IPCC: Could they be wrong?

IPCC: Could they be wrong?

A couple recent stories are casting some doubts on the proclamations from the IPCC on climate change:

Himalayan glaciers melting deadline ‘a mistake’

J Graham Cogley, a professor at Ontario Trent University, says he believes the UN authors got the date from an earlier report wrong by more than 300 years.

He is astonished they “misread 2350 as 2035“. The authors deny the claims.

But Professor Cogley has found a 1996 document by a leading hydrologist, VM Kotlyakov, that mentions 2350 as the year by which there will be massive and precipitate melting of glaciers.

Mr Cogley says it is astonishing that none of the 10 authors of the 2007 IPCC report could spot the error and “misread 2350 as 2035″.

When asked how this “error” could have happened, RK Pachauri, the Indian scientist who heads the IPCC, said: “I don’t have anything to add on glaciers.“

Incidentally, none of these documents [relied upon by the IPCC] have been reviewed by peer professionals, which is what the IPCC is mandated to be doing.

Dutch: Gore Wrong on Snows of Kilimanjaro

Professor Sinninghe Damste’s research… shows that the icecap of Kilimanjaro was not the result of cold air but of large amounts of precipitation which fell at the beginning of the Holocene period, about 11,000 years ago.

The melting and freezing of moisture on top of Kilimanjaro appears to be part of  “a natural process of dry and wet periods.” The present melting is not the result of “environmental damage caused by man.”

DOSR [Dutch Organization of Scientific Research] calls Al Gore’s iconic use of the melting cap of Kilimanjaro “unfortunate” — since it now seems to be mainly the result of “natural climate variations.”

The journal Nature published the highly technical article by Professor Sinninghe Damste’s team.