Doom: Models State Most Himalayan Glaciers Could Disappear By 2100

I recently mentioned “cli-fi”, which is “climate fiction”, a growing subsection of novels and stories which incorporate climate change into the overall story. Rather like when authors would write fiction books based on nuclear war, EMP events, even zombies (I love a good zombie book, FYI, and read the heck out of them). Of course, most apocalyptic fiction books were more on the story, and how people survive, rather than being preachy about the subject, unlike cli-fi. I wonder, can we put all the doomsaying from the Cult of Climastrology into the realm of cli-fi, since it does seem rather fictional?

Scientists warn Everest glaciers at risk of disappearing

Glaciers in the Everest region could shrink at least 70 percent or even disappear entirely by the end of the century as a result of climate change, scientists warned on Wednesday.

Researchers in Nepal, the Netherlands and France studied weather patterns on the roof of the world and then created a model of conditions on Everest to determine the future impact of rising temperatures on its glaciers.

“The worst-case scenario shows a 99 percent loss in glacial mass… but even if we start to slow down emissions somewhat, we may still see a 70 percent reduction,” said Joseph Shea, who led the study.

Doom in 2100? Check. Computer models? Check. Blaming Mankind for “emissions”? Check. Forgetting that there has barely been any warming since 1998, which goes against 95% of the computer models (the same computer models that also fail when applied to pre-model data)? Check. Hedging their bets with un-scientific words like “could” and “may”? Check. Don’t tell the UK Guardian, though, because they are All In In Doomology

Most glaciers in Mount Everest area will disappear with climate change – study

Most of the glaciers in the Mount Everest region will disappear or drastically retreat as temperatures increase with climate change over the next century, according to a group of international researchers.

The estimated 5,500 glaciers in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region – site of Mount Everest and many of the world’s tallest peaks – could reduce their volume by 70%-99% by 2100, with dire consequences for farming and hydropower generation downstream, they said.

Even the Guardian couldn’t avoid using the word “could”. Then they slipped this in down in the article, after proclaiming Doom

There is still much uncertainty about how deeply levels of greenhouse gases will affect temperature, snowfall and rainfall, and very few of the region’s glaciers have been measured in detail. However, increasing rates of snow and ice melt are already observable and precipitation is expected to change from snow to rain at critical elevations, where glaciers are concentrated.

So, deep uncertainty, but, the Guardian and other Warmists are certain of doom.

The researchers caution that the new results should be seen as a first approximation to how Himalayan glaciers will react to increasing temperatures in the region.

“Our estimates need to be taken very cautiously, as considerable uncertainties remain,” said Patrick Wagnon, a glaciologist at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement in Grenoble, France and co-author of the report.

In other words, this is just another in a long line of scary stories, cli-fi, if you will, based on computer models and partisan political Beliefs.

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15 Responses to “Doom: Models State Most Himalayan Glaciers Could Disappear By 2100”

  1. TrishMac says:

    Love the term- Cli-Fi. Fitting.

  2. It always seems a bit obscene to me, kinda like the Cult of Climastrology itself.

  3. TrishMac says:

    Exactly. Instead of having more probing questions about the “findings” or the “studies”, instead of asking why these things only “could” happen, they have unswerving penultimate faith. Very unscientific. And it is so unlike a lefty, to have faith. Makes perfect sense that this IS their only religion. The foundation for all of their misplaced or abandoned search for a God. The church of Global warming.

  4. john says:

    Trish also is one with special scientific knowledge
    Would you agree that the Joint Chiefs of Staff have now also joined the cult and conspiracy?

  5. gitarcarver says:

    Would you agree that the Joint Chiefs of Staff have now also joined the cult and conspiracy?

    Would you agree that the JCS follow orders from the Commander in Chief?

  6. Liam Thomas says:

    Would you agree that the Joint Chiefs of Staff have now also joined the cult and conspiracy?

    When Bush was president Iraq had WMDS….when Obama is president EXXON has WMDs.

    Gotta love Progressives…they can put a boggie man behind every tree with the best of any conservative.

  7. Jl says:

    “Would you agree the JCS follow orders from the Commander in Chief?” That’s way beyond John’s ability to process.

  8. Jeffery says:

    Teach,

    You’re giving the odious jimhoft over to the Gateway Pudendum a run for his money as the “dumbest man on the internet”.

    Forgetting that there has barely been any warming since 1998,

    That’s a lie.

    which goes against 95% of the computer models (the same computer models that also fail when applied to pre-model data)?

    That’s a twofer. (Two lies in one sentence fragment!)

    Teach is a liar. These same lies have been corrected yet he continues his lying.

  9. Liam Thomas says:

    Forgetting that there has barely been any warming since 1998,

    That’s a lie.

    Really?

    “Any work we have done in the past is done on the back of the research grants we get – and has to be well hidden,” Jones writes in another newly released email. “I’ve discussed this with the main funder (U.S. Dept of Energy) in the past and they are happy about not releasing the original station data.”

    Oh and here is the real kicker……..

    “Mike, can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith [Briffa] re AR4 [UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 4th Assessment]?” Jones wrote to Penn State University scientist Michael Mann in an email released in Climategate 1.0. “Keith will do likewise. … We will be getting Caspar [Ammann] to do likewise. I see that CA [the Climate Audit Web site] claim they discovered the 1945 problem in the Nature paper!!”

    Remember that 1942 spike in co2 that has omniously dissappeared? AS climate truthers destroy data around the world and the internet that can challenge their “SCIENCE IS SETTLED POSITION.”

    And finally to the point we have this………

    “Observations do not show rising temperatures throughout the tropical troposphere unless you accept one single study and approach and discount a wealth of others. This is just downright dangerous. We need to communicate the uncertainty and be honest. Phil, hopefully we can find time to discuss these further if necessary,” writes Peter Thorne of the UK Met Office.

