Independent body to review climate panel

2010-03-10T20:15:38Z

<div><p>A respected international scientific body will review the UN's Nobel prize-winning climate panel, under fire for errors in a key report on global warming, UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said.</p><p>Ban told reporters that the Amsterdam-based UN's Nobel prize-winning climate panel, under fire for errors in a key report on global warming, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday.</p><p>Ban told reporters that the Amsterdam-based

UN launches review of criticized climate panel

2010-03-10T12:00:39Z

<div><p>UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday that a group of national science academies would review U.N. climate science to restore trust after a 2007 global warming report was found to have errors.</p><p>The U.N. UN, climate panel to get outside review from world's top scientists after spate of errors</div><div><p>At a tumultuous time in U.N.-led climate negotiations, one of the world's most credible scientific groups agreed Wednesday to plug the recent cracks in the authoritative reports of the United Nations' Nobel Prize-winning global warming pa...

Outside science academies to review warming panel

2010-03-09T16:30:14Z

<div id="subtitle">International collection of science academies to review UN global warming panel's work, rules</div><div><p>The beleaguered global warming panel has found an outside group to review how it writes its reports.</p><p>An international group, the InterAcademy Council, will be given complete control to review the rule...

Al Gore takes aim at climate change skeptics

2010-03-01T06:00:26Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Vice President Al Gore took aim at skeptics who doubt the reality of human-caused climate change, saying he wished it were an illusion but that the problem is real and urgent.</p><p>Gore, who has made the fight against climate change his signature issue since leaving the Nobel Prize-winning international scientific panel studying global warming is seeking independent outside review for how it makes major reports.</p><p>The Intergovernmen...

U.N. to create science panel to review IPCC

2010-02-26T08:45:12Z

<div><p>NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - An independent board of scientists is to review the work of a U.N. climate panel, whose credibility came under attack after it published errors, a U.N. environment spokesman said on Friday.</p><p>The United Nations will review its Nobel prize-winning climate panel, whose credibility has been tarnished by errors in a key report on global warming, a spokesman said on Friday.</p><p>Calls have been mounting for a major overhaul at the Int...

World warming unhindered by cold spells: scientists

2010-02-25T07:30:29Z

<div><p>SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The pace of global warming continues unabated, scientists said on Thursday, despite images of Europe crippled by a deep freeze and parts of the United States blasted by blizzards.</p><p>The bitter cold, with more intense winter weather forecast for March in parts of the United ...

Study: Warming to bring stronger hurricanes

2010-02-21T10:45:17Z

<div id="subtitle">Experts settle hurricane and global warming feud; predict bigger storms, but fewer ones</div><div><p>Top researchers now agree that the world is likely to get stronger but fewer hurricanes in the future because of global warming, seeming to settle a scientific debate on the subject. But they say there's not enough evidence yet to tell whether that effect has already begun.</p><p>Since just before Britain and "glitches" in a report by the UN climate change panel, top scientists said Friday.</p><p>"There's consensus that action is justified, indeed imperative to reduce the problem of a really serious long-term global effect on the climate," said

U.N. climate panel admits Dutch sea level flaw

2010-02-22T09:41:52Z

<div><p>OSLO (Reuters) - The U.N. panel of climate experts overstated how much of the Netherlands is below sea level, according to a preliminary report on Saturday, admitting yet another flaw after a row last month over Himalayan glacier melt.</...

Scientists seek better way to do climate report

2010-02-22T10:20:53Z

<div id="subtitle">Scientists call for better way to do climate report; errors tarnish Nobel Prize-winning effort</div><div><p>A steady drip of unsettling errors is exposing what scientists are calling "the weaker link" in the Nobel Peace Prize-winning series of international reports on global warming.</p>&...

Climate Report Woes

2010-02-10T10:31:04Z

FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2010 file photo, the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Rajendra Pachauri speaks during a press conference in New Delhi, India. Some climate scientists are calling for drastic changes i...

U.N. climate panel reviews Dutch sea level glitch

2010-02-22T11:29:57Z

<div><p>OSLO (Reuters) - The U.N.'s panel of climate experts said on Friday it was reviewing whether it wrongly said that more than half of the Netherlands is below sea level in a new glitch after exaggerating the thaw of Himalayan glaciers.</p&...

Companies feel threatened by climate fight: U.N. chief

2010-02-22T11:58:34Z

<div><p>NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Certain countries and companies feel threatened by growing efforts against climate change, the U.N. climate chief said on Thursday, after other officials spoke of a campaign to undermine a consensus on global warming.</p><p>UN climate panel are defending its integrity, even as they called for changes in the way data is collected and handled.</p><p>The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has come under intense fire in recent weeks ov...

UN climate panel reviewing natural disasters claim: report

2010-02-22T15:35:09Z

<div><p>The UN climate panel is re-examining its claim that global warming is linked to worsening natural disasters after doubts were raised about the evidence, a British newspaper reported on Sunday.</p><p>The news brings fresh embarrassment to the Intergovernmental Panel ...

U.N. climate chief rejects resigning over glacier gaffe

2010-02-22T16:04:27Z

<div><p>NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The head of the U.N.'s panel of climate scientists promised on Saturday to tighten research procedures but dismissed talk he should resign over an erroneous projection that Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035.</p><p>A 2007 report f...

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