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The Environment / How much damage has IPCC suffered regarding Himalayan glacial recession error?
« on: 29/01/2010 03:00:15 »
The erroneous IPCC discussion of the glaciers was the end result of something like half a dozen intermediate publications. Apparently each one of them simply incorporated something or other from a previous publication that lead back to nothing of consequence in the matter at all. I will see if I can recover the list, and will post it for you if I can.
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I was WAY wrong about the number of intermediate publications. The actual cascade is just as humorous though. The information originated as a misquote of a single individual scientist interviewed for an article that then appeared in an obscure (to me) magazine a decade ago. Or some such....
1) "... it now appears that the estimate about Himalayan glacial melt was based on a decade-old interview of one climate scientist in a science magazine, The New Scientist..."
2) "hard scientific evidence to support that figure is lacking."
3) "... Dr. Syed Hasnain, a glacier specialist with the government of the Indian state of Sikkim and currently a fellow at the TERI research institute in Delhi, said in an e-mail message that he was “misquoted” about the 2035 estimate in The New Scientist article.
4) "... He has more recently said that his research suggests that only small glaciers could disappear entirely."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/science/earth/19climate.html?scp=1&sq=himalayan&st=cse
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I was WAY wrong about the number of intermediate publications. The actual cascade is just as humorous though. The information originated as a misquote of a single individual scientist interviewed for an article that then appeared in an obscure (to me) magazine a decade ago. Or some such....
1) "... it now appears that the estimate about Himalayan glacial melt was based on a decade-old interview of one climate scientist in a science magazine, The New Scientist..."
2) "hard scientific evidence to support that figure is lacking."
3) "... Dr. Syed Hasnain, a glacier specialist with the government of the Indian state of Sikkim and currently a fellow at the TERI research institute in Delhi, said in an e-mail message that he was “misquoted” about the 2035 estimate in The New Scientist article.
4) "... He has more recently said that his research suggests that only small glaciers could disappear entirely."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/science/earth/19climate.html?scp=1&sq=himalayan&st=cse