Article Tags: Headline Story, Himalayan Glacier Data, Will Alexander
I was in the process of packing my bags for home when there was another explosion on the Internet. The IPCC’s claim that climate change will result in massive melting of the Himalayan glaciers is false. This was disclosed in the UK Sunday Times and rapidly spread to other newspapers and the Internet. The Australian carried a headline article yesterday (Monday) and a full page plus two other articles in this morning’s edition.
This claim is the centrepiece of the IPCC assessment reports as well as Al Gore’s document An inconvenient truth.
The IPCC has repeatedly maintained that its conclusions are based on peer-reviewed papers in recognized scientific journals. It has now been disclosed that this claim never passed through the peer-review process.
The following is my summary of the sequence of events derived from media reports of the past two days.
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