By Chuck Ring (GadaboutBlogalot ©2009 – 2010)

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All that melting is what?  Well, is it true or false, or do we really know?  The melting of the Himalaya glaciers has been said by some scientists to be occurring at a rapid rate.  Something on the order of  being so severe that the glaciers will melt to nothing by 2035.

A new report from Online London Times (Times) published January 17th, which can be accessed here, indicates that the supposition or whatever it might be called is:

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.

The report indicates that the original work was less than rigidly supported by scientific study:

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.

Mr. Hasnain, according to the Times, now says that the “melting” theory is not supported by formal research and was just speculation.  Unsupported speculation would be something that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) would be expected to question, or at the least be somewhat skeptical of such “findings.”

A scientist involved with IPCC on a high level has said that if the information is not supported then it would be removed from the report. The Times story continues with a few other revelations, but in my opinion, some attention should be paid toward disciplining the individual scientists and the IPCC for allowing information to be placed for consumption, when for the most part, it has what amounts to, just so many empty calories.

If the IPCC expects to be believed, it would seem necessary that anything alluding to concept or theory that they publish, or otherwise support, be above reproach as it applies to the vetting of the study or conclusion.

As indicated above, the complete story can be read by clicking the link to the Times article.

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