Environment IPCC officials admit mistake over melting Himalayan glaciers

[The Helper]

The UN's climate science body has admitted that a claim made in its 2007 report - that Himalayan glaciers could melt away by 2035 - was unfounded.

The admission today followed a New Scientist article last week that revealed the source of the claim made in the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was not peer-reviewed scientific literature – but a media interview with a scientist conducted in 1999. Several senior scientists have now said the claim was unrealistic and that the large Himalayan glaciers could not melt in a few decades.

In a statement (pdf), the IPCC said the paragraph "refers to poorly substantiated estimates of rate of recession and date for the disappearance of Himalayan glaciers. In drafting the paragraph in question, the clear and well-established standards of evidence, required by the IPCC procedures, were not applied properly."

IPCC officials admit mistake over melting Himalayan glaciers

Senior members of the UN's climate science body admit a claim that Himalayan glaciers could melt away by 2035 was unfounded

www.theguardian.com

 

[Varine]

Huh... well that's just amazing. Who knew?

 

[Tru_Power22]

See, I knew people were freaking out about nothing.

Still cold in Canada though.

 

[Ninja_sheep]

I just hate how some people argue all climate change is crap because they made a wrong estimate.
Those climate researchers kept making wrong estimates all the time. Sometimes they were too high, sometimes too low. BUT THAT'S LOGICAL. That's why they keep collecting data and keep doing research.

Nothing against climate-change-deniers in general, just don't argue like that.

 

[Varine]

So you're saying the mountains will melt in 2036? Dude ALL of their estimates are insanely high, those climate researchers aren't making estimates they're lying.

 

[Whitesock]

Climate researchers have no idea what's truely going on at all, warming or cooling, imo.

 

[Varine]

Climate researchers have no idea what's truely going on at all, warming or cooling, imo.

I went outside for a smoke just now. Pretty f***ing cold.

 

[Whitesock]

I went outside for a smoke just now. Pretty f***ing cold.

Hell, at least you have factual evidence.

 

[Varine]

Hell, at least you have factual evidence.

There was ice on the ground and everything.

 

[Aqua Dragon]

When I originally read the title, I thought that the IPCC officials had melted the glaciers themselves and then admitted it was a mistake.

 

[Varine]

When I originally read the title, I thought that the IPCC officials had melted the glaciers themselves and then admitted it was a mistake.

I wouldn't put it past them. I can see it now:

'IPCC project to show affects of global warming, melts Antarctica; spokesman Al Gore admits it to be mistake and "... a very bad idea...". In other news, recently rebuilt New Orleans again under water, blame put on Bush for not ensuring better levies after catastrophic Katrina.'