Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 01/17/2010 9:30:09 AM PST by Steelfish
January 17, 2010 World Misled Over Himalayan Glacier Meltdown
A WARNING that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of scientific blunders by the United Nations body that issued it.
Two years ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a benchmark report that was claimed to incorporate the latest and most detailed research into the impact of global warming. A central claim was the world's glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035.
In the past few days the scientists behind the warning have admitted that it was based on a news story in the New Scientist, a popular science journal, published eight years before the IPCC's 2007 report.
It has also emerged that the New Scientist report was itself based on a short telephone interview with Syed Hasnain, a little-known Indian scientist then based at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi.
Hasnain has since admitted that the claim was "speculation" and was not supported by any formal research. If confirmed it would be one of the most serious failures yet seen in climate research. The IPCC was set up precisely to ensure that world leaders had the best possible scientific advice on climate change.
Professor Murari Lal, who oversaw the chapter on glaciers in the IPCC report, said he would recommend that the claim about glaciers be dropped: "If Hasnain says officially that he never asserted this, or that it is a wrong presumption, than I will recommend that the assertion about Himalayan glaciers be removed from future IPCC
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So business as usual at that useless POS UN.
WOW, this is unexpected. Thanks for the post.
lol, so that’s where Al is hiding?
Mislead....as in lied to.
UN/IPCC are CROOKS trying to terrify the world into paying their “carbon tax.”
Based on a hoax.
The game of Telephone Tag is now scientific peer review.
I’m thinking about making some groundhog day greeting cards for my liberal friends and relatives.
Wouldn’t that be “based on a series of UNscientific errors?”
“Scientific blunders” implies that the error in the IPCC report was the result of sloppiness or incompetence.
Although I have no doubt that IPCC scientists are sloppy and incompetent, I believe the “error” resulted from a conscious, conspiratorial effort to defraud. That is, it is a criminal offense.
leftists always manage to delegitimize everything they come in contact with, everything supposedly set up for the public benefit. Our scientific community, our media, our education system, our community organizations, our politicians (OURS!), OUR GOVERNMENT.......and soon coming our healthcare system.
There’s nothing left to trust. They’ve f#$%ed up everything.
That Climate Change may be a reality (its been a documented reality since the Pleistocene, 1.5 million years ago to 11,000 BP) but is it man made?
Man made climate change is advocated by Gore and his ilk who will profit from the legislation and the scientists who get great grants to continue this myth.
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BWAAAA! Just sent your pic to all my AGW believin’ friends! Gonna be my new desktop! Thanks!
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