Pachauri won't quit over glacier blunder

Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), on Saturday said he would not quit over the IPCC blunder of saying that Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035.

Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), on Saturday said he would not quit over the IPCC blunder of saying that Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035.

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While admitting the mistake once again at a press conference in New Delhi, Pachauri said it did not take away from the report's overall conclusion that glaciers in the Himalayas were receding.