"Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other
part of the world and, if the present rate continues, 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 (WWF, 2005).”(IPCC AR4 WG2
Ch10, p. 493).”
To the runup to Copenhagen Climate meet, in
order to get China and other countries in the India sub-continent on-board to
signing a global climate treaty, the West unleashed their Trojan horses - their
partner NGOs and environmental organizations to launch a grossly intellectually
corrupt campaign.
This centred around the scare that Himalayan
glaciers are receding and in the long run as the ice diminishes, glacial
runoffs in summer and river flows will also go down, leading to severe water
shortages in the region using the IPCC report to buttress their case. The IPCC
later withdrew this prediction.
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Glaciergate exposed IPCC as relying upon a
second hand, non-peer reviewed source which turned out to be unreliable, and
failed to identify this source. As a result, the IPCC has predicted the
likely loss of most or all of Himalaya’s glaciers by 2035 with apparently no
peer-reviewed scientific studies to justify such a prediction and at least one
scientific study (Kotlyakov) saying that such a disappearance is too fast by a
factor of ten!
It also not only punctured the credibility of
both the IPCC and its high profile Chairperson, Rajendra Pachuari but also
those of the global warming movement in the country, particularly these NGOs
who over- hyped this issue. Lest we forget, a summary of what exactly is
glacier gate is provided as a box item below.
In trying to deliver simplified messages;
NGOs often pretended to know more than they do lending themselves to charges of
climate scaremongering. A snapshot of some of the NGO’s recycled scare can be
found as a box item below.
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