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Merged Glaciers slightly more robust than claimed.

Now that's a ****-up if I ever saw one...

At least, as the article says "Perhaps its one consolation is that the blunder was spotted by climate scientists who quickly made it public."

Hope the axe starts dropping fast.
 
The good news is a billion people get a few decades reprieve on hydrology issues for their agriculture....bads news is - that's a maybe given the "underestimates" of speed of change in the cryosphere.

There are a few other glaciers predicted to last a long time that are non-existent now.

Speculative nature of the comment should have been caught earlier tho and not been in the IPCC report.
 
If it means the next report is fact checked more strigently then it's over all a good outcome.
 
I have heard that the glaciers in New Zealand have 10 years left and the southern Canadian Rockies (think Lake Louise) have 20.
 
tracer said:
Maybe the pictured glacier isn't gone, it just moved somewhere else?
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No that's Upsala. Like all of the worlds Glaciers it's been retreating on and off since the end of the last Glaciation. That’s kinda the definition.

Upsala went through a rapid retreat phase recently which might be due to increased warming but also might be due to a relaxation of a pinning stress. Perhaps a bit of both. Over the last eight or nine years the retreat has slowed dramatically and Upsala West has actually grown a bit.
 
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DogB said:
Any sources?
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Alpine Club of Canada. Mountaineers are quite concerned about glacier retreat, although realistically nothing can be done about it. It has been a talking point to galvanize members into action on climate change issues.

I've heard the figures repeated verbally by several sources, but I don't know where they originally came from.

Maybe somebody in this erudite crowd has more concrete information.
 
The ACC had a workshop in 2005 and i believe the figures quoted were from that event. I searched online and I could find the proceedings, but I couldn't find those exact figures.

It may be that ours will be the generation that says goodbye to the mountain cryosphere.
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proceedings pdf link
 
Well I'm a long way from being an expert on Canadian glaciers but I do know that pretty much all the southern alp glaciers in NZ are growing.

That said, they are probably bucking the trend - overall it think there is still a general worldwide retreat. North American glaciers in particular seem to have suffered terribly since 1850.
 
Well, it's maybe because it blows the "international scientist cabal" out of the water. After all, it were other climate scientists that noted and reported the error.
 
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