Indian Scientists Call UN Glacier Retreat Claim Unscientific

Aug. 28, 2009 (EIRNS)—Disputing the forecast made by the United Nations body studying global warming, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which warned in early May that the glaciers in the world's highest mountain range could vanish within three decades, V.K. Raina, a leading glaciologist and former Additional Director-General of Geological Survey of India (GSI), claimed recently that the issue of glacial retreat is being sensationalized by a few individuals. Raina, who has been associated with the research and data collection in over 25 glaciers in India and abroad, debunked the theory that the Gangotri glacier is retreating alarmingly. He maintains that the glaciers are undergoing natural changes which are witnessed periodically.

As globe warmed, Georgia cooled - The Augusta Chronicle

SAVANNAH, Ga. - Average global temperatures have risen about 1.5 degrees over the past 150 years, but not in Georgia.

Instead, average state temperatures have declined a little less than a degree over most of that period, Assistant State Climatologist Pam Knox said at the Georgia Environmental Conference on Thursday.

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