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U.N. climate chiefs apologize for glacier error
CNN, 20 January 2010
The U.N.'s leading panel on climate change has apologized for misleading data published in a 2007 report that warned Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035.
In a statement released Wednesday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said estimates relating to the rate of recession of the Himalayan glaciers in its Fourth Assessment Report were "poorly substantiated" adding that "well-established standards of evidence were not applied properly."
Despite the admission, the IPCC reiterated its concern about the dangers melting glaciers present in a region that is home to more than one-sixth of the world's population.
"Widespread mass losses from glaciers and reductions in snow cover over recent decades are projected to accelerate throughout the 21st century, reducing water availability, hydropower potential, and changing seasonality of flows in regions supplied by meltwater from major mountain ranges (e.g. Hindu-Kush, Himalaya, Andes)..."
"The chair, vice-chairs, and co-chairs of the IPCC," the statement continued, "regrets the poor application of IPCC procedures..."
The apology follows a growing storm of controversy which initially forced the IPCC to concede that data relating to the Himalayan glacier melt included in the 2007 report was not backed up by sufficient scientific data.
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On the other hand,
you must admit that the idea of the Himalays melting caught our minds! That is has little to do with reality is another matter, but it is difficult to make everybody happy at the same time! With time and sufficient funding there will be other spectacular, scary vistas presented to us as an ultimatum to pay up or else!
The glacier story which served us so well for such a long time (it was one of Pachauri's favourites as I know from first hand experience) is in the same category as Al Gore's warning that Greenland is breaking up! That is also an entertaining idea, especially as Greenland is ice covered land and not floating ice! The likelihood of Greenland breaking up is in my view a good deal smaller than the USA breaking up, but then again Greenland is governed by people of integrity!
Any noticeable changes of sea level lately? A sea rise might sink Pasific states which normally help the US back Israel's crimes in the UN. In the worst of cases I am sure that the Israelis would be able to protect them building walls around them, all paid of course by the American tax payers. They have quite some impressive experience in foreign financed wall building!
Where there is a crisis there is an opportunity, an observation the Chinese made long before the Khazars converted to Zionism!