The State of Environment Report 2009, a report put out by the Union government that is meant to be an up-to-date official view on environmental issues says that “...Himalayan Glaciers could disappear in the next 50 years” It may have gone on an offensive against a controversial report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Indian Glaciers disappearing by 2035, but till August, the ministry of environment and forests...

Like an avalanche, the groundswell of scepticism regarding the melting of Himalayan Glaciers threatens to demolish conventional wisdom to the contrary. To be sure, the deadline of 2035 by which these Glaciers would be severely threatened has now been proved wrong. It could be a typographical error, as the Russian scientist whose paper has been used mentioned 2305. Or it could have been licence on the part of some scientists,...

UN climate panel chairman Rajendra Pachauri today said the panel’s erroneous forecast that the Himalayan Glaciers would melt by 2035 had not hurt its credibility and that he had no intention of resigning. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had earlier this week conceded that its fourth assessment report had without substantiation predicted that most of the Himalayan Glaciers would disappear by 2035 because of climate change. “It was...

Professor Syed Iqbal Hasnain, whose research on the melting of the Himalayan Glaciers, led to a major controversy, on Wednesday blamed “certain prejudicial forces” for mounting a campaign against his “diligent” research. Speaking out for the first time since the London-based The Times quoted him as saying that his findings on the Himalayan Glaciers melting by 2035 in the impact of climate change were “speculative,” Professor Hasnain said “vested interests...

Indian geologists who had two months ago accused a UN climate science agency of misleading the world with alarmist predictions about Himalayan Glaciers have now said they stand vindicated. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has launched an exercise to find out how its fourth assessment report issued nearly three years ago contained a prediction that most of the Himalayan Glaciers would disappear by 2035. “We’re looking into it. We’re...