How many members are there of the IPCC (UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)?

Answer 1

The IPCC is an apolitical organisation that exists to collate, co-ordinate and commission the work of climate scientists and to disseminate the information - primarily in the form of regular reports and assessment reports. The information is shared between the countries that are party to the UNFCCC.

As I'm not entirely sure what you're askling I'll provide 3 answers.

The IPCC has 2 'members' in so much as it's a configuration of the United Nations Environmental Programme and the World Meteorological Organisation.

There are 180 countries and states that are party to the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), this represents almost every country and state in the world.

Whilst the IPCC doesn't specifically have it's own climate scientists, it has drawn on the work of over 2,500 such scientists from over 30 countries.

Answer 2

Here's a site that might help you.It includes
"Dr Vincent Gray, of Wellington, an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), most recently a visiting scholar at the Beijing Climate Centre in China."

http://nzclimatescience.net/index.php

It will tell you A LOT about the IPCC.

Answer 3

Blog: Science Survey: Less Than Half of all Published Scientists Endorse Global Warming Theory
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IPCC co-chairs for Netherlands and Sierra Leone debate changes to the Report Summary.
Comprehensive survey of published climate research reveals changing viewpoints

In 2004, history professor Naomi Oreskes performed a survey of research papers on climate change. Examining peer-reviewed papers published on the ISI Web of Science database from 1993 to 2003, she found a majority supported the "consensus view," defined as humans were having at least some effect on global climate change. Oreskes' work has been repeatedly cited, but as some of its data is now nearly 15 years old, its conclusions are becoming somewhat dated.

Medical researcher Dr. Klaus-Martin Schulte recently updated this research. Using the same database and search terms as Oreskes, he examined all papers published from 2004 to February 2007. The results have been submitted to the journal Energy and Environment, of which DailyTech has obtained a pre-publication copy. The figures are surprising.

Of 528 total papers on climate change, only 38 (7%) gave an explicit endorsement of the consensus. If one considers "implicit" endorsement (accepting the consensus without explicit statement), the figure rises to 45%. However, while only 32 papers (6%) reject the consensus outright, the largest category (48%) are neutral papers, refusing to either accept or reject the hypothesis. This is no "consensus."

The figures are even more shocking when one remembers the watered-down definition of consensus here. Not only does it not require supporting that man is the "primary" cause of warming, but it doesn't require any belief or support for "catastrophic" global warming. In fact of all papers published in this period (2004 to February 2007), only a single one makes any reference to climate change leading to catastrophic results.

These changing viewpoints represent the advances in climate science over the past decade. While today we are even more certain the earth is warming, we are less certain about the root causes. More importantly, research has shown us that -- whatever the cause may be -- the amount of warming is unlikely to cause any great calamity for mankind or the planet itself.

Schulte's survey contradicts the United Nation IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report (2007), which gave a figure of "90% likely" man was having an impact on world temperatures. But does the IPCC represent a consensus view of world scientists? Despite media claims of "thousands of scientists" involved in the report, the actual text is written by a much smaller number of "lead authors." The introductory "Summary for Policymakers" -- the only portion usually quoted in the media -- is written not by scientists at all, but by politicians, and approved, word-by-word, by political representatives from member nations. By IPCC policy, the individual report chapters -- the only text actually written by scientists -- are edited to "ensure compliance" with the summary, which is typically published months before the actual report itself.

By contrast, the ISI Web of Science database covers 8,700 journals and publications, including every leading scientific journal in the world.

Answer 4

I thought this was very interesting. "The Science is Settled!"


http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=22401
"U.N. Blackballs International Scientists from Climate Change Conference"
"(CHICAGO, Illinois - December 5, 2007) -- The United Nations has rejected all attempts by a group of dissenting scientists seeking to present information at the climate change conference taking place in Bali, Indonesia.

The International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC) has been denied the opportunity to present at panel discussions, side events, and exhibits; its members were denied press credentials. The group consists of distinguished scientists from Africa, Australia, India, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The scientists, citing pivotal evidence on climate change published in peer-reviewed journals, have expressed their opposition to the UN's alarmist theory of anthropogenic global warming. As the debate on man-made global warming has been heating up, the UN has tried to freeze out the scientists and new evidence, summarily dismissing them with the claim "the science is settled."

Answer 5

Learn all about the IPCC from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change

Take those comments from the "Heartland Institute" with a very large grain of salt:
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=41

Answer 6

There are hundreds of scientists who participate in one way or another. Global warming is a big field with many subspecialties.

I'm sure there's some permanent staff, but the science is done by and large by people who have full time positions elsewhere.