Swaminathan Aiyar is a research fellow at the Cato Institute. Vijay Kumar Raina is former deputy director-general of the Geological Survey of India. They are authors of the new paper, "False Alarm over the Retreat of the Himalayan Glaciers."
Activists have warned that global warming will rapidly melt the Himalayan glaciers feeding the major river basins of the Ganges, Indus and Brahmaputra, creating vast deserts, economic devastation, and, worst of all, wars over scarce water in the Indian subcontinent.
