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Scientific Journal Editor Resigns Over Climate Change Denier's Paper

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Dark_Falcon9/03/2011 3:02:59 pm PDT

re: #22 freetoken

Many people misunderstand what the IPCC is or what it does.

It doesn’t do research of its own - it’s not a research institution.

The IPCC primarily does two important things:
1) Summarizes climate research worldwide into documents for consumption by non-specialists in governments and lay people;
2) Coordinates independent researchers worldwide who want to share data and terminology freely.

The IPCC is the stepchild of the WMO, the World Meteorological Organization. If the Tea Party types had their way and got rid of the IPCC not only would climate research not go away, but the exact same functions would just be picked up by other organizations.

They wouldn’t care. They want it gone as a symbolic victory against the “lying scientists”.