Glaciergate: British science chief wants honesty on climate change

London, Jan.27 (PTI) After 'Glaciergate' and errors in
Climate Change report spawned attacks, UN Climate Chief R K
Pachauri faced demands from Britain's chief scientific adviser
for "more honest" disclosure of the uncertainty of predictions
about the rate of global warming.

John Beddington also said the impact of global warming
has been exaggerated by some scientists.
Another top British scientist Mike Hulme raised
questions whether Pachauri of India should continue to head
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
In the wake of an admission by IPCC that it grossly
overstated the rate at which Himalayan glaciers were receding,
Beddington told 'The Times' that climate scientists should be
less hostile to sceptics who questioned man-made global
warming.
He also condemned scientists who refused to publish the
data underpinning their reports.
Beddington said that public confidence in climate
science would be improved if there were more openness about
its uncertainties, even if that meant admitting that sceptics
had been right on some hotly-disputed issues.
Pachauri's 'voodoo science' remark to slam India's
Environment ministry over the Himalayan glacier issue drew
more flak from another scientist.
Hulme, Professor of Climate Change at the University of
East Anglia, criticised Pachauri for his dismissive response
last November to research by an Indian group suggesting that
the UN body had overstated the threat to the glaciers.
Pachauri described it as "voodoo science".
"Pachauri’s choice of words has not been good. The
question of whether he is the right person to lead the IPCC is
for the 193 countries who make up its governing body. It’s a
political decision." Prof Hulme said. (MORE) PTI GSN
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