UN climate body to review Himalayan glacier forecast
The head of the UN’s top body on climate change said Monday the panel would investigate claims its doomsday prediction for the disappearance of Himalayan glaciers might be mistaken.
In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that glaciers in the Himalayas were receding faster than in any other part of the world and could “disappear altogether by 2035 if not sooner”.

At the weekend, Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper reported that the 2035 claim was taken from an interview given by an Indian glaciologist to New Scientist magazine in 1999.
The claim — which was of questionable scientific value and may not have been backed up by research, according to the paper — was used by campaign group WWF before making its way into the IPCC’s research in 2007.

“We will take a view of this,” IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri said in comments broadcast on the CNN-IBN network.
“We are studying the new evidence,” the Hindustan Times newspaper quoted Pachauri as saying on Monday when asked to comment on the report.
The Sunday Times said the IPCC was likely to retract the figure, which would be a humiliation and a further boost for climate sceptics after a scandal last month dubbed “climategate.”
The role of the IPCC is to provide a consensus of credible scientific evidence on climate change that can be used as a basis for international policymaking.

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Could the UNIPCC look any lamer?