INDIA: India's environment minister slams the Nobel winning group IPCC claim on glaciers

Record ID: 1372168

  • Title: INDIA: India's environment minister slams the Nobel winning group IPCC claim on glaciers
  • Date: 22nd January 2010
  • Summary: NEW DELHI, INDIA (JANUARY 18, 2010) (ANI) A NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS AUDIENCE VARIOUS OF CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) JAIRAM RAMESH, INDIA'S FEDERAL ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTS MINISTER, SAYING: "There is no doubt that most of our Himalayan glaciers are in a poor condition. We need to pay more attention to our glaciers. But to say that in another 20 to 25 years all our glaciers of more than 10000 years would melt down is alarmist and misplaced. As I said earlier, this is unscientific. The study of glaciers especially the Himalayan glacier was made on unscientific evidence." FILE (ANI) SNOW CLAD MOUNTAIN RANGES WATER FLOWING FROM MELTING GLACIERS WATER DRIPPING FROM MELTING GLACIERS MORE OF MELTING GLACIERS
  • Embargoed: 6th February 2010 17:59
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  • Location: India
  • Country: India
  • Topics: International Relations,Environment / Natural World
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  • Story Text: Jairam Ramesh, India's federal Environment and Forests Minister slams the claim of the Nobel Prize winning group, United Nations Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) headed by Rajendra Pachauri that most of the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035.
    India's federal Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh termed the claims of the Nobel prize winning group, United Nations Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which said that most of the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035, as alarmist by contending it the report was not based on any scientific evidence.

    He said this while speaking to media persons at New Delhi on Monday (January 18).

    As per the IPCC headed by noted environmentalist Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, the world's glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035.

    However, new evidence has emerged to suggest that the IPCC may have been mistaken.

    "There is no doubt that most of our Himalayan glaciers are in a poor condition. We need to pay more attention to our glaciers. But to say that in another 20 to 25 years all our glaciers of more than 10000 years would melt down is alarmist and misplaced. As I said earlier, this is unscientific. The study of glaciers especially the Himalayan glacier was made on unscientific evidence," noted Jairam Ramesh.

    The IPCC's claim that glaciers would melt by 2035 was derived from a 1999 scientific journal, which relied on an estimate made by a leading Indian glaciologist Syed Iqbal Hasnain and it was not verified by any members of the climate body.

    RGDS,

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