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[url="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Himalayan-glaciers-won-t-melt-by-2035-says-new-finding/H1-Article1-498686.aspx"]Himalayan glaciers won’t melt by 2035, says new finding[/url]

A United Nations body is expected to retract its oft-repeated prediction that most of the Himalayan glaciers will melt by 2035.

Two years ago, the UN’s Nobel prize-winning body — Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) headed by R.K. Pachauri — had warned of the melting of glaciers, which would have far-reaching consequences for India. Now, evidence has emerged to suggest that the IPCC may have been mistaken.

“We are studying the new evidence,” Pachauri.

The IPCC’s claim was based on an article in the New Statesman, London, which relied on an estimate made by India’s leading glaciologist and Padamshree recipient Syed Iqbal Hasnain.

Fred Pearce, who wrote the article, has told Sunday Times, London, that Hasnain, who made the claim in 1999, had said he would provide a report explaining his conclusion.

“I obtained a copy, and it did not have what Hasnain had said,” Pearce told the newspaper. “It does not mention 2035 as a date by which Himalayan glaciers will melt.”

Hasnain had told Pearce his claim was “speculative”.