WASHINGTON — Scientists reviewing the acclaimed but beleaguered international climate-change panel called Monday for an overhaul in the way it is run but stopped short of calling for the ouster of chairman Rajendra Pachauri.
The InterAcademy Council, a collection of the world’s science academies, outlined a series of “significant reforms” needed by the IPCC, a body that won a Nobel Prize with former Vice President Al Gore in 2007.
Last year, a batch of errors embarrassed the authors of the climate report. The most prominent were statements about glaciers in the Himalayas. The IPCC incorrectly said they were melting faster than others and would disappear by 2035 — hundreds of years earlier than other information suggests.
Denver Post wire services
