How to Reform the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 15:35 in Earth & Climate

Himalayan glaciers to disappear by 2035. Nuclear power plants cheaper than fossil fuel–fired ones. A chairman who might have financial conflicts of interest (and an interest in penning a racy, loosely autobiographical romance novel ). These are some of the mistakes currently argued to have been made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)--a panel of more than 2,500 volunteer scientists and other experts from 154 countries tasked with assessing climate change. [More]

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