1.3.8 Auswirkungen des Klimas Teil I
en Effects of Climate Change Part I
fr Conséquences du changement climatique, partie I

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• Die Auswirkungen eines Klimawandels geben keine Auskunft, aus welchen Grund ein Klimawandel eingetreten ist oder eintritt.
  Wenn höhere Temperaturen auftreten, ist das noch lange kein Beweis, dass das durch erhöhtes CO2 verursacht wurde, wie dies die Klima-Paniker uns weissmachen wollen.
  Es kann auch die Sonne sein, die dies verursacht (was effektiv auch zutrifft).
  Es ist ein zum Beispiel ein Unfug zu behaupten, das Schmelzen der Gletscher sei ein Beweis, dass CO2 einen Treibhauseffekt verursache.

• Klimaskeptiker Info
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Gletscherschwund vor Kohlenwasserstoff-Anstieg
en Glacier shortening before Hydrocarbon use increase
fr Font des glaciers avant l'augmentation des hydrocarbures

Figure 2: Average length of 169 glaciers from 1700 to 2000

• Die Weltwoche / Hans Rentsch
  2010-03-03 de Verzerrte Bilder

  In der Sendung «Club» des Schweizer Fernsehens am 16. Februar (s.o.) schilderte Nationalrätin Franziska Teuscher ihr Walliser Ferienerlebnis:

  Der Anblick des geschrumpften Aletschgletschers habe ihr bestätigt, dass es höchste Zeit sei, gegen den Klimawandel wirksame Massnahmen zu ergreifen.

  Neben der Politikerin sass ETH-Professor Andreas Fischlin, leitender Autor der Klimaberichte des Uno-Weltklimarats IPCC.

  Mit der Autorität des Friedensnobelpreisträgers (als der er sich im «Club» ankündigen liess) hätte Fischlin dem Fernsehpublikum erklären können, was die grüne Nationalrätin natürlich längst weiss:

  Wie andere Alpengletscher schrumpft der Aletschgletscher schon seit Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts und nicht erst seit Ende der 1970er Jahre, als die Erwärmungsphase begann, auf die sich die Treibhausgas-Hypothese stützt.

  Gegen 1850 endete die 400 Jahre lange Kleine Eiszeit, eine Periode weltweit relativ kühler Temperaturen.

  Fischlin aber liess KlimaAlarmistin Teuscher unbehelligt - ganz im Einklang mit der IPCC-Linie.

  Führende IPCC-Leute haben verschiedentlich öffentlich erklärt, man könne die Leute und die Politiker nur mit schockierenden Aussagen davon überzeugen, dass möglichst rasch gegen den Klimawandel vorzugehen sei.

• en Average length of 169 glaciers from 1700 to 2000.
  The principal source of melt energy is solar radiation. Variations in glacier mass and length are primarily due to temperature and precipitation.
  This melting trend lags the temperature increase by about 20 years, so it predates the 6-fold increase in hydrocarbon use even more than shown in the figure.
  Hydrocarbon use could not have caused this shortening trend.
  Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine / Petition Project
  en Figure 2: Average length of 169 glaciers from 1700 to 2000

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Aletsch-Gletscher im Verlaufe der letzten ca. 3'500 Jahre

• Die folgende Abbildung zeigt Vorstöße und Rückzüge des Aletsch-Gletscher im Verlaufe der letzten ca. 3.500 Jahre. (Größter Alpengletscher, in der Schweiz gelegen)
  Seine maximale Größe hatte der Gletscher um 1860 erreicht.

• Klimanews
  2008-09-11 de Gletscherschwund oder Gletscherwachstum? Eine Frage der Betrachtungsweise

• Université de Genève en Glacier and lake-level variations in west-central Europe over the last 3500 years

• Hanspeter Holzhauser de Gletscherschmelze in der Schweiz

• Martin Funk und Heinz Blatter
  de Gletscher und Klimaänderungen, Seite 30: Gletschervariationen in den letzten 6000 Jahren am Beispiel des Grossen Aletschgletschers, nach Holzhauser

• Daniel Steiner, Heinz J. Zumbühl, and Andreas Bauder
  en Two Alpine Glaciers over the Past Two Centuries

• Watts Up With That? (Antony Watts)
  2010-02-27 en Archibald on stellar to climate linkage

• Pensée unique
  2010-06 fr La fonte des glaciers alpins suisses est corrélée à l'Oscillation Multidécennale Atlantique !

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Klimawandel und die Gletscher in den österreichischen Alpen als Zeitzeugen!

