Monday, February 15, 2010
IPCC scientist dismisses furore over climate change report
Martin Parry, the scientist behind the IPCC report that falsely claimed the Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035, has dismissed the furore over the errors as "a clamour without substance".
Mr Parry, a climate expert at the Grantham Institute and Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College, London, said he was "perplexed" at the way the media has focused on what he called minor points.
Speaking for the first time about the errors, he defended the report as "robust and rigorous".
Mr Parry was co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) working group on impacts, which produced a 2007 report that included the Himalayan glaciers claim. Evidence suggests they will survive another 300 years.
The discovery of the mistake, and the way it was handled, has produced calls for IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri to resign.
It has also led to reports of further errors in the report, including that the IPCC wrongly stated that 55 per cent of the Netherlands is below sea level.
In an open letter, Mr Parry said: "What began with a single unfortunate error over Himalayan glaciers has become a clamour without substance."
Source: Telegraph
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"Mr Parry, a climate expert at the Grantham Institute and Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College, London, said he was "perplexed" at the way the media has focused on what he called minor points."
ReplyDeletePerplexed? These deliberate scare sections of the 2007 AR4 report show that this document was a document of propaganda, not science, as was claimed for 3 full years. The media gets it, Parry doesn't.