Times (UK): Calls for the resignation of the embattled head of the UN climate change body were dismissed by its vice-chairman today as the organisation sought to repair its damaged credibility. The discredited claim that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035 because of global warming was just “one page in a 938-page report’, said Professor Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, vice-chairman of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Mr van Ypersele praised the IPCC chairman, Dr …