• EIKE Europäisches Institut fü Klima und Energie Jena
  2010-01-07 de Klimawandel und die Gletscher in den österreichischen Alpen als Zeitzeugen!
  Vertreter der Hypothese der menschengemachten (anthropogenen) globalen Erwärmung des Erdklimas führen das Schmelzen der Gletscher gerne als Beweis für die Richtigkeit ihrer Aussagen an.
  Tatsächlich befinden sich zum Beispiel die Gletscher in den österreichischen Alpen seit Jahrzehnten auf dem Rückzug.

• Die letzte allgemeine Vorstoßperiode der Alpengletscher ging um 1855 AD zu Ende.

  Seither haben die österreichischen Gletscher mehr als die Hälfte ihrer Fläche und geschätzte 60 % ihres Volumens verloren.

  Dieser Gletscherschwund ist allerdings nicht kontinuierlich vor sich gegangen. Vielmehr wurde er von Vorstoßperioden unterbrochen.

  Zwischen 1890 und 1927 sowie zwischen 1965 und 1980 sind jeweils bis etwa 75 % der Gletscher angewachsen.

  Bemerkenswert ist die Vorstoßperiode der 1970er Jahre als Folge einer Abnahme der Sommertemperatur um etwa 1° C zwischen 1950 und 1980.
  In dieser Zeit ist der CO2-Gehalt der Luft unbeeindruckt fortgesetzt stark angestiegen.

• Gletscherschwundperioden dieser Art gab es in der Vergangenheit mehrfach und auch in deutlich stärkerem Ausmaß.

  Die Rekonstruktion der Gletscherentwicklung erlaubt die Aussage, dass in rund 65 % der letzten 10.000 Jahre die Gletscher kleiner waren und die Sommertemperaturen daher so hoch oder höher lagen als heute.

• Kann diesmal von einem besonders schnellen Rückzug der Gletscher gesprochen werden? - Nein! Die Geschwindigkeit des derzeitigen Gletscherrückgangs hält sich in den Grenzen, die auch für die weiter zurückliegende Vergangenheit rekonstruierbar ist.

• Die schmelzenden Gletscher geben Reste von Bäumen frei, die früher in Höhenlagen deutlich oberhalb der heutigen Grenze für das Baumwachstum gewachsen sind.

  Sollten heute auf Höhe der nacheiszeitlichen Wald-und Baumgrenze wieder Bäume wachsen können, müsste die Temperatur in der Vegetationsperiode längerfristig um geschätzte 0,7 bis 1° C ansteigen.

• Holzfunde von in großer Höhe gewachsenen Bäumen in den Gletschervorfeldern wurden für die Zeit von 8000 vor Christus bis 300 nach Christus in großer Zahl geborgen.

  Diese Wachstumsperioden sind allerdings mehrfach von Gletschervorstoßperioden unterbrochen worden.

  Aus Baumwachstum und Gletscherverhalten lassen sich mit zunehmender Informationsdichte die klimatischen Verhältnisse der letzten 10.000 Jahre rekonstruieren.

  Aus diesen Befunden und der daraus abgeleiteten, längerfristigen Klimaentwicklung wird klar ersichtlich, dass das derzeitige Temperaturniveau deutlich innerhalb der natürlichen, von Menschen nicht beeinflussten Schwankungsbereichs liegt.

• In der älteren Nacheiszeit gab es nach derzeitigem Kenntnisstand mehrere Perioden mit höheren Temperaturen als heute, die - nicht unterbrochen - bis zu 1.000 Jahre angehalten haben.

  In den letzten 3.500 Jahren waren die Kaltzeiten dominant.

• Welchen Zusammenhang gibt es zwischen dem Abschmelzen der Gletscher und der Entwicklung der CO2-Konzentration in der Erdatmosphäre?

  Gernot Patzelt: Der CO2-Anstieg geht erst in den letzten 30 Jahren mit dem Temperaturanstieg und dem Gletscherschwund parallel.

  Wie erwähnt, war davor 30 Jahre lang das Gegenteil der Fall.

  Ein eindeutiger Zusammenhang zwischen CO2-Anstieg und Gletscherverhalten ist nicht erkennbar.

  Der gegenwärtige Rückgang der Alpengletscher ist als Bestätigung für die Hypothese eines anthropogen verursachten Klimawandels nicht geeignet.

• Das Profil N-GRIP* (North Greenland Ice core Project) zeigt, dass in etwa 75 % der letzten 10.000 Jahre die Temperaturen so warm oder wärmer waren als das Mittel der letzten 50 Jahre.

  Und auch in Grönland liegt das Temperaturmittel der letzten Jahrzehnte deutlich innerhalb des langfristigen Schwankungsbereichs.

  Damit erscheint das Ergebnis aus den Alpen gut bestätigt.

  Die gegenwärtige Gletscher-und Klimaentwicklung zeigt keine Verhältnisse, die es in der Vergangenheit ohne menschlichen Einfluss nicht schon mehrfach und lange andauernd gegeben hat.

