March 09, 2010
Outside science academies to review warming panel
The Associated PressThe beleaguered global warming panel has found an outside group to review how it makes its reports.
The InterAcademy Council will be given complete control to review the rules, procedures and reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Recently, a handful of unsettling, but relatively minor, errors have been found in the climate panel reports issued in 2007.
The Netherlands-based organization of 15 national science councils will pick the scientists for the review. Details will be announced Wednesday at the United Nations.
The climate change panel was formed by the UN and the World Meteorological Organization. The panel shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 with former Vice President Al Gore.