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Greenpeace is up to their usual tricks.   They're claiming (7th August 2002) that the Svalbard glacier in Norway is disappearing due to global warming.   

Here are the pictures which they present as evidence.

and again:

It certainly looks impressive doesn't it?   Nor does Greenpeace have any doubts about the cause.

"It is a sad irony that temperature increases due to climate change means that the glaciers of Svalbard are retreating."

"Glaciers are on the wane and we risk losing them altogether if we don’t massively reduce greenhouse emissions."

"The blame can be put squarely on human activity. Our addiction to fossil fuels releases millions of tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and this is what is causing temperatures to rise, and our future to melt before our eyes."

Click here to read the whole press release 

http://archive.greenpeace.org/earthsummit/news_aug7.htm

There's only one problem.  The glacier retreat is not caused by man-made global warming.   

The main expert on Svalbard' glaciers is Professor Ole Humlum, Professor of Physical Geography, University of Copenhagen , who spoke to the Daily Telegraph yesterday (August 17th 2002):

"That glacier had already disappeared in the early 1920's as a result of perfectly natural rise in temperature that had nothing to do with man-made global warming." 

"The picture series is at best misleading.  They should have asked the specialists on Svalbard first."

Ho, hum?  

Jim Thornton 18 August 2002

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