Global Warming - Junk Science

In the search for data, I found a number of anti-Global Warming sites that apparently just invented what ever facts they wanted.

iceagenow.com - Glaciers that are Growing

This is a controversial page - there are lots of very good links and a few very questionable links. Some of the data is good, and some of it appears to be invented. For instance,

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.

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.

Well ... that's not quite correct. Most of the Antarctic ice is not actually considered to be glaciers - moving rivers of ice. Perhaps "90 percent of the world's ice is increasing" would be more accurate.

"Since 1980, there has been an advance of more than 55% of the 625 mountain
glaciers under observation by the World Glacier Monitoring group in Zurich.
(From 1926 to 1960, some 70-95% of these glaciers were in retreat.)

This reference claims that

Since 1926, 625 mountain glaciers have been under observation but Dr. R. J. Braithwaite (via tsaugust.org) claims that

Only 42 glaciers have been monitored more than 10 years This site contains a list of glaciers that are growing.

This reference totally debunks iceagenow.com as pure crap. I agree with some of that ... but there are a lot of good references. You should read both articles and decide for yourself.

Author: Robert Clemenzi

Global Warming - Junk Science

iceagenow.com - Glaciers that are Growing

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