IPCC Climate Change Document Uses World Wildlife Fund Report as Evidence

Why is the head of the IPCC still in his job? This mess up is like having Goldman Sachs publishing the GDP data for the US.

A STARTLING report by the United Nations climate watchdog that global warming might wipe out 40% of the Amazon rainforest was based on an unsubstantiated claim by green campaigners who had little scientific expertise.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in its 2007 benchmark report that even a slight change in rainfall could see swathes of the rainforest rapidly replaced by savanna grassland.

Actually Goldman has economists on staff so maybe that is an unfair comparison. Maybe this latest Climate Change screw-up is more like having TMZ publishing the GDP report. If these guys have any credibility left it just got siphoned away. The idea of an environmental pressure group writing part of your Climate Change report is beyond the pale.