UN science report which stated Himalayan glaciers would melt within 25 years 'was a guess' | Mail Online

Claims by the world's leading climate scientists that most of the Himalayan glaciers will vanish within 25 years were tonight exposed as nonsense.

The alarmist warning appeared two years ago in a highly influential report by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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Glacier experts are astonished it has taken so long for the blunder to come to light.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: IPCC and Conflict of Interest: Anything Goes

As far as I have been able to discern, the IPCC has no policy governing conflict of interests. This is remarkable, given the importance of the IPCC to international climate policy as well as the importance that has been given in recent years to conflicts of interest in scientific advice. The question that needs to be put to the IPCC is: why should it be exempt from adhering to conflict of interest policies that are deemed appropriate in every other important area of scientific advice?