Wednesday, 20 January 2010
06:25 PM
This is for fun. I was reading the article "UN climate report riddled with errors on glaciers", which reports on an IPCC report that has some errors in it. The controversy is mostly around one particular section of the report, a half page in a report that is 838 pages long[1], and which lists some (incorrect) numbers about how quickly glaciers are melting in the Himalayas.
Naturally, this has thrown gas onto the whole climate-change controversy, with skeptics in particular having a field day with the errors.
What I liked about the whole brouhaha, though, was the following. I bet you know why."It is a very shoddily written section," said Graham Cogley, a professor of geography and glaciers at Trent University in Peterborough, Canada, who brought the error to everyone's attention. "It wasn't copy-edited properly."
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