• Zweite Internationale Klimakonferenz in Berlin Prof. em. Gernot Patzelt, Universität Innsbruck
  Gletscher als Klimazeugen 2009-12 de Teil 1 Teil 2

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AlpenGate
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Gletscher wachsen
en Glaciers are growing
fr Des glaciers grandissent

• 1  Himalayan glaciers are growing, not shrinking
• 2  Alaska's Hubbard Glacier. Growing. A lot.
• 3  Norwegian glaciers. Growing again.
• 4  Glaciers growing on Canada's tallest mountain
• 5  North to Alaska and more growing glaciers
• 6  Glaciers are growing in California. California?
• 7  A glacier is growing on Washington's Mt. St. Helens.
• 8  Glaciers are growing in France and Switzerland, too
• 9  New Zealand's largest glaciers are growing
• 10 Russia's glaciers are growing, too
• 11 Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier is, you guessed it, growing
• 12 Iceland's Breidamerkurjokull glacier. Yup, it's growing, too.

• Ihatethemedia
  2010-01-25 en 12 more glaciers that haven't heard the news about global warming

• Not by Fire but by Ice
  en Glaciers are growing around the world, including the United States
  en Here's a (partial) list of the specific glaciers that are growing
  

• The Conservative Papers
  2010-02-15 en Glaciers Throughout the World Growing in Size

• Die Weltwoche / Von Hans Rentsch
  2010-03-03 de Verzerrte Bilder
  Schmelzende Gletscher rühren die Gemüter. Die Klima-Alarmisten bewirtschaften die Ängste und verdrängen wesentliche Fakten. Skepsis gegenüber der offiziellen Klimaforschung wird zur Bürgerpflicht.

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1. Himalayan glaciers are growing, not shrinking

Himalayan glaciers

Things are not as they seemed to be in the IPCC report. Not only are the Himalayan glaciers not shrinking, they're growing.

• Discovery News
  2009-05-05 en Himalayan Glaciers Seem to Be Growing

  In the Western Himalayas, a group of some 230 glaciers are bucking the global warming trend.

http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=himalaya+glacier+growing

de Aus der Panik-Küche en From the panic laboratory fr De la marmite des alarmistes

• 2009-11-01 en Himalayan Glaciers Melting 100's of Million People Dependent on River Ganges
  Glaciers of the Himalayan Mountains are melting faster than anywhere else.
  Parts of surrounding ecology are not growing, and the River Ganges which flows from the Himalayan snow and ice currently provides water for hundreds of millions of people.

• THE TIMES OF INDIA
  2009-11-01 en Beijing gets first snow after meteorologists seed cloudss
  BEIJING: Beijingers woke up Sunday morning to a city turned white with snow that came far ahead of the winter.
  It was only in the later part of the day that one learnt that 186 doses of silver iodide went into persuading the clouds to release snow flakes.

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2. Alaska's Hubbard Glacier. Growing. A lot.

Hubbard Glacier

Alaska's Hubbard Glacier is advancing moving toward Gilbert Point near Yakutat at an average of seven feet per day. View Hubbard Glacier.kml

• Glacier Research
  2009-05-05 en Recent Updates
  The terminus of Hubbard glacier was significantly advanced this year in comparison to the last three years of measurement and to date continues to show continued activity but slightly back from it's seasonal maximum.

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3. Norwegian glaciers. Growing again.

Norway's Svartisen Glacier

After years of decline, glaciers in Norway are again growing.

• Not by Fire but by Ice
  2008-11-27 en Glaciers in Norway Growing Again
  The actual magnitude of the growth, which appears to have begun over the last two years, has not yet been quantified.
  The flow rate of many glaciers has also declined. Glacier flow ultimately acts to reduce accumulation, as the ice moves to lower, warmer elevations.

• DailyTech
  2008-11-27 en Glaciers in Norway Growing Again

  After years of decline, glaciers in Norway are again growing, reports the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE).

  The flow rate of many glaciers has also declined. Glacier flow ultimately acts to reduce accumulation, as the ice moves to lower, warmer elevations.

  The original trend had been fairly rapid decline since the year 2000.

  Despite the recent growth, most glaciers in the nation are still smaller than they were in 1982. However, Elvehøy says that the glaciers were even smaller during the 'Medieval Warm Period' of the Viking Era, prior to around the year 1350.

  Not all Norwegian glaciers appear to be affected, most notably those in the Jotenheimen region of Southern Norway.

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4. Glaciers growing on Canada's tallest mountain

Mount Logan

Canada's tallest mountain, the Yukon's towering Mount Logan, may have experienced a growth spurt.

