A recent report had revealed that the UN's climate science body's 2007 claims, that the most of the Himalayan glaciers would melt by the time 2035 rolls in, were highly inappropriate and lacked proper research, and now the body has admitted that the theory was indeed "unfounded".

The 2007 report that was put forward by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said an article in New Scientist last week, was not "peer-reviewed scientific literature", but a telephonic media interview with an Indian scientist that was conducted in 1999.

Various senior and renowned scientists have now stepped forward to say that the claims were always baseless as the grand Himalayan glaciers cannot just all melt within a few decades.

The IPPC, in an official statement, admitted that the claim "refers to poorly substantiated estimates of rate of recession and date for the disappearance of Himalayan glaciers. In drafting the paragraph in question, the clear and well-established standards of evidence, required by the IPCC procedures, were not applied properly. The IPCC regrets the poor application of well-established IPCC procedures in this instance".

There have, however, still not been confirmations on how the agency and the authorities plan to ensure that such blunders are not repeated and there is always a quality maintained as far as the level of performance goes.