Climate research: Call on global warming errors
The international body set up to study global warming needs major changes in the way it is run following a series of high-profile mistakes, according to a report.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which reviews climate science for governments, needs to ensure it can handle more complex assessments of global warming and intense public scrutiny, the report by the InterAcademy Council, an organisation of the world's science bodies found.
The work of the IPCC has come under fire in recent months following revelations of inaccuracies in the last assessment of global warming provided to governments in 2007, for which it won the Nobel Peace Prize with former US vice president Al Gore.
The mistakes included the claim that Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035.