Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 01/22/2010 5:59:11 AM PST by fight_truth_decay
The UN’s top climate change body has issued an unprecedented apology over its flawed prediction that Himalayan glaciers were likely to disappear by 2035.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said yesterday that the prediction in its landmark 2007 report was “poorly substantiated” and resulted from a lapse in standards. “In drafting the paragraph in question the clear and well-established standards of evidence, required by the IPCC procedures, were not applied properly,” the panel said. “The chair, vice-chair and co-chairs of the IPCC regret the poor application of IPCC procedures in this instance.”
The stunning admission is certain to embolden critics of the panel, already under fire over a separate scandal involving hacked e-mails last year.
The 2007 report, which won the panel the Nobel Peace Prize, said that the probability of Himalayan glaciers “disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high”. It caused shock in Asia, where about two billion people depend on meltwater from Himalayan glaciers for their fresh water supplies during the dry seasons.
It emerged last week that the prediction was based not on a consensus among climate change experts but on a media interview with a single Indian glaciologist in 1999. That scientist, Syed Hasnain, has now told The Times that he never made such a specific forecast in his interview with the New Scientist magazine.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
January 17, 2010
World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown
As you might remember, The Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 was shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.
Professor Hasnain, said that he would soon be presenting a report on the status of Himalayan glaciers, based on research works by Indian and international scientists published in different peer reviewed journals across the world hoping [the Hope word again] these studies will help to produce more incontrovertible evidence that the Himalayan glaciers are under threat. It seems they will do little to convince climate change sceptics, or repair the image of the IPCC.
The question has been asked whether this was "a mistake" or just a "direct lie".
Georg Kaser, a leading Austrian glaciologist who contributed to the 2007 report, described the glacier mistake as huge and said that he had warned colleagues about it months before publication.
Scam.
media interview
to Fred Pearce, of New Scientist
said journalist reported it in his own way.
Mr Pearce was not immediately available for comment.
A very interesting way to say "WE CHEATED....AND LIED".
This doesn't sound tooooo bad until you realize this was a group producing a pre-conceived result
These folks belong in jail because they made some big bucks on this.
Wow if that isn't a perversion of the scientific method, I don't know what is.
Whenever I read in the newspaper the words "Scientists say...." I know that what is going to follow is most likely nothing but Bull$#!+.
Modern science has become nothing more than a political weapon for socialist busybodies.
Time to demand a complete review (in the open) of all the computer code and underLYING data that has been used to propagate this scam. Emphasis on LYING. Nothing withheld, any scientist or lay person to have access. This is the scientific process - not determining who is qualified to peer review your work. This is a CRIMINAL conspiracy. These guys need to receive severe criminal penalties. Their universities need to be forced to repay the research money they received, as they did not police the criminal actions of these people, and probably sanctioned them.
Give the Nobel Prize back, kkthx.
2305 came thru as 2035. Maybe they should have added a colon to get 20:35 - that would really scare people...
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