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Review: UN Climate Panel's Credibility 'Dented'
By Betwa Sharma - AOL NewsUNITED NATIONS (Aug. 30) -- The credibility of the United Nations' chief scientific body on climate change has been "dented" because of errors in its research and "fundamental changes" are needed in its management structure, according to outside investigators who reviewed the body's workings. The influential Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) "has been successful overall, but fundamental changes are necessary for its continued success," said Harold T. Shapiro, a former president of Princeton University who chaired the international committee made up of members of the ...
Opinion: Silver Lining in Global Warming Scandals?
By not in system - AOL News(Feb. 18) -- It's been a bad few months for advocates of action to address climate change. Last week's discovery of typos and poor sourcing in the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 report came just a few months after a reserve of stolen e-mails from East Anglia scientists showed that a few prominent climate researchers had tried to impede the publication of works by their detractors. Naturally, global warming skeptics have seized on these so-called "Climategate" stories to raise doubts about the science of global warming and demand that Congress suspend all efforts to ...
Vilified 'Climategate' Scientist Says He Considered Suicide
By David Sessions - Politics DailyPhil Jones, the British scientist at the center of a worldwide scandal over e-mails appearing to show climate scientists manipulating global warming data, says he considered killing himself "several times" during the crisis, the Times of London reports. "I am just a scientist," Jones said. "I have no training in PR or dealing with crises." As climate change deniers called for him to resign his post, and even making threats on his life, Jones lost weight and went on beta-blockers and sleeping pills. He continues to receive death threats, including two in the past week. "I was shocked," he ...
U.N. Panel Will Investigate Controversial Leaked Climate E-mails
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe United Nations panel on climate change says it will investigate a collection of leaked e-mails that have raised questions about the honesty of climate scientists, The Times of London reports. Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said accusations that a British university deliberately manipulated numbers to embellish the threat of global warming were serious and would take time to analyze. "We will certainly go into the whole lot and then we will take a position on it," Pauchari told a BBC Radio program. "We certainly don't want to brush anything ...
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