{"id":259826,"date":"2023-05-31T11:04:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T09:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=259826"},"modified":"2023-05-31T11:04:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T09:04:43","slug":"wrong-the-guardian-climate-change-isnt-causing-more-climbing-deaths-on-mount-everest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=259826","title":{"rendered":"Wrong, The Guardian, Climate Change Isn\u2019t Causing More Climbing Deaths on Mount Everest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From\u00a0ClimateRealism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Anthony Watts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An article in The Guardian<\/em> claims that climate change is killing people on Mount Everest. This is a false. Climate change is not highly localized nor does it occur in a single year. Evidence suggests other factors are behind the recent increase in deaths on Mount Everest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Guardian<\/em> article, titled \u201cClimate change to blame for up to 17 deaths on Mount Everest, experts say<\/a>,\u201d cites the opinion of the director of Nepal\u2019s tourism department, Yuba Raj Khatiwada as the source for their claim that deaths are increasing on Mount Everest due to climate change. The Guardian<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The figure was confirmed by Yuba Raj Khatiwada, the director of Nepal\u2019s tourism department. \u201cAltogether this year we lost 17 people on the mountain this season,\u201d he said. \u201cThe main cause is the changing in the weather. This season the weather conditions were not favourable, it was very variable. Climate change is having a big impact in the mountains.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Confirmation of something climate science related in the Himalayas (where Mount Everest is located) by the tourism director rather than a climate scientist? That\u2019s just as bad as the now retracted claim from 2009 that the glaciers of the Himalayas would be gone by 2035. Even the climate scientists had to apologize for that one. The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a group of scientists convened by the United Nations to warn governments around the world about the effects of climate change, was forced to apologize for claiming that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why? They used a report from the World Wildlife Foundation<\/a> (WWF) as the basis for the claim\u2014yet the WWF referenced not scientific studies, but reports and magazine stories as a \u201ctrusted source\u201d for their claims. Once that became known, the IPCC retracted its claim, <\/a>issuing an official statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seems like d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu all over again<\/a> with the latest report about Mount Everest and climate change. Ridiculous references aside, there is the unambiguous matter of time as it relates to climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Guardian\u2019s<\/em> inference is refuted by the evidence provided in Climate at a Glance: Weather vs. Climate<\/a>, specifically:<\/p>\n\n\n\n