Glacier-gate: Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water
Erroneous claims concerning melting Himalayan glaciers made in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2007 report have embarrassed the IPCC and prompted apologies from chairman Rajendra Pachauri. The Nobel-winning report stated that the glaciers could be gone by the year 2035 due to rising temperatures associated with anthropogenic global warming. The number apparently came from a WWF statement, which unintentionally misquoted an Indian scientist back in 1999. Misquotes and journalistic inaccuracy are not that strange, but the fact that the number was used in a recent, definitive scientific report and focused on as a particularly shocking number is obviously discrediting….
