In an attempt to step up the oversight and enforcement of the existing policies of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the organization is working out a strategy whereby the experts producing its high-profile reports will be duly policed, so as to ensure that they abide by scrupulous scientific standards.
The proposed move, by the IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri and other IPCC leaders, comes in the wake of the string of disquieting revelations that led to widespread criticism of the United Nations-sponsored organization, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for its 3000-page report which stated that climate change is "unequivocal" and is "very likely" a result of human activity.
The late-last-year release of over 1,000 emails from the computers of UK-based scientific center, the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, revealed that scientists were trying to hush up the views of skeptics who questioned the so-called `human influence' that the research cited as the cause of climate change.
One of the key contentious revelations of the erroneous IPCC 2007 report was the forecast about the melting of Himalayan glaciers by 2035.
Noting that the IPCC will "leave no stone unturned to come up with a set of measures" that adhere to rigorous scientific standards, Pachauri said: "We certainly don't feel comfortable with the loss of even one iota of trust. We are grappling with this issue."
