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The admission by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that it grossly overstated the rate at which Himalayan glaciers were receding has hurt the credibility of the institution considerably. It is all very well for the IPCC to defend itself by saying that this was just one page in a report of over 3,000 pages.

Publication Date: 
28/01/2010
Herald (Panjim) [2]
Tags:
Himalaya [3], Glaciers [4], Climate Change [5], Climate Science [6], IPCC [7], Climate Impacts [8], Glacial Melt [9]
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