The work of the IPCC
Sir John Houghton sent us this piece about the work of the IPCC that he wrote for a Royal Society group. It is often argued, not only by sceptics, that the IPCC cannot be a truly scientific body because the Policymakers Summaries of its Reports are approved at plenary meetings with 100 governments present – UN style. Such ideas are very damaging to the IPCC’s acceptability. What is not generally appreciated is that amazingly these are genuinely scientific meetings – no political or other agendas are allowed to intrude. Only scientific or presentational points can be made. I hope this piece puts that argument to bed. The work of the IPCC