"...The idea that the Himalaya could lose its glaciers by 2035—glaciers which feed rivers across South and East Asia—is a dramatic and apocalyptic one. After the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said such an outcome was very likely in the assessment of the state of climate science that it made in 2007, onlookers (including this newspaper) repeated the claim with alarm. In fact, there is no reason to believe it to be true. This is good news (within limits) for Indian farmers—and bad news for the IPCC..."
January 24, 2010
Economist Magazine Cites IPCC for Glaciers Error
Kudos to The Economist for exposing a glaring misstatement in the pronouncements of the IPCC.
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I bookmarked an article on this topic which appears in Times Online today titled "UN climate panel blunders again over Himalayan glaciers". Extremely interesting.
The basic counter-argument from environmentalists seems to be that it's not fair to take individual instances of fraud like this and say the entire theory's wrong. But the cases of bogus information are piling up. How long before more serious scientists start to jump ship on this bogus threat to humanity?
Science must eventually come to grips with the reality that it has perpetrated a massive lie and completely failed to play it's proper role in assisting humanity by providing usable information.
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