The United Nations Backtracks: the Sky May Not be Falling After All | NewsReal Blog

The United Nations Backtracks: the Sky May Not be Falling After All | NewsReal Blog: "The United Nations (UN), once again, has egg on its face.

In 1999, a little known Indian scientist named Syed Hasnain engaged in “speculations” about the melting of the world’s glaciers. He wrote a piece in a popular Indian magazine where he described his musings on the possible effects of global warming. His central premise was that, unless something was done, man-made climate change would ultimately lead to the melting of most of the glaciers of the Himalayas.

By his own admission, Hasnain did not conduct any formal research, was not peer reviewed and was not published in any scientific journal.

Sometime after his article appeared, it came to the attention of an influential science journal called the New Scientist. In 2001, that publication conducted a telephone interview with Hasnain, and published its own article about Hasnain’s theory of the melting Himalayan glaciers."