{"id":266373,"date":"2010-02-02T13:52:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T18:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5035"},"modified":"2010-02-02T13:52:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T18:52:47","slug":"national-post-editorial-board-the-ipcc-needs-a-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/266373","title":{"rendered":"National Post editorial board: The IPCC needs a makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=48\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;Editorial&quot;\">Editorial<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  The United Nations\u2019 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.<\/p>\n<p> The blows to the IPCC\u2019s integrity have been so great that even Andrew Weaver \u2014 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 \u2014 has called for the resignation of the agency\u2019s chairman, Indian economist Rajendra Pachauri. As Prof. Weaver told Canwest News Service last week, \u201cthe IPCC needs a fundamental shift\u201d back to its origins as a clearinghouse for only the most iron-clad, peer-reviewed climate science.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, even that move might be a futile gesture at this point. As December\u2019s Copenhagen Earth summit showed us, the world\u2019s leaders are in no mood to halt their countries\u2019 carbon emissions, which means there is also little support for the IPCC\u2019s other mission \u2014 finding ways to halt climate change.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSource: network.nationalpost.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5035\">Read in full with comments \u00bb<\/a>  &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/g5QhKcD_Wy_9cIopRfZHsg-OrjY\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/g5QhKcD_Wy_9cIopRfZHsg-OrjY\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/g5QhKcD_Wy_9cIopRfZHsg-OrjY\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/g5QhKcD_Wy_9cIopRfZHsg-OrjY\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ClimaterealistsNewsBlog\/~4\/ENwTHbWc4gA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: Editorial The United Nations\u2019 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}