Secretary General of National Association of Geographers, India (NAGI) has come ahead in defence of R K Pachauri of UN’s Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and said that the controversy about the glaciers is unnecessary and unwarranted. “IPCC is working for a larger cause of climate change and glaciers are just a small part of it. This controversy could be avoided”, Dr. R B Singh, Secretary General of NAGI told fachcha.com. On the admission of error of complete meltdown of glaciers like Gangotri he said that the exact prediction about the timing is not possible and matter of the fact in this regard is that IPCC rely on secondary source.

“It must be remembered that there are chances of human errors also in the findings. This is the reason that some get meltdown speed of 130 meters per year of a glacier while other gets 12 meters. Some find that there is no meltdown in western part of Himalaya. Moreover, there are some other factors also workin it like research tools, methodologies, available infrastructure and others. But it does not mean that for this a larger cause should be ignored due to undue pressure. And, one thing you must remember that efforts bring positive changes in environment and climate”, he said.

You can just compare Delhi’s present environment with 15 years’ old environment. It does not mean that the prediction, plans and researches were done 15 years ago about Delhi’s future were wrong. In fact, efforts have changed the situation, adds R B Singh.