Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Program. It has published several influential reports on global warming and climate change. It is widely cited as reporting a consensus among the world's scientists that global warming is happening and that human activity is probably the main driver. [2]
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.
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![1][2]
Notes
- ↑ 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. [1]
