CLAIMS that Himalayan glaciers could melt entirely by 2035 were poorly researched and should have faced greater scrutiny before appearing in the United Nations benchmark study on climate change, the world's top climate officials have conceded.
After a week of criticism over the validity of the 2035 claim, the UN's top climate group - the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - conceded the estimate was not backed by the standards of evidence the group required.
The claim was included in the panel's Nobel Prize-winning report in 2007 on the impact of climate change, despite the fact that its origins were an article in New Scientist magazine in 1999.
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