Claims by the world’s leading climate scientists that most of the Himalayan glaciers will vanish within 25 years have been exposed as total nonsense.

The alarming warning was issued two years ago in a highly influential report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). At the time the IPCC claimed that the report contained the latest and most detailed evidence yet of the risks of man-made climate change to the planet.

However the experts behind the claim have now admitted that their warning was not actually based on hard science and was in fact based on a telephone chat with another scientist who has since admitted that it was pure speculation.

This new piece of news is a further blow to the IPCC following the ‘Climategate’ story of last year, showing climate-change scientists at the University of East Anglia had manipulated data to produce better results to show man-made climate change.

Glacier experts are surprised that this latest revelation has taken so long to surface. Himalayan glaciers are hundreds of feet thick and it would take more than 25 years for them to melt fully – in fact the quickest melting Himalayan glacier is currently melting at around 2-3 feet per year and therefore is strongly predicted to still be around in 25 years time.

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