Glacier Alarm 'Regrettable error': UN Climate Head

The head of the UN's climate science panel said Saturday a doomsday prediction about the fate of Himalayan glaciers was "a regrettable error" but that he would not resign over the Blunder.

Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said the mistake arose from "established procedures not being followed diligently."

"I am not resigning from my post. There has been an error but we will Ensure greater consistency in every (future) report," he said.

"I am not brushing anything under the carpet," he added.

Pachauri was referring to a forecast of Which featured in a benchmark report in 2007 that global warming is the probability of glaciers in the Himalayas "disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high."

The IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report was a 938-page opus Whose warning that climate change was on the march spurred politicians around the World to Vow action.

Earlier in the week, the panel apologised for "the poor application of well-established IPCC procedures." Read More.

Glacier Alarm 'Regrettable error': UN Climate Head