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.”