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Offline bijou

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World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown
« on: January 17, 2010, 10:41:31 AM »
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A WARNING that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of scientific blunders by the United Nations body that issued it.

Two years ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a benchmark report that was claimed to incorporate the latest and most detailed research into the impact of global warming. A central claim was the world's glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035.

In the past few days the scientists behind the warning have admitted that it was based on a news story in the New Scientist, a popular science journal, published eight years before the IPCC's 2007 report.

It has also emerged that the New Scientist report was itself based on a short telephone interview with Syed Hasnain, a little-known Indian scientist then based at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi.


Hasnain has since admitted that the claim was "speculation" and was not supported by any formal research. If confirmed it would be one of the most serious failures yet seen in climate research. The IPCC was set up precisely to ensure that world leaders had the best possible scientific advice on climate change. ...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6991177.ece
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Re: World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2010, 11:08:57 AM »
I'm shocked...and surprised.
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Re: World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2010, 11:15:55 AM »
Quote from: Mr Snuggle Bunny on January 17, 2010, 11:08:57 AM
I'm shocked...and surprised.

Yeah, I believe everything the UN puts out myself....and I know for a fact they wouldn't intentionally lie.......would they?
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Re: World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2010, 08:38:42 PM »
World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown
Jonathan Leake and Chris Hastings
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January 17, 2010
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Two years ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a benchmark report that was claimed to incorporate the latest and most detailed research into the impact of global warming. A central claim was the world's glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035.

In the past few days the scientists behind the warning have admitted that it was based on a news story in the New Scientist, a popular science journal, published eight years before the IPCC's 2007 report.

It has also emerged that the New Scientist report was itself based on a short telephone interview with Syed Hasnain, a little-known Indian scientist then based at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi.

Hasnain has since admitted that the claim was "speculation" and was not supported by any formal research. If confirmed it would be one of the most serious failures yet seen in climate research.
Another emotive AGW claim falls under scrutiny. :o Polar bears aren't going extinct? :o Antarctica's ice isn't melting away? :o The Arctic ice cap isn't melting away? :o Himalayan glaciers aren't melting away? :o Kilimanjaro's glacier's melting is part of a natural cycle? :o
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Re: World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2010, 09:52:54 PM »
And the hits just keep on coming.......

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Re: World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown
« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2010, 12:11:16 AM »
Hold on, we need this in English:

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It has also emerged that the New Scientist report was itself based on a short telephone interview with Syed Hasnain, a little-known Indian scientist then based at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi.

He never renewed his membership in the World Association for Sciency Type Eco Stuff elapsed.

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Hasnain has since admitted that the claim was "speculation" and was not supported by any formal research.

Made you loko!

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If confirmed it would be one of the most serious failures yet seen in climate research.

He once told me a joke about a priest, a minister and a rabbi and I thought it was pretty funny so I thought that counted as peer-reviewed.

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The IPCC was set up precisely to ensure that world leaders had the best possible scientific advice on climate change.

And by "best possible" we mean "we own stock."
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