Glaciergate
name
name ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A 2010 controversy resulting from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change mistakenly claiming in a 2007 report that the glaciers of the Himalayas would melt by 2035.
"But no one, it seems, is more embarrassed by "Glaciergate" than Dr Pachauri himself, whose expanding worldwide business connections since he became chairman of the IPCC have recently been the subject of articles in these pages by Dr North and myself."
Example
More examples"But no one, it seems, is more embarrassed by "Glaciergate" than Dr Pachauri himself, whose expanding worldwide business connections since he became chairman of the IPCC have recently been the subject of articles in these pages by Dr North and myself."
Etymology
From glacier + -gate.
More for "glaciergate"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.