{"id":236789,"date":"2010-01-27T10:48:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T15:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nw0.eu\/?p=5511"},"modified":"2010-01-27T10:48:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T15:48:44","slug":"canadian-scientist-says-un%e2%80%99s-global-warming-panel-%e2%80%98crossing-the-line%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/236789","title":{"rendered":"Canadian scientist says UN\u2019s global warming panel \u2018crossing the line\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard Foot,
\nCanwest News Service<\/a>
\nWednesday, January 27th, 2010<\/p>\n

A senior Canadian climate scientist<\/a> says the United Nations\u2019 panel on global warming<\/a> has become tainted by political advocacy, that its chairman should resign, and that its approach to science should be overhauled.<\/p>\n

Andrew Weaver, a climatologist at the University of Victoria, says the leadership of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change<\/a> (IPCC) has allowed it to advocate for action on global warming<\/a>, rather than serve simply as a neutral science advisory body.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s been some dangerous crossing of that line,\u201d said Weaver on Tuesday, echoing the published sentiments of other top climate scientists<\/a> in the U.S. and Europe this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome might argue we need a change in some of the upper leadership of the IPCC, who are perceived as becoming advocates,\u201d he told Canwest News Service. \u201cI think that is a very legitimate question.\u201d<\/p>\n

Weaver also says the IPCC has become too large and unwieldy. He says its periodic reports, such as the 3,000 page, 2007 report that won the Nobel Prize, are eating up valuable academic resources and driving scientists to produce work on tight, artificial deadlines, at the expense of other, longer-term inquiries that are equally important to understanding climate change<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Full article here<\/a> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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