Article Tags: Headline Story, Himalayan Glacier Data
The head of the UN’s climate change body has been forced to make a humiliating apology over claims the Himalayan glaciers could vanish within 25 years.
Last week it emerged there was no evidence for the warning from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
After a global outcry, Dr Rajendra Pachauri – chairman of the IPCC – has issued an unprecedented apology.
The alarmist claim appeared two years ago in an influential report. At the time the IPCC insisted the document contained the latest and most detailed evidence yet of the risks of man-made climate change.
Dr Pachauri even dismissed the report’s detractors for using ‘voodoo science’.
Source: dailymail.co.uk