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George Monbiot has taken David Bellamy to task for talking a load of rubbish about global warming.

For the past three weeks, a set of figures has been working a hole in my mind. On April 16th, New Scientist published a letter from the famous botanist David Bellamy. Many of the world’s glaciers, he claimed, “are not shrinking but in fact are growing. ... 555 of all the 625 glaciers under observation by the World Glacier Monitoring Service in Zurich, Switzerland, have been growing since 1980.” His letter was instantly taken up by climate change deniers. And it began to worry me. What if Bellamy was right?

He is a scientist, formerly a senior lecturer at the University of Durham. He knows, in other words, that you cannot credibly cite data unless it is well-sourced. Could it be that one of the main lines of evidence of the impacts of global warming – the retreat of the world’s glaciers – was wrong?

Its a good summary of just how nuts the global warming denial fraternity is - Bellamy was sane 20 years ago but now he's quoting Lyndon LaRouche.

Elswhere the Swiss are worried about their glaciers disappearing entirely.

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