(CNSNews.com) – After a groundless claim about vanishing Himalayan glaciers found its way into a key United Nations climate report, the chairman of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) faces new calls to resign.
 
But despite the growing criticism, IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri says he has no intention of leaving.  "I intend to make even more fabulous contributions to the science of global warming in upcoming decades...I can't leave now."
 
The government of India – the country that arguably would have been most seriously affected if the glacier predictions proved to be correct – indicated at the weekend it would pay more attention to its own scientists in the future and less to the controversy-plagued U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
 
Indian environment minister Jairam Ramesh said a new Indian agency comprising 250 scientists would provide the country with the climate data it needs.
 
Last November, Ramesh’s ministry released a comprehensive report reviewing satellite and ground measurements which concluded that there was a lack of evidence to back up alarming claims about the rate of Himalayan glacier melt. The claim had been included in a major 2007 IPCC report, which referred to the strong chance of the glaciers “disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner.”
 
IPCC’s Chairman, Rajendra Pachauri, who is also an Indian, dismissed the ministry’s findings as “voodoo science.”

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