More on the lines of my previous post. A beautiful study (appeared in Feb. 2010) of how the glaciers error made its way into the IPCC report. Note particularly the full cast of characters involved.
“Dozens of articles and analyses of [the IPCC’s mistake on glaciers], whether dashed-off blog posts or New York Timescoverage, exhibit a curious consistency. Not a single article or analysis appears to include all relevant issues without introducing at least one substantial error. It’s as though the original documents contained a curse which has spread to infect every commentator and reporter…
“…The whole IPCC paragraph – reproduced two fundamental errors introduced in …[the] Indian environmental magazineDown to Earth.”