At least that is what glaciologist Syed Hasnain, who was quoted by the IPCC, has claimed.
It seems the Nobel prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a UN body, used journalistic writing to prove that the great Himalayan glaciers will vanish by 2035.
At least that is what glaciologist Syed Hasnain, who was quoted by the IPCC, has claimed.
“I have never said in any of my research papers that the Himalayan glaciers would vanish by 2035. I have not given that date,” Hasnain told DNA.
“In an interview to The New Scientist journal, I had said that glaciers were retreating and their mass would decline in the next 40 to 50 years because of greenhouse gases. The journalist gave it a date. Scientific research is different from journalistic writing and I have no control over a journalist who misquotes me.”
Hasnain was a professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University when he gave The New Scientist the interview in 1999. Ironically, he is currently a fellow at The Energy Research Institute (Teri), headed by RK Pachauri, who is also the chairman of the IPCC.
The controversy surrounding the IPCC broke out after The Sunday Times, London, reported that the panel’s claims were speculative and not based on scientific facts.
The controversial aspect is in the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report, published in 2007, which said that 9,500 Himalayan glaciers are likely to vanish because of rising temperatures by 2035.
But Hasnain insists his research paper was misquoted. “Many research papers on the Himalayan glaciers have been published after 1990 and I fail to understand why the IPCC chose to pick that interview only and not consult other research papers by me. I am not even aware of who all were involved in preparing the IPCC report,” he said.
Hasnain said it is unfair that he was being dragged into the controversy since the IPCC neither crosschecked with him about his research papers nor bothered to use his papers in its assessment report.
“They picked up (the melting of glaciers) report from (The New Scientist) article and used it without my knowledge.”
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