Topic: India Ditches UN Climate Change Group

[sam]

http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/05/2044229/India-Ditches-UN-Climate-Change-Group

The move is a severe blow to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) following the revelation parts of its 3000 page 2007 report on climate science was not subjected to peer review. A primary claim of the report was the Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035, but the claim was not repeated in any peer-reviewed studies and rebuffed by scientists. India's environment minister Jairam Ramesh announced that the Indian government will established a separate National Institute of Himalayan Glaciology to monitor climate change in the region. 'There is a fine line between climate science and climate evangelism,' Ramesh said. 'I am for climate science.'

They don't believe the data, or just don't care about the possible consequences?

[Clive]

India has a vested interest not to believe in it.

[Simon]

It's all a bit political for me. 

[sam]

indeed.

If I had the cash I'd setup my own independent lab to prove that global warming exists... oh wait