    This is akin to the single CO2 chart that cherry picks carbon data over the course of 12,000 years and then establishes a low baseline of CO2 while ignoring plenty of data that shows spikes in co2 that would rise the baseline rather substantially and show that co2 has been as high as 442 ppm in the last 12,000 years. But thats okay. If we destroy the contradicting evidence and threaten those that would espouse it……we will be just fine.

    And the Coup De Gra:

    “Global warming is still happening – our planet is still accumulating heat. But our observation systems aren’t able to comprehensively keep track of where all the energy is going. Consequently, we can’t definitively explain why surface temperatures have gone down in the last few years. That’s a travesty!”

    A lie repeated often enough becomes the truth. Vladimir Lenin.

    Lenin and Stalin would be very pleased with the state of affairs as the STATE hides the truth from the people for its own political gain…in this case make them think we are doing it for their own good.

  10. Jeffery says:

    It’s a giant plot wrapped in a conspiracy started by Lenin and Stalin with a bit of Hitler, Mussolini and Mao added, planning the establishment of a socialist, fascist, Nazi, communist New World Order where white conservatives will be unwilling slaves; using global warming as a pretext to take the money and property of white patriots. FREEDOM!

    And you nitwits call climate realists politically motivated.

    The Earth is warming. Only 3% of the 3% don’t understand that. The Earth is spherical; the moon is not made of cheese. CO2 absorbs infrared radiation from the Earth and releases it back into the atmosphere and into space. Humans have added about 40% more CO2 into the atmosphere. It would be strange if the Earth was not warming! Even the ignorati admit that humans should transition away from fossil fuels for energy – but fight it ’cause liberals. You hate progressives more than you love the Earth and mankind.

  11. drowningpuppies says:

    Two years ago (2008) 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.

    Ooops!
    Just kidding, we meant 2100.
    Our bad.
    Need more government grants.

  12. Liam Thomas says:

    It’s a giant plot wrapped in a conspiracy started by Lenin and Stalin with a bit of Hitler, Mussolini and Mao added, planning the establishment of a socialist, fascist, Nazi, communist New World Order where white conservatives will be unwilling slaves; using global warming as a pretext to take the money and property of white patriots. FREEDOM!

    Yes! You pretty much understand now the truth behind your cause. Redistribution of wealth by force. The last few times thats been attempted it hasnt gone too well. Greece, The Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Cuba.

    The Earth is warming. Only 3% of the 3% don’t understand that. The Earth is spherical; the moon is not made of cheese. CO2 absorbs infrared radiation from the Earth and releases it back into the atmosphere and into space. Humans have added about 40% more CO2 into the atmosphere. It would be strange if the Earth was not warming! Even the ignorati admit that humans should transition away from fossil fuels for energy – but fight it ’cause liberals. You hate progressives more than you love the Earth and mankind.

    I do hate communism. With a passion. Im not sure they have EVER been right about anything. Not once. Ever.

    However You keep saying this:

    Transition to what? How are you going to feed the world Jeffery. Surely you have a plan. Other wise your like Evil Kneivel….I can’t make this jump but oh well….The people paid for a show. So lets give them one.

    Your attempt at irony just simply oozes who you really are. You know Ive nailed you. Your a successful business man on the right side of the AGW movement you can surely tell us who you are and name your company. This would be great advertising for you. You would actually probably gain customers from doing so. Unlike us Deniers who have our lives ruined, our careers crushed and basically run out of town for daring to deny that the science is not settled.

  13. Liam Thomas says:

    A report revealed just this week, shows the ‘Open Society Institute’ funded Hansen to the tune of $720,000, carefully orchestrating his entire media campaign. OSI, a political group which spent $74 million in 2006 to “shape public policy,” is funded by billionaire George Soros, the largest backer of Kerry’s 2004 Presidential Campaign. Soros, who once declared that “removing Bush from office was the ”central focus” of his life, has also given tens of millions of dollars to moveon.org and other political action groups.

    What do you do when your a politician paid for by a billionaire as in Soros buying Kerry?

    And what has been the policy position taken by Kerry of late…..Climate Change is more dangerous then ISIS. Obama gives climate change speeches to the Academies.

    Only a blind kool aid drinker would fail to make these easy connections. There are others but these are so egregiously apparent that Im still wondering which corporation you founded with George Soros help?

  14. Jeffery says:

    I wish George Soros was an investor! But he doesn’t make this sort of investment. Our investors are a bit less idealistic than Soros and are interested in making money, not just spending it.

    A report revealed just this week,

    LOL. I suspect you withheld the citation because it’s from WND or Drudge.

  15. Liam Thomas says:

    With assets of $1.93 billion as of 2008, OSI alone donates scores of millions of dollars annually to these various groups. Following is a sampling of the major agendas advanced by groups that Soros and OSI support financially. Listed under each category heading are a few OSI donees fitting that description.

    Just a few of the groups the soros OSI supports.

    The Institute for Policy Studies has long supported Communist and anti-American causes around the world. It seeks to provide a corrective to the “unrestrained greed” of “markets and individualism.”
    The New America Foundation tries to influence public opinion on such topics as healthcare, environmentalism, energy policy, and global governance.
    The Urban Institute favors socialized medicine, expansion of the federal welfare bureaucracy, and tax hikes for higher income-earners.

    Since 1979, Soros’s foundation network — whose flagship is the Open Society Institute (OSI) — has dispensed more than $5 billion to a multitude of organizations whose objectives are consistent with those of Soros.

    BUT AH REKON YA DONT CARE HOW MUCH THE LEFT SPENDS BUYING POLITICIANS DO YOU JEFFERY….its them evil righties thats the real problem with this here world.

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