There’s been a controversy over Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It seems that when Pachauri was made aware of the fact that a highly alarmist claim about Himalayan glaciers melting due to global warming was false, he stonewalled rather than admit the truth. And now the head of Greenpeace UK is calling for Pachauri’s resignation:

A journalist working for Science had told Dr Pachauri several times late last year that glaciologists had refuted the IPCC claim that Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035. Dr Pachauri refused to address the problem, saying: “I don’t have anything to add on glaciers.” He suggested that the error would not be corrected until 2013 or 2014, when the IPCC next reported.