"After the Climategate emails scandal of last winter, and discoveries of some embarrassing errors in the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), its chairman, Rajendra Pachauri, asked the Inter-Academy Council (IAC) to review IPCC procedures. The IAC is a little-known branch of the Inter-Academy Panel, itself a little-known committee that connects national academic societies. It was a safe choice for Pachauri. The last IAC report was a glowing tribute to alternative energy schemes, coauthored by Pachauri himself (...)"

financialpost.com

"A group investigating the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will recommend in a report Monday that the scientific organization beef up its capacity to ferret out errors in its scientific assessments, a member of the investigating body said.But the group, appointed by the InterAcademy Council, a consortium of national scientific academies, won't pass judgment in its report on the state of knowledge about global warming and its causes. It also won't address whether IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri should resign—a step that some critics have called for and that the chairman has said he doesn't intend to take. (...)

The council's board picked the 12-member panel from nominations submitted by scientific and engineering academies around the world. The panel is headed by economist and former Princeton University President Harold Shapiro.

Mr. Molina, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego, helped to write the 2007 IPCC report—experience that the InterAcademy Council wanted reflected on the investigative panel.

Another panel member worked on an earlier IPCC report and a third member gave a presentation at a planning meeting for the IPCC's next climate-science report, due out in phases in 2013 and 2014, an InterAcademy Council spokesman said.

The other members of the investigative panel haven't worked with the IPCC, the spokesman said."

wsj.com

"One cannot conclude 100 percent that nothing like this has happened in the past 200 years, but the suspicion is there. Even if it's only a suspicion," said Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, vice-president of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has tracked the impact of human activity on climate for the past 20 years.

"These are events which reproduce and intensify in a climate disturbed by greenhouse gas pollution," he said.

"Extreme events are one of the ways in which climatic changes become dramatically visible."

google.com with AFP

"La nappe de pétrole émanant de la plateforme de BP a pratiquement disparu ces jours derniers".

Par Lorraine Millot, correspondante de Libé à Washington, qui s'attache à montrer les divergences radicales d'opinions entre "experts" dans le domaine des sciences naturelles, un clivage qui évoque immanquablement les débats sur et au sein du GIEC.

"Le 11 juin dernier, à Busan (Corée), 90 États ont donné le feu vert à la création de l'Intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services (IPBES). Cette «platform», calquée sur le groupe d'experts intergouvernemental sur l'évolution du climat (GIEC), est chargée de donner l'expertise scientifique en matière de biodiversité. Mais contrairement au GIEC, cette institution aura également un mandat politique pour décider des autorisations ou des interdictions d'agir au nom de la protection de la biodiversité, partout dans le monde. En outre, cette instance sera adossée à un fonds d'investissement alimenté par les contributions volontaires des États. Sa création doit être entérinée en septembre, à New York, lors de l'Assemblée générale des Nations Unies."

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