Glaciergate

English Etymology From en glacier -gate. Proper noun A 2010 controversy resulting from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change mistakenly claiming in a 2007 report that the glaciers of the Himalayas would melt by 2035. from 2010 Christopher Booker Christopher Booker Pachauri: the real story behind the Glaciergate scandal https://web.archive.org/web/20230714095011/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/7062667/Pachauri-the-real-story-behind-the-Glaciergate-scandal.html 23 January 2010 But no one, it seems, is more embarrassed by "Glaciergate" than Dr Pachauri himself, whose expanding worldwide business connections since he became chairman of the IPCC have recently been the subject of articles in these pages by Dr North and myself. Robin McKie Robin McKie Glaciergate was a blunder, but it's the sceptics who dissemble https://web.archive.org/web/20221108163948/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/jan/24/climate-change-glaciergate-mckie 24 January 2010 And don't forget that this mistake was highlighted not by deniers but by scientists themselves. Glaciergate actually shows we can police ourselves, say researchers. Glaciergate part II: climate chief reheats Himalayas row https://web.archive.org/web/20220708042238/http://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/glaciergate-part-ii-climate-chief-reheats-himalayas-row-6273288.ht 7 December 2011 Asked if he had any regrets over "Glaciergate", he [Rajendra Pachauri] said: "Well, we obviously made an error which we have corrected, and it's there on the website of the IPCC. We did that as soon as it came to our attention." Michael McCarthy (journalist) Michael McCarthy Chris Mooney Chris Mooney (journalist) Climate change could shrink Mount Everest's glaciers by 70 percent, study finds https://web.archive.org/web/20221203071318/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/05/27/climate-change-could-shrink-glaciers-in-the-mount-everest-region-by-70-percent-study-finds/ 27 May 2015 In a 2007 report, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change alarmingly stated that the mountain glaciers of the Himalayan region could be gone by the year 2035. But the statement turned out to be in error, leading to an IPCC acknowledgement of inadequate vetting of the material and many criticisms of the climate science body — as well as the dubbing of the incident "Glaciergate." on