text: Yet, no journalists ever bothered to follow up and ask Schellnhuber why he had peddled such an absurd prognosis back in 2009. In an interview with Spiegel on October 6, 2010, Schellnhuber acts like he had never made the ridiculous Himalayan 2035melting prediction. In the Spiegel interview (7:10 mark) he is quoted (highlighted in yellow):