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Originally Posted by PhantomPholly
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I wish that was good news but considering what is happening globally in regard to ice retreat and permafrost's, it's a blip in a general trend and who knows, it may be explained by greater precipitation from the seas due to increased temperatures causing extra snowfall in the Himalayas despite trending warmer Himalayan temperatures and significant glacial retreats over many decades.
Glaciers in many places take years to advance after snowfall and it would not surprise me that glacial retreat was slowed during the 11 year solar minimum we just passed through and that with solar radiation on the increase again, Himalayan glacial retreat will be back to normal.
In my last holidays I visited the Franz Joesph Glacier and shown below is the evidence of typical glacial retreat we are experiencing in NZ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Josef_Glacier
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