Save the Panel on Climate Change!

it seems obvious that the IPCC would need a new chairperson. The IPCC needs to adhere to its own standards for appointing experts and reviewing material that it reports. It needs to make its procedures for appointments more transparent. The IPCC peer-review should be made more robust, with quality assurance overriding deadlines. A formal mechanism should be put in place to correct errors after publication. Such reform will be a large and difficult task. But the credibility of climate science depends upon it.

An opinion article. I don't know about two of the three authors, but the German von Storch is a researcher who is convinced that the temperatures are increasing in the long run, who is also convinced that by far most of this increase is man-made, but who thinks that the time window for what he thinks necessary action is much larger than those of his colleagues he considers to be alarmists. He thinks the IPCC is controlled by scientists who step out of their roles as advisers and become politicians themselves overselling basically sound data.

Wolfgang