Climate chief defends independence. The new head of the world panel assessing climate change rejects
charges that he is pro-oil industry. [BBC News: sci/tech]
bq. He defends the Kyoto Protocol – designed to reduced human influence on the global climate – as being better than nothing, and says the panel’s job is to provide compelling evidence for the need for countries to make new commitments to fight global warming.
I don’t care if someone is pro-oil industry or not. I do think it would be an improvement if a scientist who is not anti-human had the post, but I do not think that is likely.
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