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IPCC Chief In Hot Waters – Battle Against Global Warming Too Suffers
The worst part of the story is that all that is giving a lot of ammunition to global warming skeptics. If the nations were working at cross-purposes at Copenhagen, splitting hairs, oblivious of the creeping danger, the fight itself could be slackened now.
First it was the hacking of a server used by the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, England. Thousands of e-mails and other documents released by the hackers seemed to show that leading climate scientists were selecting data to support the case for global warming, withholding scientific information that might prove contrary, interfering with the peer-review process of scientific papers, deleting information to prevent disclosure under the United Kingdom's Freedom of Information Act, and so on.
The whole thing was sought to be dismissed as a sordid conspiracy by the ‘nay-sayers’ who were willfully distorting some frank exchanges among scientists. Many were uneasy, but swallowed the explanation in the larger interests of the crusade against global warming.
Then came the catastrophe claims over the Himalayan glaciers in a benchmark IPCC report of 2007. It turned out that predictions of the melting away of the glaciers by 2035 were based on a story in the New Scientist, a popular science journal – which, in turn, was sparked by a short telephone interview with Mr. Syed Hasnain, a little-known Indian scientist then based at Jawaharlal Nehru University in
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