Source: Climate Change Reconsidered Bali, R., Agarwal, K.K.,
Ali, S.N. and Srivastava, P. 2011. Is the recessional pattern of
Himalayan glaciers suggestive of anthropogenically induced
global warming? Arabian Journal of Geosciences 4: 1087-1093.
Bali et al. (2011) introduce their review of what is known about
Himalayan glaciers by noting that a “glacial inventory carried
out by the Geological Survey of India reveals the existence of
over 9,000 valley glaciers in India and at least about 2,000
glaciers in Nepal and Bhutan,” citing Raina (2006). And they say
that “following the alarmist approach of the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),” a number of subsequent reports
related to the bleak future of Himalayan glaciers have been
issued, mainly through the media. These reports, as they
describe them, have suggested that “almost all Indian glaciers
including the Gangotri glacier will vanish from the Earth in the
next few decades.” More particularly, they say the reports
suggest that “initially, there