The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a committee of thousands of scientists who advise the international community on the current state of climate research. It is widely considered the leading global authority on climate science.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Quotes in Merchants of Doubt
The Merchants of Doubt quotes below are all either spoken by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) or refer to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Every scientific paper and report has to go through the critical scrutiny of other experts: peer review. Scientific authors are required to take reviewers’ comments and criticisms seriously, and to fix any mistakes that may have been found. It’s a foundational ethic of scientific work: no claim can be considered valid—not even potentially valid—until it has passed peer review.
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Term Timeline in Merchants of Doubt
The timeline below shows where the term Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) appears in Merchants of Doubt. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Introduction
...1988, the United Nations and World Meteorological Organization founded the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Scientists had long known that burning fossil fuels could warm the planet, and by the...
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After the IPCC published its report, a group of physicists at a Washington, D.C. think tank started publicly...
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Chapter 6
In 1995, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that humans were significantly warming the planet. Ten years later, even though virtually all...
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...change, just as they had done for ozone a few years before. They formed the IPCC and named Bert Bolin as its first chair. The administration also began investing in climate...
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In 1990, the IPCC’s first report confirmed that greenhouse gases were the main cause of global warming and explained...
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...global warming. He was also the convening lead author for a chapter in the second IPCC report, which means he was responsible for coordinating with 35 other climate scientists. After an...
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A copy of the IPCC report was leaked before its official meeting, and Republican leaders began attacking Santer’s findings. At...
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At the IPCC meeting, delegates from fossil fuel companies and oil-producing states questioned Santer’s work. The IPCC reached...
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...Seitz publicly accused Santer of fraud in the Wall Street Journal. Santer and 40 other IPCC scientists wrote the Journal to explain that the changes were part of peer review, but...
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Conclusion
...to try to speak for the group. When organizations do publish collective statements (like the IPCC’s lengthy reports), almost nobody reads them.
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