Global Warming Myths - Ice Receding

More blows to the IPCC report and the Global Warming crowd about ice receding from both the Himalayas and the Antarctic. In the Antarctic, while it is true that parts of the ice-shelf are breaking off and shortening. In other areas they are growing and in height and breadth. I n fact, there is a list of growing ice glaciers and sheets which I are accessible here:

Glacier Site

The Hindustan Times also has a story reporting on the 9,575 glaciers in India, which have had only about 50 of them actually studied.

Hindustan Times Article

My son wrote in a sixth-grade speech once that had an interesting retraction by the New York Times:

Another myth that has resulted from the global warming scare is that of the polar ice caps melting. On august 19, 2000, the front page of the New York Times featured a picture of the North Pole; the accompanying news story said:

“The North Pole is melting. The thick ice that that has for ages covered the Artic Ocean at the pole has turned to water… something that has presumably never before seen by humans, and is more evidence that global warming may be real and already affecting the climate.”

Oops!! Ten days later the Times apologized, saying it, “misstated the normal conditions of the sea ice there. A clear spot has probably opened at the pole before, scientists say, because about 10 percent of the Arctic Ocean is clear of ice in a typical summer.” But by then the Washington Post, USA Today, Associated Press, National Public Radio, American TV networks (ABC, NBC, CBS), Canadian TV and papers in London had repeated the story. NBC Nightly News talked about “a mile-wide stretch of water where ice should be.” CNN said the ice cap “is losing its ice.”

In contradistinction to Gore’s crazy rants, 90% of the ice in the world have grown in the recent past:

19 May 2005 - According to a new study published in the online edition of Science, the East Antarctic Ice Sheet gained about 45 billion tons of ice between 1992 and 2003. The ice sheets are several kilometers thick in places, and contain about 90% of the world's ice.

Using data from the European Space Agency's radar satellites ERS-1 and ERS-2, a research team from the University of Missouri, Columbia, measured changes in altitude over about 70% of Antarctica's interior. East Antarctica thickened at an average rate of about 1.8 centimeters per year over the time period studied, the researchers discovered.

The region comprises about 75% of Antarctica 's total land area and about 85% of the total ice volume. The area in question covers more than 2.75 million square miles - roughly the same size as the United States.

(This means that more than 90 percent of the world's glaciers are growing thicker … while the media keeps yelling about the ones that are melting.)

Antarctic Cap Growing

I can side with some of the most recent works that Global Warming is primarily due to our suns cycle, one reason is that Mars is experiencing a warming spell, and last time I checked there aren’t any “big bad corporations” there making SUVs.