Oops...

UN chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC), Rajendra Pachauri has admitted to a 'minor' slip up in the Nobel prize winning report on the Himalayan glaciers. The original report read that the Himalayan glaciers would very likely be gone by the year 2035. That's pretty soon, right? Wrong. Apparently there was a mistake, and the real date for the glaciers disappearance is in 2350, only about three hundred and thirty years off. No biggie. Though Pachauri firmly states that the receding glaciers is still an issue, this raises much controversy in the greater international discussion of global warming. How the international community will interpenetrate this slip up will be interesting. There is a good chance that this will even further give support to those who do not support the theory of global warming all together. This one mistake has the potential to set back hundreds of hours of dialogue on the issue.

by megan smith