People are losing trust in research works relating to climate change due to recently exposed errors in a report about the global warming.

Skepticism over the climate change reports may pose difficulties for the Congress which wants to pass climate legislation.

Recently, officials in Texas and Virginia filed challenges to the finding of the Environmental Protection Agency which claimed that manmade greenhouse gases threaten health of the public.

A fresh survey conducted by the BBC showed that people's confidence in climate change slipped from 83 per cent in November last year to 75 per cent in February.

Earlier in 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had stated in a report Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2035. But, critics claimed that it was a blunder.

The prediction had not come from a peer-reviewed scientific study but from a well-known Indian glacier expert who was quoted in a British science magazine. But, that Indian glacier expert now claims that he never had predicted such a date.

Speaking on the topic, Britain's Royal Society said, "Science moves forward by challenge and debate and this will continue."

The only way to prevent skepticism from flourishing is make a reality check and revival of public confidence through free & fair debates.