• canada.com
  2008-11-17 en Canada's highest peak growing, researcher finds
  Canada's highest point -- the ice-covered peak of Yukon's soaring Mount Logan -- may be due for an official re-measurement after an American researcher on a neighbourly flyby took readings that suggest this country's superlative summit has experienced a growth spurt.

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5. North to Alaska and more growing glaciers

Glacier Bay National Park

Alaska's glaciers have been in retreat for nearly 200 years. But now they're advancing again.

• MichNews.com
  2008-10-28 en Alaska's Glaciers Are Growing

  Alaska's glaciers grew this year, after shrinking for most of the last 200 years.
  The reason? Global temperatures dropped over the past 18 months.

  The global mean annual temperature has been declining recently because the solar wind thrown out by the sun has retreated to its smallest extent in at least 50 years. This temperature downturn was not predicted by the global computer models, but had been predicted by the sunspot index since 2000.

  The solar wind normally protects the earth from 90 percent of the high-energy cosmic rays that flash constantly through the universe.

  Henrik Svensmark at the Danish Space Research Institute has demonstrated that when more cosmic rays hit the earth, they create more of the low, wet clouds that deflect heat back into outer space. Thus the earth's recent cooling.

  Unusually large amounts of Alaskan snow last winter were followed by unusually chilly temperatures there this summer.

  "In general, the weather this summer was the worst I have seen in at least 20 years," says Bruce Molnia of the U.S. Geological Survey, and author of The Glaciers of Alaska.

  "It's been a long time on most glaciers where they've actually had positive mass balance (added thickness)."

  Overall, Molnia figures Alaska had lost 10-12,000 square kilometers of ice since 1800, the depths of the Little Ice Age.

  That's enough ice to cover the state of Connecticut.

  Climate alarmists claim all the glaciers might disappear soon, but they haven't looked at the long-term evidence of the 1,500-year Dansgaard-Oeschger climate cycles. During the Little Ice Age-1400 to 1850-Muir Glacier filled the whole of Glacier Bay.

  Since then, the glacier has retreated 57 miles.

  But the Little Ice Age was preceded by the Medieval Warming, the cold Dark Ages, a Roman Warming, and a whole series of moderate warmings and coolings that extend back at least 1 million years based on the evidence of the microfossils in the world's seabed sediments.

  The sunspots are now predicting a 30-year cooling of the earth. That would thicken the Alaskan glaciers somewhat, but probably wouldn't refill Glacier Bay with ice. That'll have to wait for the next icy age.

  The sunspot index has a 59 percent correlation with our temperatures (with a roughly ten-year lag). CO2 has only an "accidental" 22 percent correlation with our temperatures, which should be grounds for dismissing CO2 as a major climate player.

  All this is radically different from the 5-degree C warming predicted by the computer models.

  However, the scientific rule says: if actual observations tell you something that's the opposite of your theory, change your theory.

• DailyTech
  2008-10-16 en Alaskan Glaciers Grow for First Time in 250 years

  A bitterly cold Alaskan summer has had surprising results. For the first time in the area's recorded history, area glaciers have begun to expand, rather than shrink.

  Summer temperatures, which were some 3 degrees below average, allowed record levels of winter snow to remain much longer, leading to the increase in glacial mass.

  "In mid-June, I was surprised to see snow still at sea level in Prince William Sound", said glaciologist Bruce Molnia. "In general, the weather this summer was the worst I have seen in at least 20 years".

  "On the Juneau Icefield, there was still 20 feet of new snow on the surface [in] late July. At Bering Glacier, a landslide I am studying [did] not become snow free until early August."

  Molnia, who works for the US Geological Survey, said it's been a "long time" since area glaciers have seen a positive mass balance - an increase in the total amount of ice they contain.

  Since 1946, the USGS has maintained a research project measuring the state of Alaskan glaciers. This year saw records broken for most snow buildup. It was also the first time since any records began being that the glaciers did not shrink during the summer months.

  Those records date from the mid 1700s, when the region was first visited by Russian explorers. Molnia estimates that Alaskan glaciers have lost about 15% of their total area since that time -- an area the size of Connecticut.

  One of the largest areas of shrinkage has been at the national park of Glacier Bay. When Alexei Ilich Chirikof first arrived in 1741, the bay didn't exist at all - only a solid wall of ice. From that time until the early 1900s, the ice retreated some 50 miles, to form the bay and surrounding area.

  Accordingly to Molnia, a difference of just 3 or 4 degrees is enough to shift the mass balance of glaciers from rapid shrinkage to rapid growth. From the 1600s to the 1900s, that's just the amount of warming that was seen, as the planet exited the Little Ice Age.

  Molnia says one cold summer doesn't mean the start of a new climatic trend. At least years like this, however, might mark the beginning of another Little Ice Age.

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6. Glaciers are growing in California. California?

