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"We have a very clear idea of what is happening," the chairman of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) told the Guardian newspaper. "I don't know why the minister is supporting this unsubstantiated research. It is an extremely arrogant statement." Then again, when it comes to unsubstantiated research it's hard to beat the IPCC, whose 2007 report insisted that the glaciers... were very likely to nearly disappear by the year 2035... It turns out that this widely publicized prediction was taken from a 2005 report from the World Wildlife Fund, which based it on a comment by Indian glacier expert Syed Hasnain from 1999. Mr. Hasnian now says he was "misquoted." Even more interesting is that the IPCC was warned in 2006 by leading glaciologist Georg Kaser that the 2035 forecast was baseless. "This number is not just a little bit wrong, but far out of any order of magnitude," Mr. Kaser told the Agence France-Presse. "It is so wrong that it is not even worth discussing."

Well said, pissant. Thanks Ernest for the ping.

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[SunkenCiv]

• Dr Rajendra Pachauri dismissed calls for him to resign over the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change's retraction of a prediction that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035.

Then get the rope.

The problem is, that the IPCC exists at all. Thanks Ernest.