Renewed studies of Himalayan glacier melting in response to the errors involved in the 2007 IPCC conclusion that they would be gone by 2035 show substantial melting, 22 percent over the past 30 years.
This trend is a huge threat to one of the worlds' most vulnerable ecosystems and one-sixth of the world's current population. The ecosystem provides food and energy for 1.3 billion people living in downstream river basins.