Mount Shasta

You might be surprised to learn that the Golden State has glaciers. And the Associated Press says they're growing

• Fox News
  2008-07-09 en Mysterious California Glaciers Keep Growing Despite Warming
  Global warming is shrinking glaciers all over the world, but the seven tongues of ice creeping down Mount Shasta's flanks are a rare exception: They are the only known glaciers in the continental U.S. that are growing.

http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=california+glacier

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7. A glacier is growing on Washington's Mt. St. Helens.

St. Helens Glacier

Mount Saint Helens has glaciers? But it's an active volcano. But, but, but...

In the winter and early spring, snow tumbles down avalanche chutes on the crater walls. Notes cave entrance in front of picture.

• Glacier Caves (Charlie Anderson Jr.)
  2000-12-15 en The beginning of a New Glacier Forming in the Crater of Mount St. Helens.
  Snow Accumulation in the Crater of Mount St. Helens.

  On Mount St. Helens, we have had a unique opportunity to study the interaction of geothermal energy with the accumulation of alpine snowpack from its inception after a major eruption.

  We began investigative work in the crater in 1981 (Anderson and others,2000).

  Yearly surveys began in 1982 with mapping, description, and photography of cave passages, snow, firn, and ice. This investigation involved reconnaissance mapping and sampling from 1981 through 2000 by members of the International Glaciospeleological Survey (IGS) with the permission of the U.S. Forest Service and Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument.

  Over the last 20 years snow, ice and rock debris have average in excess of 325 feet thick have and in places there are 450 to 600 feet deep, that have accumulated behind the lava dome.

  A new glacier is now forming in the crater of Mount St. Helens.

  A permanent body of ice has accumulated in the crater. IGS Crater Team Scientists FIND THE START OF A NEW GLACIER crater Leader Charles H. Anderson Jr. in 1999.

• KATU COM
  2008-05-14 en Against odds, glacier grows in cauldron of Mt. St. Helens

  "On May 18, 1980, the once bucolic ice-cream cone shape that defined Mount St. Helens in Washington state disappeared in monstrous blast of ash, rock, gas, and heat.

  "Inside the volcano, which was once a soft dome of snow but is now a gaping, steaming menace with an unpredictable streak, an unexpected phenomenon is taking place: a glacier is growing.

  "In these days of global warming concerns and scientists showing alarming then-and-now images of glaciers disappearing from mountainsides, it may be the only growing glacier in America - or maybe the world.

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8. Glaciers are growing in France and Switzerland, too

Mont Blanc Glacier

Another continent has reported in. According to an article in the Journal of Geophysical Research, glaciers are growing in France and Switzerland, to

Mont Blanc

Mont Blanc

• World Climate Report
  2007-06-26 en Mont Blanc Glaciers Refuse to Shrink?

• If you have an interest in global warming and its effect on mountain glaciers, you will be thrilled to know that there are over one million websites on the subject.

  Even before you get to the first site, you already know what you will find.

  Burning fossil fuels increases atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, the Earth is warming, mountain glaciers are in full retreat all over the planet, delicate ecosystems are in peril, and humans who rely on the freshwater from mountain glaciers better get creative fast.

  Recall that in the Gore film, a great deal of attention was paid to the diminishing "snows of Kilimanjaro" - Gore has made hay in Glacier National Park as well pointing to shrinking glaciers.

  Retreating mountain glaciers have become a poster-child of the global warming alarmists - no presentation on the subject is complete without one.

• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says in their recent 2007 Summary for Policymakers "Mountain glaciers and snow cover have declined on average in both hemispheres.

  Widespread decreases in glaciers and ice caps have contributed to sea level rise."

  Someone in Europe missed the memo on this subject as a recent article has appeared in the Journal of Geophysical Research entitled "Very high-elevation Mont Blanc glaciated areas not affected by the 20th century climate change."

  To say the least, we at World Climate Report were interested in what the authors had to say.

• The research was conducted by six scientists from leading agencies and departments in France and Switzerland that deal with hydrology and glaciology.

  Before you see the title of the article and immediately suspect some conspiracy funded by European coal companies, be aware that the research was funded by Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), the European Programs ALPCLIM and CARBOSOL, and by the city of Chamonix Mont-Blanc.

  Given the title of the article, we wonder if the six scientists will ever be funded again by any European agencies.

  Mont Blanc is located on the border of Switzerland and France, and the summit of Mont Blanc is clearly visible from the United Nations complex in Geneva - the home of countless meetings of the IPCC and other international agencies addressing the climate change issue.

  How ironic - based on the title of the article, we doubt the research will be prominently featured in any upcoming IPCC meeting in Geneva?

  Vincent et al. state "The most striking features of these figures are the small thickness changes observed over the 20th century.

