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The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) needs a top-down overhaul. So many revelations have been made recently about how the IPCC or its lead scientists have manipulated the data on global warming and worked behind the scenes to censor researchers who challenged the climate change orthodoxy, that the UN body no longer has any credibility.
The blows to the IPCC’s integrity have been so great that even Andrew Weaver — a Canadian climate scientist, prominent member of the IPCC, and himself an enthusiastic champion of the prevailing theory that human industrial activity is making the world hotter — has called for the resignation of the agency’s chairman, Indian economist Rajendra Pachauri. As Prof. Weaver told Canwest News Service last week, “the IPCC needs a fundamental shift” back to its origins as a clearinghouse for only the most iron-clad, peer-reviewed climate science.
On the other hand, even that move might be a futile gesture at this point. As December’s Copenhagen Earth summit showed us, the world’s leaders are in no mood to halt their countries’ carbon emissions, which means there is also little support for the IPCC’s other mission — finding ways to halt climate change.
Source: network.nationalpost.com