U.N. Climate Report to Be Reviewed
Council will focus on how panel does its job.
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Published: Mar 12, 2010
The controversial report issued by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, will be reviewed by one of the world's most credible scientific groups, the InterAcademy Council, made up of 15 nations' national academies of science. Robert Kijkgraff, a Dutch mathematical physicist co-chairs the group. He says they enter this process with no preconceived conclusions.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asserted that there were a very small number of errors in the 3,000 pages of the beleaguered report. But those errors, which include projections of retreats in Himalayan glaciers, have put public confidence in the panel's work at risk, and have been seized on by climate skeptics opposed to the U.N.-led efforts to conclude a legal international agreement on global warming this year.
Among the questions being asked are whether the climate panel should use non-peer reviewed literature, how governments review IPCC material, and even how the IPCC communicates with the public. Dijkgraaf says his Netherlands-based group will definitely not go over all the data, but will instead focus on how the panel does its job. The group will pick a panel of experts and wrap up its independent review by the end of August.
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