  For both areas, thickness variations do not exceed ±15 m. The average changes are +2.6 m at Dôme du Goûter (please note that this glacier is growing) and -0.3 m (-12 inches) at Mont Blanc.

• Considering the uncertainty interval, i.e., ±5 m, it can be concluded that no significant thickness change is detectable over most of these areas.

  All these results suggest that the SMB at Dôme du Goûter and Mont Blanc did not experience any significant changes over the 20th century.

• Not by Fire but by Ice
  2007-10-15 en Mont Blanc glacier almost doubles in size in four years

  "The volume of ice on Mont Blanc's slopes over 4800 metres high was first calculated at 14,600 cubic metres in 2003.

  It dropped to 14,300 cubic metres two years later, but then almost doubled to 24,100 cubic metres in 2007.

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9. New Zealand's largest glaciers are growing

Franz Josef Glacier

Growing may not be a strong enough word. They're surging.

• Not by Fire but by Ice
  2007-01-31 en Fox, Franz Josef glaciers defy trend New Zealand's two best-known glaciers still on the march
  Guides say the Franz Josef and the Fox glaciers continued advancing down their valleys in the past year and may soon be close to positions reached 40 years ago.

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10. Russia's glaciers are growing, too

Maili Glacier

The Russians don't believe the IPCC forecasts, but they do believe their own eyes.

• Not by Fire but by Ice
  2002-09-20 en Glaciers are growing around the world, including the United States

  Russian glaciers surging - On September 20, 2002, a huge 22-million ton piece of the gigantic Maili Glacier broke loose and crashed down a steep gorge into the village of Kami killing more than 150 people and injuring hundreds more.

  The 500-foot wall of ice had been growing for six years.

  The Maili Glacier is just one of several glaciers in the North Caucasus Mountains that have been EXPANDING at an alarming rate.

  Other towns in the region have been partially buried by these advancing walls of ice.

  One local scientist in southern Russia said, "we may be seeing the beginning of a new great ice age!!!"

• Earth Observatory
  2005-04-24 en On September 20, 2002, the Kolka Glacier in the Caucasus Mountains collapsed under the slopes of Mt. Dzhimarai-khokh.

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11. Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier is, you guessed it, growing

Perito Moreno Glacier

Is there a continent where glaciers aren't growing? If so, South America isn't one of them. Consider Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier.

• Not by Fire but by Ice
  2009-06-15 en Largest glacier in Argentina advancing

  "Nourished by Andean snowmelt, the glacier constantly grows even as it spawns icebergs the size of apartment buildings into a frigid lake, maintaining a nearly perfect equilibrium since measurements began more than a century ago."

  Perito Moreno, a vast, 19-mile-long (30km) and 3-mile-wide (5 km) river of ice, is the largest glacier in Patagonia.

• msnbc.com
  2009-06-15 en Argentine glacier advances despite warming

  Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier is one of only a few ice fields worldwide that have withstood rising global temperatures.

  Nourished by Andean snowmelt, the glacier constantly grows even as it spawns icebergs the size of apartment buildings into a frigid lake, maintaining a nearly perfect equilibrium since measurements began more than a century ago.

  "We're not sure why this happens," said Andres Rivera, a glacialist with the Center for Scientific Studies in Valdivia, Chile. "But not all glaciers respond equally to climate change."

• Gilbert Ashoff
  2007-0-22 en Gore's glacial lie

  An interesting footnote and one of the major lies in the movie "An Inconvenient Truth" is that Mr. Gore and Co. show the Perito Moreno Glacier in So. Argentina as an example of the result of global warming.

  In fact my wife Marjorie and I have visited this glacier 3 times. First in 1973 and again in 2004 and 2006.

  It is growing. It is visibly larger and pushing further across Lago Argentina.

  They used this in the movie twice all the while misrepresenting its growth and in fact stating it is shrinking showing a huge chunk falling off as it does every 30 minutes or so. It is a dramatic glacier that yields tremendous photo ops to just about anyone who visits it, which I must presume is why it was used.

• Google Images Search
  2007-0-22 en perito moreno

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12. Iceland's Breidamerkurjokull glacier. Yup, it's growing, too.

The Daily Mail UK ran a story on July 31, 2009 about the horrors of global warming. It was accompanied, for some inexplicable reason, by contradictory photos that showed the remarkable growth of Iceland's Breidamerkurjokull glacier.

Their headline screamed, "How global warming is changing the face of the northern hemisphere."

The photos and caption told a story that was, you'll pardon the expression, the polar opposite of what the article described.

Breidamerkurjokull glacier in 2002	Breidamerkurjokull glacier in 2009
Breidamerkurjokull glacier Chilling reminder	Chilling reminder: An aerial view shows huge ice towers and crevasses on the glacier. "The drastic alterations have been blamed on greenhouses gases."

