tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661459584526509075.post108157037292264237..comments2024-01-27T04:42:05.180-08:00Comments on Critical Narrative: UN Could Retract Himalayan Glacier Meltdown Claimyukio ngabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13132998741555231924noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661459584526509075.post-16968066309623964542010-01-18T19:35:20.576-08:002010-01-18T19:35:20.576-08:00So a copy-editing error and a telephone interview ...So a copy-editing error and a telephone interview based solely on speculation is the kind of evidence the UN finds to be sufficient... <br /><br />"This kind of so-called 'scholarship' makes me crazy."<br /><br />Not to be a downer, but I find this to be well along the norm in academia. In the areas I'm most acquainted with (English, narrative theory, literary criticism, and a smattering of linguistics) it's ridiculous how isolated from reality the faculty tend to be. <br /><br />Mann and the alarmists stand to gain a great deal of money. They hide behind the respectability of academia-- a trick that won't work for much longer as more and more people discover the intellectual dregs and laziness that make up so much of higher education at this point. <br /><br />It's sad, but it can be rectified. In fact, I'm under the opinion that academia can't help but be readjusted relatively soon since what essentially is a con-game can only last for so long.yukio ngabyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13132998741555231924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661459584526509075.post-58540898535305881102010-01-18T16:21:54.424-08:002010-01-18T16:21:54.424-08:00Sorry about the previous deletion--serious typo.
...Sorry about the previous deletion--serious typo.<br /><br />It's even worse than they're letting on.<br /><br />The original source for the 2035 date so enthusiastically published and disseminated by the IPCC came from a date erroneously transcribed from a single article by a guy named Kotlyakov, in which he hypothesized the future date of the Himalayan glacial melt as 2335, not 2035--a difference of a mere 300 years!<br /><br />These Mann-caused global warming alarmists were willing to put the entire world into a sweat based on one estimate, with no follow up, no checking of data, and no copy-editing, even though the 2035 date is in complete disagreement with the results of documented evidence provided by on-site measurements that show the slowing of the recession of 4 of the 5 major Himalayan glaciers.<br /><br />Now, I ask you, if someone told you that the Himalayan glaciers were going to melt in the next couple of decades, would you ask to read the research? --Don't answer. Without ever having met you, I know that you would. <br /><br />This kind of so-called "scholarship" makes me crazy.<br /><br />Here's the citation: Kotlyakov, V.M., 1996, The future of glaciers under the expected climate warming, 61-66, in Kotlyakov, V.M., ed., 1996, Variations of Snow and Ice in the Past and at Present on a Global and Regional Scale, Technical Documents in Hydrology, 1. UNESCO, Paris (IHP-IV Project H-4.1.Quite Rightlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06454908849040454661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661459584526509075.post-65531661170200471592010-01-18T16:13:16.274-08:002010-01-18T16:13:16.274-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Quite Rightlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06454908849040454661noreply@blogger.com