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information, concurrent with any publications, to enable others
to replicate their results' (
http://www.cce-review.org/pdf/FINAL%
20REPORT.pdf;
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Some recommendations of the Inter-Academy Council Inquiry into the
IPCC
, August 2010. In a press release, the Council summarised its
report suggestions as follows:
To enhance its credibility and independence, the executive com-
mittee should include individuals from outside the IPCC or even
outside the climate science community.
The IPCC chair and a proposed executive director
...
should be
limited to the term of one assessment in order to maintain a variety
of perspectives and fresh approach to each assessment. Formal
qualifications for the chair
needs to be developed, as should a
rigorous conflict-of-interest policy to be applied to senior IPCC
leadership and all authors, review editors, and staff responsible for
report content.
Review editors [contributing to the IPCC assessment reports]
should also ensure that genuine controversies are reflected in the
report and be satisfied that due consideration was given to properly
documented alternative views. Lead authors should explicitly
document that the full range of thoughtful scientific views has been
considered.
The committee also called for more consistency in how the
Working Groups characterize uncertainty. In the last assessment,
each Working Group used a different variation of IPCC's uncertainty
guidelines, and the committee found that the guidance is not always
followed. The Working Group II report, for example, contains some
statements that were assigned high confidence but for which there is
little evidence.
[A new communications]
...
strategy should emphasize trans-
parency and include a plan for rapid but thoughtful response to
crises. The relevance of the assessments to stakeholders also needs
to be considered, which may require more derivative products that
are carefully crafted to ensure consistency with the underlying assess-
ments.
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Responding to science: avoiding the misuses of
epistemic dependence
We should welcome scepticism in and about science. 'Climate-gate' and
'Glacier-gate' point us to better ways in which scepticism can be insti-
tutionalised in the scientific study of what we call nature. However, the
