Lord Christopher Monckton, British politician, policy advisor and prominent climate change denier vents his spleen on Glaciergate...
The UN’s climate panel, the IPCC, is now doomed. Not a word it or its chairman says can any longer be taken seriously. The news that it is at last abandoning its entirely false claim that the glaciers of the Himalayas will disappear entirely by 2035 is one of the last nails in the coffin of this unlamented corpse.
A few weeks ago, I e-mailed Professor MI Bhat, of the Indian Geological Survey. Professor Bhat is an entertaining, courteous and always profoundly knowledgeable scientist. I asked him how his glaciers were getting on.
Professor Bhat is particularly fond of the 9575 glaciers that debouch from the high plateau of the Himalayas into India. He seems to know each of them personally – which are advancing, which are retreating and which are doing nothing much at all.
His report in response to my question was to the point. The glaciers were doing just fine, he said. Nothing unusual, compared with what could be found in the records going back at least 150 years.
What about Gangotri? I asked. He knew the answer at once. It has been receding, but not really because of “global warming”. Instead, local geological instability – common in the Himalayas– was the chief culprit.
Overall, he said, there was nothing to indicate that the glaciers were going to melt away on account of “global warming”. He was baffled by the IPCC’s contention that the glaciers would all be gone within a quarter of a century. As far as he was concerned, there was not the slightest basis in science or observation for any such notion.
The UN’s climate panel, the IPCC, is now doomed. Not a word it or its chairman says can any longer be taken seriously. The news that it is at last abandoning its entirely false claim that the glaciers of the Himalayas will disappear entirely by 2035 is one of the last nails in the coffin of this unlamented corpse.
A few weeks ago, I e-mailed Professor MI Bhat, of the Indian Geological Survey. Professor Bhat is an entertaining, courteous and always profoundly knowledgeable scientist. I asked him how his glaciers were getting on.
Professor Bhat is particularly fond of the 9575 glaciers that debouch from the high plateau of the Himalayas into India. He seems to know each of them personally – which are advancing, which are retreating and which are doing nothing much at all.
His report in response to my question was to the point. The glaciers were doing just fine, he said. Nothing unusual, compared with what could be found in the records going back at least 150 years.
What about Gangotri? I asked. He knew the answer at once. It has been receding, but not really because of “global warming”. Instead, local geological instability – common in the Himalayas– was the chief culprit.
Overall, he said, there was nothing to indicate that the glaciers were going to melt away on account of “global warming”. He was baffled by the IPCC’s contention that the glaciers would all be gone within a quarter of a century. As far as he was concerned, there was not the slightest basis in science or observation for any such notion.
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