IPCC:n ja varsinkin sen intialaisen puheenjohtajan asema on päivä päivältä käymässä tukalammaksi. Ellei ilmastopaneelia kyetä uudistamaan - m.l. uuden puheenjohtajan valinta - on koko ilmastotieteen uskottavuus vaarassa, toteavat kolme johtavaa ilmastotietieilijää Der Spiegelin julkaisemassa vetoomuksessa:
The Credibility of Climate Science is at Stake
The IPCC has started the preparations for the next major report, to be released in 2014. It may be
advisable to pause for wholesale institutional reform. The IPCC needs guidelines for the behavior of its
officials, and those guidelines must be enforced. With a policy on conflict of interest similar to those in
place in leading scientific advisory institutions, it seems obvious that the IPCC would need a new
chairperson. The IPCC needs to adhere to its own standards for appointing experts and reviewing material
that it reports. It needs to make its procedures for appointments more transparent. The IPCC
peer-review should be made more robust, with quality assurance overriding deadlines. A formal
mechanism should be put in place to correct errors after publication. Such reform will be a large and
difficult task. But the credibility of climate science depends upon it.
It will take many electoral cycles and all major countries to address the problems associated with climate
change. Partisan advice will be unpicked, sloppy research will be exposed. New observations and theory
will change aspects of the current understanding. Sustaining a climate policy that is effective, acceptable
and durable can only be based on sound and impartial advice from institutions that do their science
sustainably over many decades. The IPCC was supposed to provide that advice, but its standards have
slipped, its procedures have turned out to be insufficient and its credibility has been questioned.
Climate policy matters, and so too does the IPCC. Its importance means that reform is needed before the
reputation of all of climate science is irreparably damaged.
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