Last week i was taken aback by the news of the Himalayan glaciers being wiped out by 2035. Probably for the first time, United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — a panel of 2,500 of the best climate scientists in the world — accepted that a huge goof-up happened in its assessment report on climate change and withdrew its assertion that the Himalayan glaciers ran the risk of being wiped out by 2035.
The body admitted that proper procedures were not followed while reaching the conclusion which created a massive scare , particularly in India. New Delhi was forced on to the back foot in climate debates right up to the Copenhagen summit.
If we dig a bit more into this, the report is said to have been borrowed from a 1996 Russian study by V M Kotlyakov on the glacier which predicted the deadline by 2350, while the IPCC made it 2035, perhaps due to a some typological error i suppose, but which in effect brought the deadline closer by over 300 years!
Now the topping on this cake came from the Indian government. The IPCC team, led by TERI chief R K Pachauri, brushed aside these objections and didn’t even care to double-check its facts, even though the conclusion meant the end of the Himalayan glaciers in the next 25 years.
There's a small question i would like to ask - Did we learn anything from it? What if the report was true. Do we have the might to take on Mother nature? There's Global Warming, Tsunami, Extreme Temperature variations.... just put your hand on your heart and ask one small question - Did i do my part?
This is our home, our planet and we have to save it, together.
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