3 Papers: Alarmist Glacier Claims are Overblown

Three peer-reviewed studies published within the past 2 weeks alone have indicated alarmist claims of anthropogenic, unprecedented, rapid glacier melt are overblown:



1. Climate Change Will Affect the Asian Water Towers

• IPCC claim of Himalayan glacier melt by 2035:


• "overstated by several hundred years"


• "oversimplified"


• "impact less than anticipated"


• IPCC false claims were "a first-rate disaster"


• "some scientists saw the error and tried to alert senior authors, but it was "too late" to get the report corrected"

2. 100-year mass changes in the Swiss Alps linked to the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation

• "half of the glacier loss in the Swiss Alps is due to natural climate variability— a result likely to be true for glaciers around the world."


• "current glacier retreat might be equally due to natural climate variations as it is to anthropogenic greenhouse warming."


• "Glacier mass loss was particularly rapid in the 1940s and since the 1980s. "

3. Is the recessional pattern of Himalayan glaciers suggestive of anthropogenically induced global warming?

• "the rate of recession of most of the glaciers in general is on decline"


• "These observations are in contradiction to the widely popularized concept of anthropogenically induced global warming."


• "It is believed that the rise of temperature of around 0.6°C since mid-nineteenth century is a part of decadal to centennial-scale climatic fluctuations that have been taking place on this Earth for the past few thousands of years."

h/t Tom Nelson

UPDATE: Global warming's impact on Asia's Rivers Overblown