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Over the past three years, the Dutch journalist Bernice Notenboom has mounted expeditions through Siberia, across Greenland and to the North and South Poles to report on the effects of Climate Change. Her most recent expedition was to another critically threatened region: the Mt. Everest region of Nepal.

Looking behind the recent furore surrounding the science of climate change, Himalaya Alert searches out the views of local Sherpa communities and records the concrete physical changes actually occurring at high altitude. This combined with the adventure and drama of the expedition itself opens up these issues to a broad general audience. [More...]

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In the last few months a heated international debate has emerged that appears to challenge the reliability of the science of Climate Change. Soon after the embarrassing debacle of Copenhagen, five glaring errors were discovered in one paragraph of the world’s most authoritative scientific account on global warming — the 2007 Nobel Prize-winning report by the UN affiliated Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or IPCC. The mistakes appear in a subsection that suggests glaciers in the Himalayas could melt away by the year 2035 — hundreds of years earlier than the data actually indicates. The year 2350 apparently was transposed as 2035.

This embarrassing blunder was made in one paragraph of a 3,000 page report. It clearly shows that the IPCC's review processes need to be improved. What it doesn’t do however, is change the strong evidence that many glaciers around the world, including in the Himalayas, are rapidly melting in response to rising temperatures. [More...]