Thursday, March 11, 2010

FOXNews.com - After Climate-Gate, U.N. Submits to Independent Review

FOXNews.com - After Climate-Gate, U.N. Submits to Independent Review: "The U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the embattled head of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have ordered a newly formed outside scientific panel to review its 'procedures and practices' -- and more significantly, its management.

The hastily assembled panel will be headed by Prof. Robbert H. Dijkgraaf, head of the Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and co-chairman of the InterAcademy Council. The investigation will be carried out by the Council and will be composed of unpaid volunteer scientists. The panel's formation, it was acknowledged at a press conference Wednesday, was a direct reaction to criticism of the way the IPCC put together its last report on climate change.

The Council is composed of the heads of national science academies in 15 countries, according to Dijkgraaf, a theoretical physicist."

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