After ten years in the forefront of the public the general consensus leading into the COP 15 the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change was that climate change as a result of Global Warming was no longer a hypothetical belief but was now accepted scientific fact. It almost seems as if ten years of carefully documented sciences has been washed away in weeks as the failure of the Conference to solidify past accords has resulted in backlash of unsubstantiated reverse opinion.
Suddenly, it is politically popular to back away from creation of global legislation through the UN to establish baselines for greenhouse gas emissions. Even India whose own Nobel Prize winning scientist Doctor R.K. Pachauri heads the United Nations’ IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has opted to establish their own country’s regulatory body to monitor the effects of Global Warming.

This attitude and action was set in motion by Doctor Pachauri’s statement that the Himalayan Glaciers upon which most of India relies on for water supply would be gone by the year 2035. The contrary opinion is that the process of eventual meltdown will take another 300 years. Pachauri who has since recanted his statement as a simple error has now been likened to what is thought of as Climate Evangelism, spewing a unique brand of fire and brimstone.

It is far too easy to brand Climate Science as fiction. Doctor Pachauri certainly outstepped his bounds with his prediction. But the Himalaya’s are melting and whether they last 30 years more or 300 is not the issue. Everyone involved in climate concerns should place emphasis on Climate Science and present that science as sufficient statement for global concern. The evidence of an overall climate change crisis is more than sufficient to stand for itself and command attention by the way of sustainability changes.