't amount to JACK SH@# compared to 80 billion tons of new ice added to Antarctica every year...