claim: In 1999 New Scientist reported a comment by the leading Indian glaciologist Syed Hasnain, who said in an email interview with this author that all the glaciers in the central and eastern Himalayas could disappear by 2035.
evidence: This was a March 2005 World Wildlife Fund Nepal Program report, page 29 : In 1999, a report by the Working Group on Himalayan Glaciology ( WGHG ) of the International Commission for Snow and Ice ( ICSI ) stated : “glaciers in the Himalayas are receding faster than in any other part of the world and, if the present rate continues, the livelihood [ sic ] of them disappearing by the year 2035 is very high”.