***UPDATE - A couple hours after posting this I dipped over to Drudge and found a link to a UPI story, reporting that Russian scientists are predicting "global cooling" to start within a few years, plunging us in to a second "mini-ice age" for about five decades. SCROLL FOR DETAILS.***

As if the discoveries that plants are a cause of "global warming", that the dino era Atlantic Ocean was a hot tub, and that Greenland's glaciers have naturally been melting for over 100 years weren't embarassing enough for global warmists, they've had to deal with a below average hurricane season after everyone predicted a busy storm year, which the global warmists prematurely blamed on warmer waters caused by "global warming". Now, in addition to the countless studies of other growing glacier scientists have been studying growing glaciers in Asia. Of course the religion of "global warming" prevents any "scientist" from questioning the whole theory, but it's always interesting to see reporting on growing glaciers, when all we ever hear is that they're all shrinking, and it's your fault if you drive an SUV.

The dogmatism of the belief is revealed in the first two paragraphs:

New research published today into climate change in Asia could explain why many glaciers there are growing and not melting.

The investigation into the western Himalaya and the surrounding Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountains shows that this area could be reacting differently to global warming, the phenomenon blamed for causing glaciers to melt and shrink.

This would be hilarious if it weren't so serious. These members of the church of warming are so blind to the obvious, they just can't look objectively at the evidence. It's just like the Darwinists... whenever they see evidence that indicates a much younger univers, or viable soft tissue in bones of supposedly 70 million year old dinosaurs, they don't question their religion, they make adjustments to make contradictory evidence fit. Lately it's become pretty much a daily task for these "science" communities.

Global Warming in action:

They found that a recent rise in winter temperatures and a cooling of summer temperatures, combined with an increase in snow and rainfall, could be causing glaciers to grow, at least in the higher mountain regions.

Scientist translation: See, global warming causes temperatures to increase. But global warming also causes temperatures to decrease. You may just call it the "weather" or natural climate change, but I assure you, it's not. What's that? How do I know? Uh... uh... No further questions.

These findings are particularly significant because temperature and rain and snow trends in the Upper Indus Basin also impact on the water availability for more than 50 million Pakistanis.

Melt water from glaciers and the previous winter's snow supplies water for the summer run-off which feeds irrigation both in the mountains and in the plains of the lower Indus.

So what you're saying is that this global warming is necessary to keep thirsty Pakistanis alive? Well then I suggest we all test drive Hummers tomorrow to do our part. Seems more productive than dumping millions of dollars there through the UN doesn't it?

The Guardian article goes on to talk about using the new findings to help manage Pakistani water systems. What it doesn't do is explain how this is evidence for global warming, or how these growing glaciers fit in with the alarmism over other shrinking glaciers. Are we about to go back to the 70s and have everyone shouting "global cooling" again?

More of the same at the Beeb.

Hurricane Season Disclaimer: My earlier comments on hurricanes weren't meant to say we won't get some nasty storms, there's one brewing now, but everyone had to downgrade their predictions and the facts are the facts, it's been a below average season. Even if it had been the worst yet, it still doesn't make a case for global warming. Also, keep in mind that the destruction of New Orleans wasn't a result of a huge hurricane, it was the result of design and construction flaws in levees that the Army Corps of Engineers said should hold, especially with the minor category 1 to 2 conditions that hit the city, and never warned of a break.

Others:
Flashpoint, Southern Appeal, Slapstick Politics, Deep Keel, Don Surber, Point Five, Mickey's Electrified Blogging Machine, Never Yet Melted, Blogofascists, Environmental Legal Blogs

***UPDATE - GLOBAL COOLING ON THE WAY...AGAIN***
Let me start by saying that I don't know if I believe this because all the alarmists shouted this in the 70s. But now they shout global warming, so it's great to see scientists totally flip it on them and predict another mini-ice age. Anything that mocks the preposterous "global warming" theory is fine in my book, and this prediction, coupled with all the actual evidence (not the cherry picked and spun crap the media feeds us) is yet another reason to unbelieve this crap.

I know a lot of you will have trouble looking at the piles of actual evidence, because we've been brainwashed to believe this stuff, but it's time you opened your eyes. Don't expect the "science community" to join you, because at this point they need to keep the faith or lose the funding. If this cooling pans out, the pendulum will swing without any acknowledgement of the deliberate lying and misleading, and suddenly the alarmism will be over global cooling. The UN will still promise to be our savior, but hopefully enough Americans will have started to see through their agenda by then.

On with the UPI story

MOSCOW, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- A Russian scientist predicts a period of global cooling in coming decades, followed by a warmer interval.

Khabibullo Abdusamatov expects a repeat of the period known as the Little Ice Age. During the 16th century, the Baltic Sea froze so hard that hotels were built on the ice for people crossing the sea in coaches.

The Little Ice Age is believed to have contributed to the end of the Norse colony in Greenland, which was founded during an interval of much warmer weather.

Abdusamatov and his colleagues at the Russian Academy of Sciences astronomical observatory said the prediction is based on measurement of solar emissions, Novosti reported. They expect the cooling to begin within a few years and to reach its peak between 2055 and 2060.

"The Kyoto initiatives to save the planet from the greenhouse effect should be put off until better times," he said. "The global temperature maximum has been reached on Earth, and Earth's global temperature will decline to a climatic minimum even without the Kyoto protocol."

Don't be surprised, if/when cooling takes place, the "science community" tries to say that this is a result of "global warming". No matter what happens in the weather/climate they always come up with some way to say "global warming caused this", and that will be no different with global cooling. Remember that I said this, because if/when global cooling takes place you will undoubtedly see all the warming alarmists maintain that they knew this all along and it's still all our fault, fossil fuels, greenhouse gases, etc. etc. Count on it. In fact you can get the feeling just from this MosNews article about this same prediction.