UNITED NATIONS — The scientists involved in producing the periodic United Nations reports on climate change need to be more open to alternative views and more transparent about their own possible conflicts of interest, an independent review panel said Monday.
Who'd ever have thought it? At least the review wasn't the total whitewash that many had expected; it identified clear failures and fundamental flaws involving the methodology and the conduct of these folks. Recommended changes include removing the top officials involved in producing the IPCC reports, which for an independent review panel for the U.N. is spectacularly unusual, and amounts to a tacit remonstration of the politics that have defined IPCC reports to date.
What's really surprising, though, is that the New York Times actually reported it.
