New Scientist
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No sooner is the Nobel prize in the bag than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is coming under fire for not being quick enough on its feet. Levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide are rising faster than any climate models predict, and this has prompted some climate scientists to call for an urgent overhaul of the IPCC.
Key conclusions in the final part of the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report on climate change, which it publishes next month, are based on research that is several years old, says Inez Fung at the Berkeley Institute of the Environment, California. For her research to be considered in this year’s report, she had to complete it by 2004. “There is an awful lag in the IPCC process,” she says. Read more on newscientist.com…
