Himalayan Blunder

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had grossly exaggerated the rate at which Himalayan glaciers are melting, striking a blow to the credibility of climate change science. In 2007 report, the IPCC had claimed that if current warming trends continued, the glaciers would be gone by 2035. It now transpires that the estimate was based on a 10-year-old interview with one climate scientist, glaciologist Syed Hasnain, and that there is no actual scientific data to back the claim. Interestingly, Syed Hasnain said that he was never consulted by the IPCC. More interestingly, he now works with TERI -- the same institute of which IPCC head R K Pachauri is. The Indian government had questioned the finding last year and come out with its own report doubting the glacier melt at the pace the IPCC had predicted. At that time, everybody including snubbed the MoeF report. Now, the table has turned. IPCC has already appologised for the mistake.. Strange is the world of global warming and their experts.