Glaciers expand--and contract.

Glaciers expand and contract all the time, and while some glaciers are shrinking at present, others are growing. In New Zealand, for instance, the Franz Josef and Fox glaciers are advancing. According to a January 21 report in The Press (New Zealand), "Franz Josef Glacier Guides base manager Tom Arnold estimated the Franz Josef and the Fox had advanced hundreds of metres in the past year." Meanwhile, in India, the Hindustan Times reported on February 11 that glaciers in the Himalayas appear stable, contrary to earlier reports that claimed that Himalayan glaciers were retreating more than 30 feet per year. Citing the work of scientist V.K. Raina, the Indian paper noted "that out of 9,575 glaciers in India, till date, research has been conducted only on about 50. Nearly 200 years data has shown that nothing abnormal has occurred in any of these glaciers."

Why the discrepancy with earlier reports about massive melting in the Himalayas? "Claims of global warming causing glacial melt in the Himalayas are based on wrong assumptions," Raina told the Hindustan Times, proving, once again, that climate change is not as cut and dried as proponents of the orthodox view of global warming claim.