Claims by the world’s leading climate scientists that most of the Himalayan glaciers will vanish within 25 years have been exposed as total nonsense.

The alarming warning was issued two years ago in a highly influential report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). At the time the IPCC claimed that the report contained the latest and most detailed evidence yet of the risks of man-made climate change to the planet.

However the experts behind the claim have now admitted that their warning was not actually based on hard science and was in fact based on a telephone chat with another scientist who has since admitted that it was pure speculation.  Read more... (223 words, 1 image, estimated 54 secs reading time)

The Petermann glacier, the largest glacier in the Arctic, is about to lose a major chunk of ice which measures roughly the same size as Manhattan.

Last summer, scientists noticed that the glacier’s tongue had a large crack across it, a crack which measured around 16km in length. The discovery was so concerning that researchers returned to the glacier’s ice tongue this year and have setup cameras and sensors around the glacier to monitor it’s progress and to get a really accurate picture of the breakup, if and when it happens.  Read more... (339 words, estimated 1:21 mins reading time)