Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2010 6:49:30 GMT 10
UNITED NATIONS - The world's biggest scientific guns are being called in to mop up after a trickle of unsettling errors in the reports written by the U.N. climate panel.
The United Nations and the beleaguered Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said Wednesday that a Netherlands-based group of 15 national academies of science will study how the warming panel does its job.
The independent review will be finished by the end of August, said Robbert Dijkgraaf, co-chairman of the group, the InterAcademy Council
"Let me be clear — the threat posed by climate change is real," U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told reporters alongside IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri. "Nothing that has been alleged or revealed in the media recently alters the fundamental scientific consensus on climate change."
But, he added, "we need to ensure full transparency, accuracy and objectivity, and minimize the potential for any errors going forward."
Pachauri, who has been resisting pressure from critics to resign, said he expected the review "will help us in strengthening the entire process by which we carry out preparation of our reports."
Neither Pachauri nor Ban took questions from reporters.
The United Nations and the beleaguered Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said Wednesday that a Netherlands-based group of 15 national academies of science will study how the warming panel does its job.
The independent review will be finished by the end of August, said Robbert Dijkgraaf, co-chairman of the group, the InterAcademy Council
"Let me be clear — the threat posed by climate change is real," U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told reporters alongside IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri. "Nothing that has been alleged or revealed in the media recently alters the fundamental scientific consensus on climate change."
But, he added, "we need to ensure full transparency, accuracy and objectivity, and minimize the potential for any errors going forward."
Pachauri, who has been resisting pressure from critics to resign, said he expected the review "will help us in strengthening the entire process by which we carry out preparation of our reports."
Neither Pachauri nor Ban took questions from reporters.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35799381/ns/us_news-environment/
Sorry, did I read this right...........
we need to ensure full transparency
Neither Pachauri nor Ban took questions from reporters
" Transperancy" fuck yeah baby.
I know in Aust the percentage of people concerned about climate change has gone from 48% down to about 20%.