It wasn’t the first time IPCC had exaggerated climate change’s impact in a Summary. In 2010, an IPCC Summary falsely claimed climate change would result in the melting of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035. This was a serious case of alarmism given that 800 million people depend on the glaciers for irrigation and drinking water. Shortly after, four scientists published a letter in Science pointing out the error, with one of them calling it “extremely embarrassing and damaging,” adding, “These errors could have been avoided had the norms of scientific publication including peer review and
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