Christopher Booker: Stubborn glaciers fail to retreat, awkward polar bears continue to multiply - Telegraph

...Furthermore a British study published two years ago by the American Meteorological Society found that glaciers are only shrinking in the eastern Himalayas. Further west, in the Hindu Kush and the Karakoram, glaciers are "thickening and expanding".

Meanwhile, all last week, ITV News was running a series of wearisomely familiar scare stories on the disappearing Arctic ice and those "doomed" polar bears - without telling its viewers that satellite images now show ice cover above its 30-year average, or that polar bear numbers are at record level. But then "polar bears not drowning after all - as snow falls over large parts of Britain" doesn't really make a story.

American Thinker Blog: Save the whales trapped in Arctic ice

Of course, when discussing global climate, it is silly to focus on ice conditions in one spot or another. Ice packs can melt in some areas while increasing elsewhere. But the emotion-driven warmists love to find one glacier or one ice mass and point to it as a sign of imminent disaster. For example this emailer identifying herself as Pamela Lewis, who claims a scientific background:

Dear Sir:

I have a degree in astrophysics. I suggest that you spend money and go to Greenland, the North Pole and Antarctica and see the climate change for yourself. Instead you degrade scientists and don't care about the future of this country. I feel sorry for you and your lack of knowledge. Instead you rather destroy your children's future and this planet's future. If you believe in God, shame on you for not taking care of this planet. You would rather see it destroyed. I believe in God and believe in saving the planet as the Lord said we are keepers of this planet. If you don't then you must believe in greed, hatred and hostile racism towards President Elect Obama. Grow up and do scientific studies yourself.