OH DEAR, OH DEAR, GET THE WHITE-OUT...BEFORE THEY NOTICE – AT 8:40 A.M. ET:  It appears that another piece of "climate change" research – you know, that "settled science" – has fallen apart.  From Britain's Telegraph:

Researchers have discovered that contrary to popular belief half of the ice flows in the Karakoram range of the Himalayan mountains are actually growing rather than shrinking.

The discovery adds a new twist to the row over whether global warming is causing the world's highest mountain range to lose its ice cover.

It further challenges claims made in a 2007 report by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that the glaciers would be gone by 2035.

Although the head of the panel Dr Rajendra Pachauri later admitted the claim was an error gleaned from unchecked research, he maintained that global warming was melting the glaciers at "a rapid rate," threatening floods throughout north India.

The new study by scientists at the Universities of California and Potsdam has found that half of the glaciers in the Karakoram range, in the northwestern Himlaya, are in fact advancing and that global warming is not the deciding factor in whether a glacier survives or melts.

COMMENT:  When is this country going to finally establish a blue-ribbon commission, like the Challenger commission, to get to the bottom of this?  The farce has gone on long enough, especially the farce involving data supplied by the UN, that great center of integrity and righteousness.

A commission, made up of experts of unimpeachable reputations, could determine what we know, what we don't know, and what we should know, to make valid choices.  This is long overdue.

Why don't we have such a commission?  I suspect it's because there are powerful interests, with financial stakes, involved in the whole shady enterprise of "climate change."

January 27, 2011