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24 May 09 – In a defiant act of political incorrectness, 230 glaciers in the western Himalayas - including Mount Everest, K2 and Nanga Parbat - are actually growing.
"These are the biggest mid-latitude glaciers in the world," John Shroder of the University of Nebraska-Omaha said. "And all of them are either holding still, or advancing." Not only are the glaciers advancing, 87 of the glaciers have surged forward since the 1960s, says a recent article in Discovery News. “An analysis of gravity signatures in the region also suggests the glaciers are growing in mass, and have been since at least 1980,” the article continues. The increasing glacier mass has lead to an increase in discharge for the mighty Indus River.
The article then blathers on about the woes of global warming. |
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