Climate Chief Hid False Glacier Claims At Summit
The Times Online reported that the chairman of the leading climate change watchdog was indeed informed that claims made before the Copenhagen summit about melting Himalayan glaciers were false.
Pachauri was told of false glacier claims before Copenhagen
The chairman of the leading climate change watchdog, Pachauri, was informed that claims about melting Himalayan glaciers were false before the Copenhagen summit, The Times has learnt.
Glacial profiling: Are glaciers on thin ice?
Glaciers around the world are melting faster than usual, threatening to eliminate some of our largest and oldest freshwater sources. Should we be worried? While the majority of glaciers are fading fast, some are stable and a few are even growing.
Patagonia mountains are growing
Mountains along the southernmost swath of South America are growing taller at a record rate, say researchers, who attribute the growth to the accelerating loss of glaciers there.
UK’s top scientist urges care in presenting results of climate change
• Be frank on degree of uncertainty, but as such it is no excuse for inaction• John Beddington responds to scepticism after melting glaciers mistake A failure by some scientists to be candid on the uncertainty of predicting the rate of climate change is to blame for fuelling scepticism about such predictions, according the government’s [...]
Glaciers melting at historic rates
Latest figures show the world’s glaciers are continuing to melt so fast that many will disappear by the middle of this centuryGlaciers across the globe are continuing to melt so fast that many will disappear by the middle of this century, the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) said today.The announcement of the latest annual results [...]
Glaciergate was a blunder, but it’s the sceptics who dissemble
Inaccurate claims predicting Himalayan meltdown have handed gainsayers a big victory. But nothing material has changedIt was a strange moment that linked the fates of some of the world’s poorest farmers to the interests of an increasingly powerful set of western lobby groups. Last week, UN climate researchers admitted they had grossly overestimated the chances [...]
UN climate panel chief will not quit over errors
The head of a panel of United Nations climate scientists said Saturday he would not resign despite a recent admission that a panel report warning Himalayan glaciers could be gone by 2035 was hundreds of years off.
IPCC admits mistake over melting glaciers
Senior members of the UN’s climate science body admit a claim that Himalayan glaciers could melt away by 2035 was unfoundedThe UN’s climate science body has admitted that a claim made in its 2007 report – that Himalayan glaciers could melt away by 2035 – was unfounded.The admission today followed a New Scientist article last [...]
UN climate report riddled with errors on glaciers
Five glaring errors were discovered in one paragraph of the world’s most authoritative report on global warming, forcing the Nobel Prize-winning panel of climate scientists who wrote it to apologize and promise to be more careful.