hi el, i respect highly your opinion as well and while most of what the ipcc and wiki pedia tries to say may have some validity, i take everything with a grain of salt, did you read far enough down to catch this part of it? also the last part of my post more or less says that without co2 EVERY LIVING THING on earth dies. that my friend is unequivacle. No one considers either that ancient times were hot, very hot, and one little mini ice age 10,000 years ago, froze the entire planet for couple a hundred years and is solely responsible for killing all living things of the time. except maybe ALGAE, tough little microbe it is.
"HIMALAYAN ICE GLACIERS TO MELT"
"The IPCC's 4th report has been criticized by Professor J Graham Cogley for using three reports, by the World Wildlife Fund, UNESCO, and the magazine New Scientist, none of which were peer-reviewed, to make the case that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by the year 2035. When the original source was tracked down he found that they had misstated both the year and the effect - the original source, by a M. Kuhn, states that the year was actually 2350, and that the Himalayan glaciers would be intact at that time. IPCC lead author Murari Lal claims there was no mistake about the glacial melt. [91][92]
The IPCC's assessment of melting Himalayan glaciers has also been criticized as being "horribly wrong" by to John Shroder a Himalayan glacier specialist at the University of Nebraska. According to Shroder, the IPCC jumped to conclusions based on insufficient data. Donald Alford, a hydrologist, said that his water study for the World Bank demonstrated that the Ganges River only gets 3-4% of its water from glacial sources - casting doubt on the claim that the river would dry up since its primary source of water comes from rainfall. [93] Dr. Michael Zemp [94], from the World Glacier Monitoring Service, has stated that the IPCC has caused "major confusion" on the subject, that, under IPCC rules they should not have published their statements, and that he knows of no scientific references that would have confirmed their claims."