India to Have Own Panel on Climate Change

It is interesting to note that India will soon be forming its own panel of leading scientists parallel to IPCC as it does not want to rely completely on IPCC. Union Environmental Minister Mr. Jairam Ramesh has indicated that India is not satisfied with the work done by IPCC in terms of climate change, especially the dates of melting Himalayan Glaciars..

"There is a fine line between climate science and climate evangelism. I am all for climate science but not for climate evangelism. I think people misused the IPCC report," Ramesh told a news channel here. Stressing that the IPCC's weakness was that it didn't do original research and derives assessments from published literature, the minister announced a climate change panel for India. He said that IPCC has "had goof-ups on the glaciers, on the Amazon, on the snow peaks." However, he added that the IPCC with a network of 200 scientists worldwide was "a responsible body"

Couple of weeks before, Indian Environmental Ministry has conducted its own study into Himalayan glaciers and found out that IPCC claims are not accurate.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com...

Yeah, interesting. Wonder what kind of conclusion they will get.

BTW, I remember the chairman of IPCC is an Indian ....

Britain already has one, the Hadley Centre. Oh, and the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia