Syed Hasnain, RK Pachauri and the mystery of the non-disappearing glaciers

As my esteemed colleague Geoffrey Lean reported yesterday, the IPCC has egg all over its face thanks to its ludicrously wrong claim that the Himalayan glaciers will have disappeared by 2035, when of course what it really meant was "Er 2350, probably, though we haven't really got a clue. We got the story from New Scientist, which heard it in a phone call with a bloke called Syed Hasnain, and we didn't bother to check because it suited our scaremongering cause just dandily…"

What our Geoffrey...