Sentences with phrase «assertion about the glaciers»
There is nothing in the Working Group I report that supports the Working Group II claims about the disappearance of Himalayan glaciers by 2035; or to support the other assertion about the glaciers declining from 500,000 to 100,000 km2 by the year 2035.
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Given all the oversimplified assertions over the years about Himalayan glaciers in a warming global climate, it's great to see a committee assembled by the National Academy of Sciences weigh in on the question with some data - based findings in a new report, «Himalayan Glaciers: Climate Change, Water Resources, and Water Securityglaciers in a warming global climate, it's great to see a committee assembled by the National Academy of Sciences weigh in on the question with some data - based findings in a new report, «Himalayan Glaciers: Climate Change, Water Resources, and Water SecurityGlaciers: Climate Change, Water Resources, and Water Security.»
The source document, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), has been under harsh scrutiny over the past weeks for a number of blunders, including the Climategate scandal, bogus claims about Himalayan glacier melt, false assertions The Netherlands are drowning, deceptive hysteria over conditions in the Amazon, exaggerations of vanishing polar ice caps, and fraudulent cover - up of Chinese temperature data.
Professor Murari Lal, who oversaw the chapter on glaciers in the IPCC report, said he would recommend that the claim about glaciers be dropped: «If Hasnain says officially that he never asserted this, or that it is a wrong presumption, than I will recommend that the assertion about Himalayan glaciers be removed from future IPCC assessments.»
Several independent glacier experts who have followed the Kilimanjaro research said the new paper and Dr. Thompson's earlier assertions about melting were probably both right to some extent.
«Lost amid the news coverage of Copenhagen and Climategate was the assertion that one of the more attention - grabbing statements [about glaciers in the Himalayas] of the IPCC AR4 was flat - out wrong» - Houston Chronicle containing other links: