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IPCC faces another desertion – its own past chair!
Lawrence
Solomon
Financial Post
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
The past chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change has joined the growing list of IPCC critics. According
to the Sunday Telegraph, Rajendra Pachauri, the disgraced current
IPCC chair, now faces criticism from his immediate predecessor,
Robert Watson. The Telegraph reports that Watson “stressed
that the chairman must take responsibility for correcting errors.”
In another indication that Watson is taking pains to distance
himself from the organization he once headed, the Sunday Times,
in a story entitled Top British scientist says UN panel is losing
credibility, reports that Watson warned the IPCC that it must
tackle its blunders.
Watson’s comments come on the heels of another glaring
embarrassment to come out of the IPCC, this time a claim that
global warming could cut crop production in north Africa by
up to 50% by 2020. “Any such projection should be based
on peer-reviewed literature from computer modelling of how agricultural
yields would respond to climate change,” Watson stated.
“I can see no such data supporting the IPCC report.”
In this latest high-profile IPCC gaffe, which has been repeated
around the world, including by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,
the IPCC seems to have relied on a 2003 report from a Winnipeg-based
think tank called the International Institute for Sustainable
Development. The report, which was not peer-reviewed, in turn
seems to have relied on submissions to the UN by civil servants
from Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco, which also appear not to
have been peer-reviewed.
Apart from his post as past IPCC chair, Watson is also the
UK’s highest level environmental scientist, as Chief Scientist
at the UK’s environment ministry. Prior to his current
position, which he assumed in 2007, Watson was Chair of Environmental
Science and Science Director of the Tyndall Centre at the University
of East Anglia, the same university caught up in the Climategate
scandal.
Watson’s new-found scepticism of the science being produced
by the IPCC represents an ironic reversal. In 2002, he remarked
that "The only person who doesn't believe the science is
President Bush."
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