ENVIRONMENT: IPCC report: triumph of spin over substance*

When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest summary for policy-makers, it was uncritically endorsed by various media outlets, European governments and environmental organisations, but was the subject of robust criticism from some of the world’s leading climate scientists. Commenting on IPCC claims that there was a 95 per cent certainty that human activity was causing unprecedented climate change, British Prime Minister David Cameron said, “If someone said…

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