The head of the UN’s climate change body has been forced to make a humiliating apology over claims the Himalayan glaciers could vanish within 25 years.
Last week it emerged there was no evidence for the warning from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
After a global outcry, Dr Rajendra Pachauri - chairman of the IPCC - has issued an unprecedented apology.
The alarmist claim appeared two years ago in an influential report. At the time the IPCC insisted the document contained the latest and most detailed evidence yet of the risks of man-made climate change.
Dr Pachauri even dismissed the report’s detractors for using ‘voodoo science’.
But in fact the claim was originally made by scientist Syed Hasnain, from Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, who has since admitted the comment was ‘pure speculation’.
Dr Pachauri said in a statement: ‘In drafting the paragraph in question, the clear and well-established standards of evidence, required by the IPCC procedures, were not applied properly.
‘The chair, vice-chairs, and co-chairs of the IPCC regret the poor application of well-established IPCC procedures in this instance.’
The apology is a major blow to the IPCC which was set up to provide political leaders with clear, independent advice on climate change.
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