UN climate body 'exposed' again

In the latest article that appeared in The Sunday Telegraph, London, it is alleged that the Nobel prize winning UN climate change panel’s claims of ice disappearing from mountain tops is based on student dissertation and magazine article.

Earlier, the same paper exposed how the Himalayan glacier meltdown by 2035 predictions were based on faulty reports and magazine interview.

Officials were forced earlier this month to retract inaccurate claims in the IPCC's report about the melting of Himalayan glaciers following The Telegraph report and subsequent admission of the panel of its mistake.

In its most recent report, the paper said, it stated that observed reductions in mountain ice in the Andes, Alps and Africa was being caused by global warming, citing two papers as the source of the information.

“However, it can be revealed that one of the sources quoted was a feature article published in a popular magazine for climbers which was based on anecdotal evidence from mountaineers about the changes they were witnessing on the mountainsides around them,” the report said.

It said the other source is a dissertation written by a geography student, studying for the equivalent of a master's degree, at the University of Berne in Switzerland that quoted interviews with mountain guides in the Alps.

Earlier on Jan 23 R K Pachauri, the man in the eye of a storm over the wrong predictions of a Himalayan glacier meltdown by 2035 by the IPCC, said he would not resign as the head of the UN body on climate change owing to the “regrettable human error”.

“I have no intensions to resign,” Pachauri told a press conference in New Delhi saying he has been elected by the support of various countries to the UN body, which won Nobel Prize for its works.

“I have a task to complete. I have to complete the fifth assessment report (on climate change). We have a very robust fourth assessment report,” he said, adding that the error on the Himalayan glacier predictions no way undermines the works of IPCC at large.

Pachauri is slammed by the UK media for allegedly gaining financially from his positions, a charge he denied strongly.