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LONDON: The embattled chief of the UN climate change panel has admitted that a mistake in a landmark 2007 report has damaged the body’s credibility.
But Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, refused to apologise for the erroneous claim that global warming could melt Himalayan glaciers by 2035.
The admission came as former British chief scientist David King backed away from his sensational claim that a foreign intelligence agency or wealthy US lobbyists were behind the hacking and release of controversial emails between climate scientists.
Sir David admitted he possessed no inside information about the leaks of embarrassing emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, and had merely been speculating on material already in the public domain. His remarks to a journalist had been a “side-issue”, he said.
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Source: theaustralian.com.au