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The UN agency for climate change will withdraw a years-old claim that man-made climate change will destroy the Himalayan glaciers within 25 years after its highly unscientific method of reaching this conclusion got exposed this week. Instead of conducting actual science themselves, with open and transparent methods, the IPCC apparently just read the claim in an interview and decided to adopt it. Now the original reporter in the interview claims that not only did the IPCC simply lift the claim without any investigation, they didnt understand it correctly in the first place:
World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown - Times Online
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.
Two years ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a benchmark report that was claimed to incorporate the latest and most detailed research into the impact of global warming. A central claim was the world's glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035.
In the past few days the scientists behind the warning have admitted that it was based on a news story in the New Scientist, a popular science journal, published eight years before the IPCC's 2007 report.
It has also emerged that the New Scientist report was itself based on a short telephone interview with Syed Hasnain, a little-known Indian scientist then based at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi.
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Hasnain has since admitted that the claim was "speculation" and was not supported by any formal research. If confirmed it would be one of the most serious failures yet seen in climate research. The IPCC was set up precisely to ensure that world leaders had the best possible scientific advice on climate change.
World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown - Times Online
Now science is a self correcting endevour. When a mistake, or careless claim is recognized, other scientists jump on it. However, when drugged out radio jocks make whingding statements, or an ersazt wearther man lies on his web site, it never gets corrected.
As the years progress, we shall see how accurate this statement is.
U.N. panel re-examines Himalayan glacier thaw report - Yahoo! News
The IPCC's 2007 report said: "Glaciers in the Himalayas are receding faster than in any other part of the world and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate."
However, the report also said of the glaciers: "Its total area will likely shrink from the present 500,000 to 100,000 sq km (193,000 to 38,600 sq miles) by the year 2035."
Now science is a self correcting endevour. When a mistake, or careless claim is recognized, other scientists jump on it. However, when drugged out radio jocks make whingding statements, or an ersazt wearther man lies on his web site, it never gets corrected.
As the years progress, we shall see how accurate this statement is.
U.N. panel re-examines Himalayan glacier thaw report - Yahoo! News
The IPCC's 2007 report said: "Glaciers in the Himalayas are receding faster than in any other part of the world and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate."
However, the report also said of the glaciers: "Its total area will likely shrink from the present 500,000 to 100,000 sq km (193,000 to 38,600 sq miles) by the year 2035."
Round and round she goes....Ya pay yer money, ya take yer chances!How settled science gets that way
Round and round she goes....Ya pay yer money, ya take yer chances!How settled science gets that way
