IPCC Chief Won't Apologize For Himalayan Report
The head of the UN's climate change panel is refusing to apologize for a 2007 report paragraph that claimed global warming could melt Himalayan glaciers by 2035.
Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, did admit the mistake had damaged the body's credibility.
But Pachauri told the British newspaper The Guardian to "look at the larger picture, don't get blinded by this one mistake."
He continued: "The larger picture is solid, it's convincing and it's extremely important. How can we lose sight of what climate change is going to do to this planet?"
Climate change skeptics have renewed their attacks on the IPCC report, which collated the work of hundreds of scientists worldwide, since late November, when stolen e-mails appeared to show one team trying to skew the evidence for global warming.
Other scientists recently flagged the paragraph on Himalayan glaciers. But Pachauri is fighting a claim that other research on potential devastation from climate change was manipulated.
Source: The Guardian
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