Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday called the Nobel-prize winning Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) headed by India’s Rajendra Pachauri alarmist and dubbed its report predicting that Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035 owing to climate change as not based on science.

A warning that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted by the UN body after a series of scientific blunders by the United Nations body that issued it, reports Times London, triggering a fresh controversy.

“You must have seen the report in London’s Times. It clearly vindicates our position. Glaciers are serious issues and they are cause for concern. But IPCC’s alarmist position was not based on an iota of scientific evidence,” said Ramesh at a programme.

“In my view it is alarmist and misplaced,” he said slamming the UN body now headed by an Indian.

According to Times, two years ago the IPCC issued a benchmark report that was claimed to incorporate the latest and most detailed research into the impact of global warming. A central claim was the world's glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035.

The scientists behind the warning have admitted that it was based on a news story in the New Scientist, a popular science journal, published eight years before the IPCC's 2007 report, the Times report said.

Little known scientist of Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, Syed Hasnain, had first issued the doomsday warning, TV reports said.

Rajendra Pachauri said the report of Husnain was published when he was not working with him but in the JNU.

"Husnain was with JNU when the report was published in 1999. I am not responsible for what he did in his past, can't say anything now. Have to assess facts first," Pachauri told CNN IBN.