Global Warming More Glacial

Remember Global Warming.  We ignored it starting October 2008 and really put it on ice this winter, but Climatologists tell us it is on its way, say, starting again next year.

One of the most frightening warnings was that the Himalayas, the sky-scraping mountain range that is home to Everest, would be glacier-free by 2035.  That was a lot of melted hydrogen hydroxide pounding down the slopes, most probably into Bangladesh, which wouldn't have to wait for typhoons for its extra water.

I had heard that there would be dozens of little Shangri-La's springing up in the toasty mountains, lots of fresh-tap-bottled water and damned little snowboarding.  A scary picture, indeed.

Or not.

It seems that the melting away you'll see won't be those glaciers but just some hard-won scientific credibility.

At the World Future Energy Summit, the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Catastrophes (IPCC), Rajendra Pachauri apologized for the little mistake.  He said they had just screwed up one stinking number and the glaciers would be staying put.  Not that they were wrong about anything else. Probably.

"Don't you even consider using one minor error to justify listening to Rush Limbaugh or using your fireplace," he surely warned.  "Global Warming is real and will eventually make all of Southern Florida a Disney Underwater Adventure, Himalayan glaciers notwithstanding. That is almost a fact."

It is actually refreshing to hear a Chairman or President of anything acknowledge a mistake, if only by the only Indian glaciologist you'll ever heard of. That does not happen very often and should give us all more confidence in the IPCC.

Except it doesn't.