UN climate body admits 'mistake' on Himalayan glaciers

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The vice-chairman of the UN's climate science panel has admitted it made a mistake in asserting that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) included the date in its 2007 assessment of climate impacts.

A number of scientists have recently disputed the 2035 figure, and Jean-Pascal van Ypersele told BBC News that it was an error and would be reviewed.

But he said it did not change the broad picture of man-made climate change.

The issue, which BBC News first reported on 05 December, has reverberated around climate websites in recent days.

It is so wrong that it is not even worth discussing
Georg Kaser, University of Innsbruck

Some commentators maintain that taken together with the contents of e-mails stolen last year from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, it undermines the credibility of climate science.

BBC News - UN climate body admits 'mistake' on Himalayan glaciers

[Mr X]

Dude. already covered in the climate change thread: http://www.CONSPIRACY.CO/forums/hoaxes-d...ght-out-2.html

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I really think we should be condensing subjects into single threads. There are far too many new threads every day. It is making it impossible to collate anything.