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Reiner Grundmann found a somewhat surprising revelation:

The Mail on Sunday has the following story:

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.’

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245636/Glacier-scientists-says-knew-data-verified.html#ixzz0dYFZIfdo

No reason for Schadenfreude. I think this is encouraging, finally scientists come clean. I would hope we see more of this in the process of reforming the advisory system for climate change. If individual scientists want to make statements that ‘oversell’ the state of knowledge, they are free to do so. And they need to be ready to take the criticism. They should not be allowed to hide behind the facade of the ‘objective’ and ‘policy neutral’ IPCC.

[From Admission that IPCC report was deliberately dramatised]