• Mail Online
  2009-07-31 en In pictures: How global warming is changing the face of the northern hemisphere

  Slowly but surely the Breidamerkurjokull glacier is melting away.

  This 60 mile long expanse of ice has edged from the mountains into a lagoon and over the past 30 years has shown no sign of moving back.

  Over this time professional photographer Ragnar Sigurdsson has been documenting the alarming phenomenon that has been taking place.

  In the past, the beautiful lagoon remained unfrozen even in winter except for the occasional drifting iceberg. But now, as these aerial images show, it appears like a solid mass even in the summer.

  'It is perfectly natural for a glacier to move. They tend to recede or advance in cycles but this time the tongue of the Breidamerkurjokull has come all the way down into the lagoon.'

  The disturbing changes pose little threat to structures or human life, with the nearest town over 60 miles away. But the rapid influx of ice is seen as a chilling reminder that greenhouses gases are altering the planet.

  Ragnar, 51, from Reykjavik, said: 'There is no threat of a disaster. The rate that the water rises, it would take more than 50 years for it to take the bridge but people in the area still feel it's global warming that's doing it.

  'The end result is this extra freshwater is pouring into the sea at an alarming rate.'

  Despite the beautiful appearance of the contrast in water types, the pictures will worry environmentalists across the world.

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• Klimaskeptiker Info
  2009-08-27 de Gletscher haben schon weit wärmere Phasen überstanden

  Forscher der Brigham Young Universität (BYU) haben die Geschichte etlicher Gletscher im Himalaya untersucht.

  In der Erwärmungsphase vor 9000 Jahren haben sich viele Gletscher zurückgezogen (was nach dem Ende der Eiszeit eine natürliche und lang anhaltende Entwicklung darstellte).

  Einige Gletscher im Südwest-Himalaya sind aber genau in dieser Periode von einem auf sechs Kilometer angewachsen.

  Für die Zunahme der Eismassen kommen stärkere Monson-Niederschläge und eine Veränderung lokaler und regionaler Wettermuster in Frage.

• Klimaskeptiker Info
  2010-01-17 de Pachauris Irreführung der ganzen Welt über das Schmelzen der Himalaya-Gletscher

  Rajendra Pachauri, der in letzter Zeit wegen seiner Verflechtungen mit der indischen Energiewirtschaft ins Schußfeld geratene Chef des IPCC, des sogenannten "Weltklimarats" der Vereinten Nationen (UN), hat vor ein paar Wochen die indische Regierung der Arroganz beschuldigt, weil diese das von seinem IPCC prophezeite Verschwinden der Himalaya-Gletscher bis 2035 für unwahrscheinlich hält und vor allem keinen Zusammenhang mit der vermeintlichen anthropogenen Erwärmung (AGW) anerkennt.

• Klimaskeptiker Info
  2010-01-23 de NASA rudert zurück: Zitat der falschen Himalaya-Gletscher-Prognose verschwunden

  Wenn Sie auf der Klimawandel-Internet-Seite der NASA nach unten rollen, finden Sie einen Eintrag, der das Abschmelzen von Gletschern behandelt. Noch vor vier Tagen sah dieser Eintrag anders aus.

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en Himalayan glaciers

• Whats Up With That? (Antony Watts)
  2009-08-29 en Study: Glaciers defied hotter temperatures 9000 years ago

• Brigham Young University
  2009-08-27 en BYU geologist solves mystery of glaciers that grew while Asia heated up

  9,000 years ago. While most other Central Asian glaciers retreated under hotter summer temperatures, this group of glaciers advanced from one to six kilometers.

  "Stronger monsoons were thought to be responsible,"

  "Our research indicates the extra snowfall from monsoonal effects can only take credit for up to 30 percent of the glacial advance."

  As Central Asia's summer climate warmed as much as 6 degrees Celsius, shifting weather patterns brought more clouds to the Southeast Himalayas. The additional shade created a pocket of cooler temperatures.

  Temperatures also dropped when higher winds spurred more evaporation in this typically humid area, the same process behind household swamp coolers.

  The story of these seemingly anomalous glaciers underscores the important distinction between the terms "climate change" and "global warming."

• Watts Up With That? (Antony Watts)
  2009-11-11 en Pachauri claims Indian scientific position "arrogant"
  IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri accuses Indian environment ministry of 'arrogance' for its report claiming there is no evidence that climate change has shrunk Himalayan glaciers
• 2010-01-17 en Told ya so... IPCC to retract claim on Himalayan Glacier Melt - Pachauri's "arrogance" claim backfires
• Whats Up With That? (Antony Watts)
  2010-02-03 en Lawrence Berkeley National Labs (LBNL) on Himalayas: "greenhouse gases alone are not nearly enough to be responsible for the snow melt"

• Times Online
  2010-01-17 en World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown

  IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri accuses Indian environment ministry of A WARNING that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of scientific blunders by the United Nations body that issued it.

