Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the UN's climate panel. It promotes the theory that most of the last century's global warming is human caused, while downplaying or ignoring all evidence to the contrary.
It was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Program.[1] It has published several influential reports on global warming and climate change, claiming a "consensus" among the world's scientists that global warming is happening and that human activity is probably the main driver. [3] This claim is belied by petitions and surveys of scientists.
Although it is cited by advocates of the Kyoto Protocol as a "scientific" intergovernmental body, it in fact does not carry out or sponsor scientific research. It is a political body, dedicated to promoting changes to the global warming treaty. Its periodic reports are slanted toward that end, downplaying and often disagreeing with the scientific consensus.
- The charge to the IPCC is not simply to summarize, but rather to provide the science with which to support the negotiating process whose aim is to control greenhouse gas levels. This is a political rather than a scientific charge.[2]
On at least two occasions, the IPCC has issued summaries for policymakers which contradict the scientific reports submitted to it. In the most recent case, they issued their summary before receiving the report![3][4]
In 2007, the IPCC shared the Nobel Peace Prize with former U.S. Vice President Albert Gore.
Notes
- ↑ "The IPCC was established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 1988." [1]
- ↑ Climate Science: Is It Designed To Answer Questions?
- ↑ The misuse of the IPCC summaries, however, is not entirely accidental.
- ↑ ...it was discovered that substantial, possibly unauthorized changes were made in the IPCC report that forms the scientific basis for decisions regarding the UN Climate Convention. The revisions were made quietly after the acceptance of the report and before its printing. As confirmed in the scientific journal Nature (June 13), the changes altered the sense of the (scientific) report and were done in order to "conform" it to the IPCC's (political) Summary for Policymakers. [2]
