World misled over melting Himalayan glaciers
http://www.iceagenow.com/World_misled_over_melting_Himalayan_glaciers.htm
17 Jan 2010 - "A warning that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of scientific blunders by the United Nations body that issued it," says this article on TimesOnLine.
Were these really "blunders"? Or were they deliberate fraud?
Two years ago the IPCC claimed that "glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035."
The scientists behind the warning now admit that it was based on a news story in the New Scientist, which was itself based on a short telephone interview with Syed Hasnain, a little-known Indian scientist.
Hasnain has since admitted that the claim was "speculation" and "not supported by any formal research." (Italics added.)
"If confirmed it would be one of the most serious failures yet seen in climate research," the article continues.
Professor Murari Lal, who oversaw the chapter on glaciers in the IPCC report, said he would recommend that the claim about glaciers be dropped.
Merely dropped? No accountability?
I think the IPCC should be totally dismantled.
(Article does continue. Zim.)
Mad Poet Strikes Again.
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