UN climate claim in Nobel Prize winning report was just for political pressure-scientist

"The scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 last night admitted it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders.

• Dr Murari Lal also said he was well aware the statement, in the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),

• did not rest on peer-reviewed scientific research.

In an interview with The Mail on Sunday, Dr Lal, the co-ordinating lead author of the report’s chapter on Asia, said: ‘It related to several countries in this region and their water sources. We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action....

• But an authoritative report published last November by the Indian government said:

‘Himalayan glaciers have

• not in any way exhibited, especially in recent years, an abnormal annual retreat.’"...

UK Daily Mail, "Glacier Scientist: I knew data hadn't been verified," 1/24/10, via WUWT via Tom Nelson

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