There is “virtually no possibility” of a few scientists biasing the advice given to governments by the UN’s top global warming body, its chair said today.
Rajendra Pachauri defended the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the wake of apparent suggestions in emails between climate scientists at the University of East Anglia that they had prevented work they did not agree with from being included in the panel’s fourth assessment report, which was published in 2007.
The emails were made public this month after a hacker illegally obtained them from servers at the university.
Pachauri said the large number of contributors and rigorous peer review mechanism adopted by the IPCC meant that any bias would be rapidly uncovered.
Would it, really? It wasn’t for all the years that the East Anglia folks were lying, so I just wonder how well those precautionary systems and checks and balances function when the data the studies are based on is destroyed.
Secondly, how was their work reviewed if the data they based it on was destroyed? Surely you can’t review a study and examine its findings if you can’t examine the data upon which it’s based.
Of course, a UN Climate Body representative has no financial interest whatsoever in denying the obvious fraud that just occured.
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