Dutch Review Backs UN Climate Panel Report
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First published in Sanctuary Asia,
Vol. 30
No. 7,
July 2010
The Dutch parliament asked for the inquiry after two mistakes were identified in the IPCC's 2007 report.
The inquiry is the latest in a series that have largely backed "mainstream" climate science against detractors.
The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) does not give the panel a completely clean bill of health, however.
Whereas the IPCC's landmark Fourth Assessment (AR4) from 2007 "conclusively shows" that impacts of human-induced climate change are already tangible in many places around the world and will become more serious as temperatures increase, PBL also says the foundation for some of the specific projections "could have been made more transparent". Read the full report here.
Source:Â Richard Black, Environment correspondent, BBC News
