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Revision as of 11:09, 30 January 2002 by Ed Poor (talk | contribs) (created by the UN's WMO and UNEP; retitiled heading)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established in 1988 by two United Nations organizations, the WMO and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). It is an environmental organization led by government scientists, but also involving several hundred academic scientists and researchers from many nations. The IPCC monitors the available information about climate change and has published four major reports reviewing the latest climate science. The IPCC was founded in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environmental Program.
The IPCC was one of the forces behind the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and in 1996 produced a report called Climate Change 1995 which claimed to have found proof for anthopogenic global warming. The report is widely cited as the main evidence for gllobal warming.
IPCC and scientific objectivity
A Dec. 20, 1995, Reuters report quoted British scientist Keith Shine, one of IPCC's lead authors, discussing the IPCC Policymakers’ Summary: "We produce a draft, and then the policymakers go through it line by line and change the way it is presented.... It's peculiar that they have the final say in what goes into a scientists' report."
See: IPCC Policymakers' Summary
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