IPCC: “Our bad! Global warming not about to melt Himalayas. | GlobalWarming.org

You didn’t need a Cray computer to figure that this was nonsense, that temperatures would have to more or less instantly soar to incredible heights and stay there for this to happen. (As it turns out, 18 degrees Centigrade.) But people wrote it, read it, and believed it.

Pachauri mum on Himalayan blunder- Politics/Nation-News-The Economic Times

Despite two successive controversies, the IPCC chief chose not to clarify referring only to the statement issued by the panel on Wednesday. “I do not want to speak on the issue (controversy) right now,” Dr Pachauri said.

[Will this $350 million expenditure really prevent bad weather?]: Solar Water Heaters Get a Boost in California - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

California regulators on Thursday approved a $350 million program to subsidize the installation of solar water heaters to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.