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The IPPC / Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and their science? How obvious does this have to get ? Good article here

The head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Thursday refused to answer any question on its unsubstantiated claim that Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035, which it subsequently admitted was a goof-up, even as four leading academics questioned the warning anew.

The IPCC has already retracted the warning that it had carried in its 2007 report, but the global group of over 2,500 scientists is still facing a severe crisis of credibility due to the blunder.

It has also led to a number of allegations of financial impropriety against IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri and the The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), the think tank he also heads.   Read the article linked above, for the numerous allegations of financial impropriety. Here is a tidbit-Pachauri had established an "astounding worldwide portfolio of business interests with bodies which have been investing billions of dollars in organisations dependent on the IPCC's policy recommendations".

As an embattled Pachauri refused requests from the global media to answer the charges, or to react when asked if he was going to resign from his chairman’s post.

Four academics who wrote to Science — J Graham Cogley, a professor at Ontario Trent University; Jeffrey S. Kargel, University of Arizona, Tucson; G. Kaser, Institut for Geographie, University of Innsbruck, Austria and C. J. van der Veen, University of Kansas, Lawrence — said the IPCC warning “conflicts with knowledge of glacier climate relationships, and is wrong”.

 “Nevertheless it has captured the global imagination and has been repeated in good faith often, including recently by the IPCC’s chairman (R.K. Pachauri),” they pointed out.

Captured the global imagination, like a fairy tale captures the imagination?
My question, was it repeated in good faith? Or was it repeated to reinforce a mythology, a story?

One source, Working Group II (WG-II) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reproduces several errors.” “The Working Group writes that ‘glaciers in the Himalayas are receding faster than in any other part of the world’ and that ‘the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate. Its total area will likely shrink from the present 500,000 to 100,000 km2 by the year 2035.’

“Another source advances a no less mistaken conjecture, not discussed in the news story, that Himalayan glaciers are responding to the climate of as long as 15,000 years ago,” the four academics said.
“The IPCC fourth assessment report of 2007, particularly of the physical science basis for the changes, is mostly accurate, but the first WG-II sentence derives from a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report, which cites a news story about an unpublished study that neither compares Himalayan glaciers with other rates of recession nor estimates a date for disappearance of Himalayan glaciers,” they said.