  Two years ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a benchmark report that was claimed to incorporate the latest and most detailed research into the impact of global warming. A central claim was the world's glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035.

  In the past few days the scientists behind the warning have admitted that it was based on a news story in the New Scientist, a popular science journal, published eight years before the IPCC's 2007 report.

  It has also emerged that the New Scientist report was itself based on a short telephone interview with Syed Hasnain, a little-known Indian scientist then based at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi.

  Hasnain has since admitted that the claim was "speculation" and was not supported by any formal research. If confirmed it would be one of the most serious failures yet seen in climate research. The IPCC was set up precisely to ensure that world leaders had the best possible scientific advice on climate change

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• 20 Minutes
  2010-01-20 fr Fonte des glaciers de l'Himalaya: le GIEC reconnaît son erreur mais défend la tendance

  En 2007, dans son 4è rapport, qui lui avait valu le Prix Nobel de la Paix, le GIEC avait estimé que les glaciers de l'Himalaya reculaient plus vite que les autres du monde et «pourraient disparaître d'ici 2035, voire avant».

  Rajendra Pachauri, le chef du groupe, a déclaré à la presse à Abou Dhabi en marge d'un sommet sur les énergies du futur, que même si cette prévision était erronée, il n'en demeure pas moins que le changement climatique est réel.

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Kilimandscharo

• Die Weltwoche / Hans Rentsch
  2010-03-03 de Verzerrte Bilder

  Eine besonders beliebte Ikone der KlimaAlarmisten ist die schmelzende Eiskappe des majestätischen Kilimandscharo.

  Auch Al Gore verwendete die Story vom Verschwinden der Kilimandscharo-Eiskappe in seinem Film "Eine unbequeme Wahrheit".

  Was die Forschung zum Rückgang des Kilimandscharo-Eises tatsächlich sagt, kann man im Buch "Climate of Extremes" der Umwelt- und Klimaforscher Patrick J. Michaels (IPCC-Autor) und Robert C. Balling nachlesen:

  Erstens hatten die Gletscher des Kilimandscharo nach Ende der letzten Eiszeit, als es während mehrerer Jahrtausende ohne menschliches CO2 wärmer war als heute, eine viel grössere Ausdehnung.

  Zweitens hat die Forschung festgestellt, dass in Ostafrika um 1880 ein markanter Rückgang der Feuchtigkeit in der Atmosphäre stattfand.
  Damals begannen gleichzeitig mit dem Rückgang der Gletscher die Spiegel der ostafrikanischen Seen zu sinken.

  Die Ausdehnung der Kilimandscharo-Eiskappe hat offenbar primär mit der Luftfeuchtigkeit zu tun.

  So ist es auch nicht überraschend, dass die Gletscher an den Flanken des Berges zwischen 1912 und 1953, als es noch keinen nennenswerten CO2-Einfluss gab, stärker zurückgingen als heute.

  Die Schrumpfungsrate zwischen 1989 und 2003 war sogar die kleinste in der untersuchten Periode von 1912 bis 2003. N. J. Cullen (Universität Innsbruck) und seine Co-Autoren folgerten in einem Beitrag in der Zeitschrift Geophysical Research Letters, dass die Gletscher des Berges als Überreste eines früheren Klimas zu sehen seien.

  Als Ikone für den menschenverursachten Klimawandel scheidet der Kilimandscharo aus.

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Zurückgehende Gletscher
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fr Diminution des glaciers

• Climate Skeptic en Retreating Glaciers

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Gletscherlänge
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• The National Academic Press en Glacier Length and Mass Balance Records

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  SF1 Schweizer Fernsehen
  2008-10-23 de Gletscherholz als Klimaarchiv

• World Glacier Monitoring Service en Gacier Mass Balance Bulletin No. 8 (2002-2003)

• World Climate Report en Search: Glaciers/Sea Ice
  2007-06-12 en A Kilimanjaro We-told-you-so
  2007-06-26 en Mont Blanc Glaciers Refuse to Shrink?
  2008-07-28 en Back to Africa: Kilimanjaro Update

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Aus der Panik-Küche

• TF1 France fr La fonte des glaciers en Suisse

• NZZ Online
  2007-12-16 en Was kümmern mich schmelzende Gletscher?
  Der Klimawandel stellt Fragen der Gerechtigkeit in Bezug auf arme Länder und auf zukünftig Lebende

• Whats Up With That? (Antony Watts)
  2009-05-05 en Unprecedented Incoherence In The Ice Message

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