Environmental Law

IAC slams IPCC process, suggests removal of top officials ( whether Pachauri should resign??)

By STEPHEN HOLZER

Flaws Found in U.N. Climate Structure

By NEIL MacFARQUHAR

UNITED NATIONS ? The scientists involved in producing the periodic United Nations reports on climate change need to be more open to alternative views and more transparent about their own possible conflicts of interest, an independent review panel said Monday.

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The revelations about the errors contributed to the already highly charged debate about the science of climate change and gave added ammunition to critics doubting assessments that the earth is warming. Coming on the heels of leaked e-mails among some of the leading climate change researchers which suggested that they were manipulating data, the mistakes contributed to what surveys showed were an erosion in public confidence in the science of climate change.

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