A prominent British newspaper has claimed that the United Nation body on climate change has made some major blunders in estimating the Himalayan proportion over important evidence with regards to global warming.

According to the claims put forward by The Sunday Times, important findings on melting glaciers that have been shared by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change might have been simply picked up from a press interview that involved an "obscure Indian scientist".

"A central claim was that the world's glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035. In the past few days 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 report stressed.

The newspaper's report has also asserted that the findings, that climate change would end up melting most of the Himalayan glaciers by the time 2035 rolls in, will now most probably be retraced due to the "blunder".

The newspaper's claims have come as an embarrassment for the UN body, which had issued the report on climate change and melting of glaciers about 2 years back and had called it "the latest and most detailed research into global warming".