Climategate

You may or may not have heard of "Climategate" -- a series of revelations about how scientific publications and government agencies have been trying to shore up claims of global warming by hiding or misrepresenting data, by not publishing scientific research that doesn't support global warming claims, and by "losing" data so that numbers can't be verified.

Two items that I remember hearing about when the original claims were made have been shown to be untrue:

• The Himalayan glaciers will not disappear by 2035. These claims were made by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) in 2005 but the IPCC now admits they were not backed up by sufficient data.
  

• The IPCC falsely claimed that 40% of the Amazon rainforests would be wiped out if global warming continues - these claims were actually based on a study of logging and burning in forests, and had nothing to do with rainfall amounts or rising global temperatures*.

*Mean global surface temperatures have not risen since 1998, and, by some measures, have dropped since 2001.

If you would like to get up to speed on this issue, here is a good opinion piece that has lots of sources listed at the end.