The claim that Himalayan glaciers would be all gone by 2035 was not supported by the evidence at hand. The claim should not have made it into the IPCC report. Everyone, as far as I'm aware, agrees on that.
That being said, the Himalayan glaciers have been retreating for 5 decades (see the link I posted earlier) and there is evidence that the rate is increasing. So the original claim may not be supported well enough to make it into the IPCC report but it also isn't a spurious claim either. And the main point is that Robert's implication that the IPCC report is tarnished because of the inclusion of one statement that was erroneously included out of 3000 pages is a big crock of shit. Judah On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Dana <dana.tier...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I did not see that in the link suppkied. But supposing you are right and I > missed it, which is possible I gues, the nature of science is reluctance to > make categorical statements about causation. If you insist on them before > taking any action, then you eliminate among other things most of modern > medecine and astrophysics. > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Robert Munn <cfmuns...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> the actual published report, once it was peer reviewed, said that there was >> not enough statistical evidence to link the two things together. >> >> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Dana wrote: >> >> > >> > I hate to interrupt when you two are having such fun but all the Times >> > article actually says is that the citation for the claim is from an >> article >> > that isn't peer-reviewed, right? Not that there is evidence against it. >> > >> > >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:311085 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
