What’s up with the Himalayan Glaciers? Growing or Shrinking?

This is a perfect example of how alarmism works its magic. Satellites and visual observations have shown that the Himalayan glaciers aren’t retreating but actually growing to their original size. This is from December 2012:

With high-altitude mountains in Himachal Pradesh experiencing up to 100 cm fresh snowfall in November month after 10 years, the abundance of snow on mountains has rejuvenated nearly one thousand Himalayan glaciers and has ensured uninterrupted supply of water for drinking, irrigation and hydel projects. While scanty snowfall and rising temperature in the last decade had sparked the possibilities of fast shrinking of glaciers, good spells of snowfall in last three years have changed the trend with glaciers almost growing to their original size.

–Suresh Sharma, The Times of India, December 3, 2012

Jump a few months to April 2013:

An editorial in the Dawn on Tuesday said that away from the din of politics and the immediacy of militant strife, a disaster of enormous proportions is silently evolving in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan mountains up north, one that could in time impact the length and breadth of Pakistan.

2013-04-09 10:01:27

Source: http://climatechangedispatch.com/11138-what-s-up-with-the-himalayan-glaciers-growing-or-shrinking.html