January 19, 2010

More on the data skeptics - hoax perpetuated

As a data geek, this makes me upset...that this is all being overplayed (in my opinion). But I guess Fox News has to have something to cover since Haiti is getting old.

U.N. Panel’s Glacier Warning Is Criticized as Exaggerated

“The Himalayan glaciers will not disappear by 2035 — that is an overstatement,” said Dr. Bodo Bookhagen, an assistant professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara who studies the effect of climate change at high altitudes. “That number somehow got incorporated into the I.P.C.C. report, and that probably shouldn’t have happened.”

Still, he added: “It is very clear that there is glacier retreat and that it has devastating impact.”