First the things that have been verified correct:
Zib
Next, the latest things not quite correct from the now infamous ‘07 climate report:
The IPCC’s beleaguered climate report faces the prospect of still more errors, as Dutch authorities point out factual inaccuracies about the Netherlands.
Dutch environment ministry spokesman Trimo Vallaart has asked the U.N.’s climate change panel to rethink its assertion that more than half of the Netherlands is below seal level. Dutch authorities explain that, in fact, only 26 percent of the country is below sea level.
I know, you are wondering how they could have gotten that number so wrong. Well, they lied.
According to an AFP story, IPCC experts calculated that 55 percent of the Netherlands was below sea level by adding the area below sea level — 26 percent — to the area threatened by river flooding — 29 percent — Vallaart said. “They should have been clearer,” Vallaart pointed out, adding that the Dutch office for environmental planning, an IPCC partner, had the exact figures.
They should have been clearer, but based on previous reasoning they were not clearer for political reasons. 55% sounds worse when you discuss their vunerablity to rising seas.
He noted that correcting the error had been “on the agenda several times” but had never actually happened. Vallaart told the AFP that he regretted the fact that proper procedure was not followed, adding that it should not be left to politicians to check the IPCC’s numbers.
On the agenda? You mean like, “Hey dude, your numbers are hosed and you don’t know zib!” “Ok, we will type a one paragraph correction.”
Takes 20 seconds. Unless you have a political agenda….
And finally
The Indian government has established its own body to monitor the effects of global warming because it “cannot rely” on the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the group headed by its own leading scientist Dr R.K Pachauri.