In the IPCC report of 2007, it was said that the glaciers in the Himalayas would be all melted by 2035. Yet it has now been revealed that this was never true. The Indian Government is now saying that there is no sign of any abnormal retreat and that the IPCC is alarmist. The path of the story is long and convoluted but the IPCC never checked its accuracy, it was never peer reviewed and the original author even said it was speculation. Further, the scientist who uncovered the error is Canadian Professor Graham Cogley of Trent University who is an IPCC author and not what would be called a skeptic. Another IPCC scientist had pointed out this error in 2006. Austrian Glaciologist Georg Kaiser notified his IPCC colleagues of the “huge” Himalayan mistake: “This number is not just a little bit wrong, it is as wrong as can be wrong…. It’s so wrong that it is not even worth discussing”. But of course his comments were ignored.
The IPCC is of course denying that the mistake is significant – what else would they say?
Here we have another example of falsified data. It’s supposed to be “scientific” and “peer reviewed”. The science is supposed to be “settled”. Sounds like politics and not science to me.
Source: UK Sunday Times
Tags: IPCC