Monday, January 25, 2010

The IPCC And The WWF

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is mandated by the United Nations to investigate and report on climate change. The credibility of its work relies entirely on scientific peer review.

Now, the depths of the IPCC's entanglement with the non-peer reviewed activism of the World Wildlife Fund is being plumbed. Via Watts Up With That:
... it turns out that the WWF is cited all over the IPCC AR4 report, and as you know, WWF does not produce peer reviewed science, they produce opinion papers in line with their vision. Yet IPCC’s rules are such that they are supposed to rely on peer reviewed science only. It appears they’ve violated that rule dozens of times ...

A new posting authored by Canadian blogger Donna Laframboise, the creator of NOconsensus.org, shows what one can find in just one day of looking.

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