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An error in a UN global warming report is becoming a mounting problem for its Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The Nobel Prize-winning report claimed that the Himalayan glaciers could melt away by 2035 – but now the panel is saying that that prediction was based on flawed scientific data.

We’re looking at different perspectives on the issue from CNN, Times Now, Clean Skies News, and Mother Nature Network.

The panel apologized for the mistake and now says the correct date is 2050 -- but the controversy isn’t going away.

CNN is calling the issue “Glacier-gate” – and says the report is a “gift” to global warming nay-sayers and that:

“…the credibility of the UN’s prestigious science body dealt a severe blow at a time when climate skepticism is rising in the wake of the row over stolen e-mails from the University of East Anglia.”

Clean Skies News and Russia Today offer differing perspectives from a scientist and a Cato Institute fellow.

Clean Skies News: “I don’t really see this a major issue because as far as the scientific evidence is concerned for warming and the affects of warming on glaciers, that’s quite clear. So, in terms of the facts that these people made some mistakes and what they put down, that has to be separated from the basic facts that we have to see.”

Russia Today: “It wasn’t one little typo because it was used in an awful lot of arguments for regulation, it was a very important piece of uninformation.”

The story has been big news in India – that’s because the country relies heavily on the Himalayas for water and the UN panel is lead by an Indian.

Mumbai-based Times Now editor in chief Arnab Goswami grills Syed Hasnain, the scientist whom many say is the source behind the error.

“You said 2035.”

“I never, ever said that. I was given this number because this is the kind of number I don’t from where it came.”

Karl Burkart of the Mother Nature Network writes that there is plenty of blame to go around for the screw-up.

“However this controversy works out and whomever gets fired over it, one thing is certain ... the glaciers really don’t care what any of us think. They're going to keep trickling away.”

When you think about it – the mistake that caught everyone’s attention was just 15 years – from 2035 to 2050. Is that a big enough reason to doubt the pace of global warming?

Or, do think it’s a sign that other conclusions about climate change could be wrong?