IPCC Admits Misrepresenting Himalayan Glaciers

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has admitted, after receiving tremendous criticism for falsely claiming a scientific consensus that Himalayan glaciers are likely to melt by 2035, that its prediction was “poorly substantiated.”

Evidence this week emerged that IPCC had based its assertion on a flippant conversation with a single scientist that was taken out of context.

“The chair, vice-chair and co-chairs of the IPCC regret the poor application of IPCC procedures in this instance,” said IPCC in a January 20 statement.

In November 2009 the India Ministry of Environment and Forests published a comprehensive, 160-page scientific study concluding there is a lack of evidence that global warming is causing a retreat of Himalayan glaciers. IPCC Chair Raj Pachauri immediately went on the attack, calling the comprehensive study, performed by scientists with decades of experience studying Himalayan glaciers, “voodoo science.” As it turns out, the Pachauri and IPCC were the ones engaging in voodoo science.

The Himalayan glacier scandal follows a series of other IPCC scandals. In what has become known as “Climategate,” leaked emails show gatekeepers of IPCC temperature information have doctored, misrepresented, and hidden from the public climate data that undermines their assertion that humans are creating a global warming crisis. Also, Russian scientists earlier this month reported that IPCC has been grossly misrepresenting Russian temperature data to report far more warming than actually has occurred.