Himalayan Glacier ‘Error’ was Purposeful

From the arrogant body of intellectual elite who claim that the "science is settled" comes a startling admission that the erroneous claim concerning the Himalayan Glacier was put into the 2007 Nobel Prize Winning IPCC report to advance a political agenda (full article): 

The scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 last night admitted it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders.

Dr Murari Lal also said he was well aware the statement, in the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), did not rest on peer-reviewed scientific research.

In an interview with The Mail on Sunday, Dr Lal, the co-ordinating lead author of the report’s chapter on Asia, said: ‘It related to several countries in this region and their water sources. We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action.

‘It had importance for the region, so we thought we should put it in.’

And here we see a belief driven presentation of the evidence based upon desired outcome rather than substantiated fact, which is opposition to the IPCC's governing standards: 

According to the IPCC’s statement of principles, its role is ‘to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis, scientific, technical and socio-economic information – IPCC reports should be neutral with respect to policy’. 

To what extent this type of action is present in the remainder of the report is unknown.  However, the IPCC's credibility has certainly taken a serious hit.