{"id":375025,"date":"2010-03-01T08:12:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T13:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3157"},"modified":"2010-03-01T08:12:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T13:12:48","slug":"u-n-will-set-independent-panel-to-review-ipcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/375025","title":{"rendered":"U.N. will set independent panel to review IPCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704188104575083681319834978.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEADNewsCollection\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/si.wsj.net\/public\/resources\/images\/P1-AT994_IPCC_S_F_20100225192743.jpg\" width=\"324\" align=\"right\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eenews.net\/Greenwire\/2010\/02\/26\/5\/\">Greenwire<\/a>: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/contributor\/united.nations\">United Nations<\/a> will commission an independent group of top scientists to review its climate science panel in the wake of accusations of sloppy work, a U.N. climate spokesman said today.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes following the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change_%28IPCC%29\">Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change&#8217;s<\/a> admission that it made a mistake in one of its 2007 findings that predicted Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2035. The figure should have been 2350. The error has fueled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Climate_Change_%28collection%29\">climate change<\/a> skepticism.<\/p>\n<p>The independent group will look at the way the IPCC operates and will recommend changes. Part of the review will investigate the IPCC&#8217;s use of information from outside peer-reviewed academic journals, since a report from campaign group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/contributor\/wwf\">World Wildlife Fund<\/a> is blamed for introducing the false statement that Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035 into the IPCC report. Details of the review will be announced next week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yesterday, it was clear from the member states roughly how they would like this panel to be &#8212; fully independent and not appointed by the IPCC, but appointed by an independent group of scientists themselves,&#8221; said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/contributor\/unep\">U.N. Environment Programme<\/a> spokesman Nick Nuttall. The group will likely complete its review and produce a report by August, he said (David Adam, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2010\/feb\/26\/ipcc-independent-scientific-review\">London <em>Guardian<\/em><\/a>, Feb. 26).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> analysis has found that the IPCC sometimes faces institutional bias toward oversimplification because of the panel&#8217;s tricky mission of boiling sophisticated science into accessible advice for lawmakers (Ball\/Johnson, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704188104575083681319834978.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEADNewsCollection\"><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a> [subscription required], Feb. 26). <strong>&#8211; DFM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3157&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3157\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenwire: The United Nations will commission an independent group of top scientists to review its climate science panel in the wake of accusations of sloppy work, a U.N. climate spokesman said today. The announcement comes following the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change&#8217;s admission that it made a mistake in one of its 2007 findings that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375025","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\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}