The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has admitted including a misleading claim in a major 2007 report, and issued an apology for the error. The statement, which claimed that the glaciers in the Himalayas were likely to melt within thirty years, was not based on scientific data. The IPCC, a United Nations panel, published its fourth Assessment Report in 2007, which laid out the panel's consensus on the current state of climate change worldwide. This was the most recent in a series of major summary reports, the first dating from 1990, which discussed the causes, effects, and possible ways to address climate change. The second section of the report, known as "Working Group II", dealt with the impacts of climate change on the physical environment; one paragraph of this section stated that%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high. News reports have suggested that the claim was picked up by the IPCC when it was quoted in a 2005 report by the World Wildlife Fund, which may itself have drawn on a 1999 article in the popular science magazine New Scientist.%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% The IPCC have admitted that the original claim was "poorly substantiated" and that "well-established standards of evidence were not applied properly" in the preparation of this section of the report. "The chair, vice-chairs, and co-chairs of the IPCC regrets the poor application of IPCC procedures", read a statement released by the panel. However, they have emphasised that they stand by their overall conclusion that melting of the glaciers is a concern to the region, which is home to over one billion people, and that the rate of melting is projected to accelerate over the coming century. Glaciers and glacial lakes in the Bhutan-Himalaya The consensus among glaciologists is that it would take hundreds of years to melt the Himalayan glaciers, and that the current rates of melting are not yet well-understood. Michael Zemp, of the World Glacier Monitoring Service told CNN that  " the  Himalayas are among those regions with the fewest available data", and noted that as such there was it was not possible to say that Himalayan glaciers were receding faster than elsewhere in the world. Indeed, according to The Times (UK), there is thought to be some evidence of glaciers growing in the neighboring Karakoram mountain range.  The IPCC had recently come under fire during the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, when selectively leaked e-mails, hacked from the University of East Anglia, reportedly showed that some scientists were attempting to suppress findings by other climatologists that did not agree with their own findings . This news is in contrast with other global warming findings, such as computer modelling showing that the Pine Island Glacier and Thwaites Glacier, once described as a major "tipping point" for the entire West Antartic Ice Sheet in the embayment of the Amudsen Sea, has reached their own tipping points for eventual collapse, likely to lead to a sea level rise of up to 52 cm over the next century, per the New Scientist .
Part of a major 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) , which claimed that the glaciers in the Himalayas were likely to melt within thirty years, has been found to have not been based on scientific data. The IPCC, a United Nations panel, %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% admitted that the original claim was "poorly substantiated" and that "well-established standards of evidence were not applied properly" in the preparation of this section of the report. "The chair, vice-chairs, and co-chairs of the IPCC regrets the poor application of IPCC procedures", read a statement released by the panel. News reports have suggested that the claim originated in a 1999 article in the popular science magazine New Scientist, and was picked up by the IPCC when it was quoted in a 2005 report by the World Wildlife Fund. Glaciers and glacial lakes in the Bhutan-Himalaya According to The Times (UK), most glaciologists believe it would take hundreds of years to melt the Himalayan glaciers, with some doubting that it will ever happen. There is evidence of glaciers growing in the neighboring Karakoram mountain range. Michael Zemp, of the World Glacier Monitoring Service told CNN that , " There are simply no observations available to make these sorts of statements." "The other thing is that the report says the glaciers are receding faster than anywhere else in the world. We simply do not have the glacier change measurements. The Himalayas are among those regions with the fewest available data", Zemp added. Nevertheless, the IPCC maintains that the melting of the glaciers is a concern to the region, which is home to over one billion people. It stands by its overall conclusion that "mass losses from glaciers and reductions in snow cover over recent decades are projected to accelerate throughout the 21st century, reducing water availability, hydropower potential, and changing seasonality of flows in regions supplied by meltwater from major mountain ranges." The IPCC had recently come under fire during the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, when selectively leaked e-mails, hacked from the University of East Anglia, reportedly showed that some scientists were attempting to suppress findings by other climatologists that did not agree with their own findings .
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