Earlier this month, the Indian government reacted to the revelations about the baseless nature of the glacier claim by announcing plans to establish what amounts to its own “Indian IPCC” to assess the impact of global warming. India’s environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, declared: “There is a fine line between climate science and climate evangelism.
而在这一冰川融化观点被揭露为毫无依据之后，印度政府的反应则是在本月初宣布计划建立本国自己的“政府间气候变化专门委员会”来评估全球变暖的影响。印度环境部部长拉姆·拉梅什说：“在气候科学和气候传教之间是有清晰的区别的，而我本人站在气候科学这一边。”