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UN climate change panel based claims on student dissertation and magazine article
The
United Nations' expert panel on climate change based claims about ice
disappearing from the world's mountain tops on a student's dissertation
and an article in a mountaineering magazine.
By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent and Rebecca Lefort
Published: 9:00PM GMT 30 Jan 2010
The revelation will cause fresh embarrassment for the The Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which had to issue a humiliating apology
earlier this month over inaccurate statements about global warming.
The IPCC's remit is to provide an authoritative assessment of scientific
evidence on climate change.
In its most recent report, it stated that observed reductions in mountain ice
in the Andes, Alps and Africa was being caused by global warming, citing two
papers as the source of the information.
However, it can be revealed that one of the sources quoted was a feature
article published in a popular magazine for climbers which was based on
anecdotal evidence from mountaineers about the changes they were witnessing
on the mountainsides around them.
The other was a dissertation written by a geography student, studying for the
equivalent of a master's degree, at the University of Berne in Switzerland
that quoted interviews with mountain guides in the Alps.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7111525/UN-climate-change-panel-based-claims-on-student-dissertation-and-magazine-article.html