Reports that global warming is changing the climbing route on Everest reawakened memories of Climategate. In late 2009, at the height of the so-called controversy, it emerged that two "papers" on the disappearance of mountain ice cited by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in their 2007 report were nothing of the sort. One was a dissertation by a Swiss geography student and mountain guide. The other was an article in a US climbing magazine by mountaineer Mark Bowen.
The sceptic community was gleeful. What could a bunch of self-absorbed adrenaline junkies contribute to climate science? Climbing conditions on Everest might be changing, but what does that prove?
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