OutSourcedNews-Group

On 1/21/2010 7:14 PM, Fred B. Brown wrote:
>
> “Beam Me Up Scotty” wrote in
> message news:4b58659f$0$10358$ec3e2dad@&#$?%unlimited.usenetmonster.com…
>> On 1/21/2010 8:45 AM, Fred B. Brown wrote:
>>> Updated January 20, 2010
>>> By Gene J. Koprowski
>>>
>>> – FOXNews.com
>>>
>>>
>>> The world’s most famous climate change expert is in the midst of a
>>> massive controversy, as the leading environmental science institute he
>>> heads scrambled to explain data it promulgated for a U.N. report.
>>>
>>> An oft-cited report by the U.N.’s IPCC panel that the Himalayan glaciers
>>> will melt by 2035 may soon be retracted.
>>>
>>> The world’s most famous climate change expert is at the center of a
>>> massive controversy as the leading environmental science institute he
>>> heads scrambled to explain its assertion that the Himalayan glaciers
>>> will melt completely in 25 years.
>>>
>>> Rajendra Pachauri, head of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
>>> Change (IPCC) and director general of the Energy and Resources Institute
>>> (TERI) in New Dehli, India, said this week that the U.N. body was
>>> studying how its 2007 report to the United Nations derived information
>>> that led to its famous conclusion: that the glaciers will melt by 2035.
>>>
>>> Today, the IPCC issued a statement offering regret for the poorly vetted
>>> statements. “The Chair, Vice-Chairs, and Co-chairs of the IPCC regret
>>> the poor application of well-established IPCC procedures,” the statement
>>> says, though it goes short of issuing a full retraction or reprinting
>>> the report.
>>>
>>> Pachauri told Reuters on Monday that the group was looking into the
>>> issue, and planned to “take a position on it in the next two or three
>>> days.”
>>>
>>> The IPCC’s 2007 report, simply titled AR4, claimed that “glaciers in the
>>> Himalayas are receding faster than in any other part of the world, and
>>> if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by
>>> the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming
>>> at the current rate.”
>>>
>>> Contacted by FoxNews.com at TERI, officials would not respond to a
>>> request for additional comment. IPCC is expected to withdraw the
>>> report’s claim eventually.
>>>
>>> Read the rest at:
>>>
>>> http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/20/panels-glacier-disaster-claims-melting-away/?test=latestnews
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> News ABC, NBC and CBS don’t report on. Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien
>>>
>>> are more important.
>>
>> I just asked someone here a few weeks ago, “Where did all the water go”
>> if all these Glaciers around the planet have melted by 50%, according
>> to Al Gore it would have raised the Oceans by half of the 21 feet he
>> predicted.
>>
>> Thus far the Oceans have risen how much?
>>
>> Saying that the Glaciers are melted and will be gone soon was an obvious
>> lie.
>>
>> Either that, or all that water went to outer space.
>>

Aliens… stole it???? I was jesting.

I realize that it’s not normally sucked into space.

> Water does not evaporate into space, the earth has had the same
> amount of water for billions of years in one form or another. Ice,
> snow or just plain water.

The point being that the Al Gore numbers don’t add up.

How much melting and how much sea level rise?