Errors about Himalayan glacier melt in report Five glaring
errors were discovered in one paragraph of the world's most
authoritative report on global warming. The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Five glaring errors were discovered in one
paragraph of the world's most authoritative report on global
warming, forcing the Nobel Prize-winning panel of climate
scientists that wrote it to apologize and promise to be more
careful. The errors are in a 2007 report by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a
U.N.-affiliated body. All the mistakes appear in a subsection
that suggests glaciers in the Himalayas could melt away by 2035,
hundreds of years earlier than the data indicate. The year 2350
apparently was transposed as 2035. The climate panel and the
scientist who publicized the errors said they are not
significant in comparison to the whole report, nor were they
intentional. They said the errors do not negate the fact that
worldwide, glaciers are melting faster than ever. But the
mistakes open the doo