The credibility of Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change is facing strong threats. The IPCC reports and their citations have provided all the fodder for sceptics in the past few weeks. First the blunder in quoting 2035 as the year expected for glaciers to melt and now quoting WWF's report on disappearance of Amazon forests.

The real dates predicted by scientists for glacier's melting was 2350 and not 2035. Which means they got it wrong by 315 years. This makes glaciers melting a non-problem actually. To put into perspective, its like our ancestors in the 1700's who were suffering from the little ice age wracking their brains to try and warm the planet for the future generations.

And quoting WWF on forests can be compared to quoting a priest to prove the existence of god. I sound too harsh but this is exactly how a sceptic friend of mine described it to me.

I'm not a sceptic but I'm very careful about the sources I gather my information from and I very rarely read reports by climate change activist organizations. From my experiences with them I've found an overwhelming tendency to exaggerate or bend facts to prove their points. Most of what they say is true but then some of it is not. I'm reminded of the discussion on this very platform about climate change activism turning into a religion. Well in some quarters it has turned into a religion. Some activists I met in Copenhagen had been 'protesting' for decades. They are transient folk who just need a cause or some kind of war.

So that meant I depend on the IPCC working group reports for the facts and I still will. Being trained as a scientist and analyst, I don't find it very painful to read the very dry text. And I think I'm smart enough to make my own analysis instead of depending on an activist group to simplify it for me. All this while the IPCC documents have not been scrutinized in public because their reports are very difficult to read for the layman. And their condensed reports for policy makers are now being claimed to have points which were never in the original reports.

These blunders that the IPCC has made is very disappointing. I feel betrayed even. The IPCC is supposed to be a neutral source of science and not turn into an advocacy group. Somewhere in the past few years when climate change began to occupy front pages of newspapers they turned into evangelists.

Now the final blow to IPCC will be revisions to their findings on temperature rises. I'm hoping those numbers are without blemish.