Rajendra Pachauri, head of the United Nations’ panel on global warming, knew that claims regarding Himalayan glaciers melting were false. That according to The Times of London.

Rajendra Pachauri was told that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment that the glaciers would disappear by 2035 was wrong, but he waited two months to correct it. He failed to act despite learning that the claim had been refuted by several leading glaciologists.

It’s just the latest example of global warming theory proponents hiding data and spreading demonstrably false claims in the name of getting governments to pour money into stopping global warming. This particular claim had been used to urge governments at the Copenhagen climate summit to submit to economy-killing emission limits.

And now Panchauri is lying about what he knew and when he knew it:

Asked whether he had deliberately kept silent about the error to avoid embarrassment at Copenhagen, he said: “That’s ridiculous. It never came to my attention before the Copenhagen summit. It wasn’t in the public sphere.”

However, a prominent science journalist said that he had asked Dr Pachauri about the 2035 error last November. Pallava Bagla, who writes for Science journal, said he had asked Dr Pachauri about the error. He said that Dr Pachauri had replied: “I don’t have anything to add on glaciers.”

What’s the truth about Himalayan glaciers? They’re not about to melt down to ice cubes anytime soon. As The Times points out, they’re so thick and at such a high altitude that it would take centuries — centuries — to melt. In fact, many show little sign of change whatsoever.

But that’s not a convenient fact for proponents of the global warming theory. So they lied and insisted that the glaciers would be gone in less than three decades. In fairness, they were only misrepresenting reality by a few centuries, so…