Did You Know This Is How The UN Published Its Latest Global Warming Memo?

Question

As everyone is probably by now aware, Friday, February 2, 2007 marks the release of the IPCC's political document: Assessment Report 4, Summary for Policymakers. The media seem to be operating under the misapprehension this is equivalent to the release of IPCC Working Group I Contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis -- this is regrettably neither true nor even close to the truth.

Bizarrely, the actual report will be retained for another three months to facilitate editing -- to suit the summary! IPCC procedures state that: Changes (other than grammatical or minor editorial changes) made after acceptance by the Working Group or the Panel shall be those necessary to ensure consistency with the Summary for Policymakers or the Overview Chapter (Appendix A to the Principles Governing IPCC Work, p4/15) -- this is surely unacceptable and would not be tolerated in virtually any other field.

Answer 1

if the UN has anything to do with it you can bet that is is

UN-factual
UN-reliable
UN-trust-able.

Answer 2

The UN are an Incompetent collection of free-loading yes men. Totally and utterly pointless, but paid extortionate salaries for doing precisely f*ck all of any worth in this world.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I'm skeptical of anything the republicans say, they've consistently proven they don't want any action taken on global warming and that they will smear/distort/lie to any length to obfuscate the issue.

Answer 5

This is business as usual for any committee. It is not only acceptable, it is normal procedure.