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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 ...
U.N. Climate Panel Apologizes for Faulty 2007 Statement on Melting Glaciers
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the division of the United Nations that researches global warming, apologized Wednesday for a 2007 report that claimed the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035, CNN reports. The IPCC was responding a controversy swirling around a particular paragraph in the 2007 statement that had come from a long chain of popular articles -- essentially scientific hearsay. The statement read: "Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world, and if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 ...
The (Global Warming) Sky is Falling
By Justin Paulette - Politics DailyThe long-anticipated UN report on climate change has been released, and unsurprisingly, they have again concluded that Armageddon is lurking just around the corner. "Abrupt and irreversible changes" will soon cause the extinction of one-third of all species on a soon-to-be unrecognizable earth. Of course, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which issued the report has but slightly more credibility than the UN Commission on Human Rights (or any number of debunked UN agencies). The IPCC has proved itself a chicken-little organization, crying that the sky is falling (quite ...
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