Claims by the world's leading climate scientists that most of the Himalayan glaciers will vanish within 25 years were last night exposed as SHITE.
The alarmist warning appeared two years ago in a highly influential report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The report said that glaciers in the Himalaya were 'receding faster than in any other part of the world'. But the experts behind the warning have now admitted their claim was not based on hard science - but a story that appeared in the "VIZ" magazine, on a page about the 'TWO FAT SLAGS' in the late 1990s.
That story was itself based on a telephone conversation with an Indian scientist who, was a Curry chef in the evenings at the BOMBAY TAJ MAHAL, (open Tue-Sun 5-11.30p.m., closed Mon-Chicken Jalfraizi a speciality, Wednesday's buffet night-all you can eat 5 Rupees, tel. Mumbai 235-9871), has since admitted it was little more than speculation. The revelation is a major blow to the credibility of the IPCC which was set up to provide political leaders with clear, independent advice on climate change and to predict Barbecue Summers and mild Winters.
As one, (that's me), has said before, it's time we got this climate shite sorted out once and for all so that everyone on the planet knows what the score is.
