2009-12-07 06:33:15 - Sikhim 84 glacier grown about four times in six years.NASA images of the Arctic Ocean revealing an expansion of sea ice or some other such apparent “evidence” that climate science is all wrong.

The rise in the number of glaciers belied the impact of the global warming phenomena in the Sikhim region with the scientist pointing out that the impact of global warming has never been a factor in the climate of the border state with the state being landlocked and surrounded by the mountainous landscape on all sides.Sikkim comprising 0.5 per cent of India’s landmass has 84 glaciers, the largest number as compared to any other state or union territory.

The present number of glaciers at 84, with the mapping exercise still underway to find about out more ice caps in the state has grown by about four times over the past six years as the figure ofglaciers stood at 21 at that

time, a senior scientist of the science and technology department, which has been carrying out mapping of the glaciers and other landscapes of the state said.The glaciers have been mapped by using remote sensing application system and capturing data through satellite, he said.While most of the glaciers are found in the north district, the Zemu glacier in West Sikkim, which lies in a u-shape, is the largest such ice cap with an ice mass spread over 26 km, he said.The department has plans to map the lakes and forest cover of the state through remote sensing application system, besides sending a team to the interior parts of the state to collect information on the number ofglaciers, lakes and forests, the scientist said.The state government had set up a nine-member commission under the leadership of a scientist, T S Singh last year to find out the impact of global warming phenomena on the topography of the mountai


The COP 15 opens up today in the Copenhagen, the global conference of more than 190 nations congregate at the Bella Centre, 123,000 sq mtr venue close to the Danish capital's Kastrup Airport world leaders to meet and discuss about climate change assemble here for tweleve days of negotiations aimed at stopping global warming.

'Time is up,' Ivo de Boer, the UN's chief negotiator, said as he urged leaders to deliver 'ambitious' greenhouse gas cuts over the next two weeks. UN Climate Change Conference is to officially start today with an opening ceremony to be attended by Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen. More than 15,000 people, including more than hunbdred government leaders and thousands of negotiators, pressure groups and journalists are expected to attend what officials describe as 'the biggest show on earth.

Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University’s Earth Institute was on MSNBC, said I remember it Looking to geologically recent history at the climate fluctuations which the Earth has experienced is perhaps interesting and helps us understand the natural changes of the past, but to spend much time on that is a red herring on the current discussion of the observed and expected adverse impacts resulting from escalated pumping of massive quantities of human-produced greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere by the U.S., India, and China, among many more countries. If the Wall Street Journal’s campaign to discredit this science, and by implication all of science, were to be successful, it would be disastrous for the position of the U.S. in the world.
But when he is questioned about NASA images of the Arctic Ocean revealing an expansion of sea ice or some other such apparent “evidence” that climate science is all wrong.he was asked, “How could there be multi year ice formed if it almost all melted recently and just reformed last winter? It would seem that would be impossible. If it all melts again next summer, then that would be an event.” Sach adds,The arctic ocean is not completely all frozen or all melted. There are regions that don’t melt, especially in shallow areas with little or no warmer water inflow, but I would have to research it more carefully to find out more about this. What I do know is that historically the Arctic ocean freezes each winter and parts would melt in summer. In recent years, the melted area has increased. And in winter it would not freeze all the way.There are two measures of the viability of the sea ice to support the polar bear population (an indicator species, like the canary in the mine). One is the area of coverage. Two is the depth of the frozen ice. I’ve been hearing stories before this one that the ice was thinning as well as not covering as large an area, and in summer the open ocean areas have increased significantly (though not opening up the whole ocean).

Therefore it is apparently saying is that when you look deeper into what’s going on, more than what space images of the area of coverage show, you find that “the thick, multi-year frozen sheets crucial to the northern eco-system have been replaced by thin ‘rotten’ ice that can’t support the weight of polarbears.” which mean that the ice that remains in the NASA images is no longer thick, multi-year frozen sheets known to exist (and routinely measured for decades by under-the ice nuclear submarines, data recently made publicly available to scientists) but thinner stuff.

Unquote, another sign of problems with the Arctic Ocean sea ice needs to to be studied for more years and observe the the frozen ice its extending or reducing areas which should have its study base on decade to twenty five years of study which depends on Suns radiation which also change in larger span thus needs to be studied in details.

In study of human made misery of this triple C,of climate contro controversy,The Human made activities such as wars, poor quality coal energy,wartorn nationsn,the testing of nuclear war head,oil driven vehicals with their carbon tyre producing most of the Co2 emission in the world along with production of plastic moulded electronic products are adding the world the obscurity for the future.

America, consumes more than 20% of the worlds resources,curiously exempted itself from Kyoto,the urge to develop China has polluted vast ecological resources, hundreds of coal plants are still being built.

The silver linning in this global fiscal crisis has reduced the GHG emission with economic growth declining to levels of three persent starting in 2007, growing into 2009 and probably reaching its low point to continue for couple of years said by experts in the economic sector say upto 2012 then the globe has seen in the year 2008 GDP dropped by almost three percent with in its footsteps followed CO2 emissions an increase of about three percent and globe get GHG reduction to three percent decrease, but in total CO2 emissions have dropped six percent in one year in real sense.

Global fiscal crisis if is lasts another three years the economic activity recedes directly proportionatly thus expect a drop of further minum ten percent to twenty percent or so in GHG emissions. The study is well contained in the graphs from Lester Brown and his Earth Policy institute that thinks that emissions have dropped since 2007 by a whopping nine percent which is very encouraging and significant in todays talk of climate change.